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LXXXV. SALICACE^. 



L^dlix. 



on the autumnal shoots. Shrubs 1 — 6 feet high, with numerous > 

 gular crooked branches and hairy young shoots, Hastatse Borr, 



37. S.'^hastdta L. (Apple-leaved W,); leaves broadly ellm 

 tical waved thin and crackling quite glabrous usually serrulat 

 stipules heart-shaped serrate about as long as the petiolo' 

 catkins clothed with silvery hairs, ovaries distinctly stalkpri' 

 S. malifolia Sm. : E. B. t. 1617. ^• 



Sands of Barrie, near Dundee, Scotland. Norfolk? T7, 5 ^ 

 It is most improbable that this plant, which is truly alpine on the 

 Continent, growing in Switzerland only at great elevations, should be 

 even naturalized upon the sands of Barrie, where Drummond met 

 with it: the Norfolk station is entirely hypothetical, and equallv 

 unlikely. Stem usually 1 — 2 feet high when growing on the Alps 

 sometimes, however, rising to the height of 6 feet, as in our gardens* 

 Remarkable for its broadly elliptical, shortly accuminate glabrous 

 leaves^ large stipules, and very shaggy compact catkins, about If inch 

 long. Wahlenberg, Seringe, and Mr. Borrer unite in considerino- 

 S. malifolia Sm. as only a state of S, hastata L., with a more att 

 tenuated base to the leaf; the first of these indeed says (Fl, Lapp 

 p. ^6^.^ that all forms of the leaf, between roundish with a cordate base 

 and lanceolate, may be observed on the same plant; and this is 

 confirmed by Mr, Forbes, who received from Sir J. E. Smith plants 

 of S. malifolia, and found that the leaves of their vigorous shoots 

 became cordate. 



38. S. landta L. {woolly Iroad-leaved TT.) ; leaves broadly 

 oval pointed entire shaggy, stipules oval pointed entire, barren 

 catkins clothed with yellow silky hairs, ovaries almost quite 

 sessile, E. B. S. t. 2624. " ' , ^, -^ 



S. caprea FL Dan. t. 245. 



Scottish mountains, rare. Glen Dole, Whitewater, Canlochan, 

 and Glen Callater, all in the Clova mountains, Angusshire; Meal- 

 Cuachlar, 8 m. W. of Killin. P^ . 5, 6.— About 2 (or when cul- 

 tivated 3) feet high, with large pale-grayish shaggy foliage, and ca^ 

 kins that may be reckoned among the handsomest of the genus. 

 This species Wahlenberg considers the most beautiful in Sweden, if 

 not in the whole world. '* The splendid golden catkins;' he justly 

 observes, '^at the ends of the young branches, light up, as it were, 

 the whole shrub, and are accompanied by the tender foliage, spark- 

 ling with gold and silver." Style never cloven to the base, as it 

 is incorrectly represented in Fl. Dan. t. 1057 : the stigmas are 

 usually entire, but are sometimes cloven on the same specimen, so 

 that Fl. Dan. t. 245, represents well some states of this plant. Sta- 

 mens mostly 2, but occasionally 3 ; filaments quite distinct in our 

 specimens, but we believe they have been sometimes observed more 

 or less combined. Stipules towards the extremity of the autumnal 

 shoots often longer than the petiole, but lower down, sometimes not 



S. chrysantha FL Dan. t. 1057. 



half as long. 



We have doubts if S. lanata of G. Don belongs to this 



species ; in our specimen received from him neither flower nor leaves 

 are sufficiently developed, and we incline to refer it to S. arenaria. 



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