. DIOECIA DIANDKIA. ^oi 



I have gathered a variety of this plant nine inchrs 



high, with leaves, ionie of them as laroe as 



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lliiUing. It puts on this appear.:ncc when jc 

 grows out of the crevices of the rocks, and xS 

 very old. . .', ,-. • ., ■ ; 



** FoUis glahris inte^errimis. 



reticulata 8 SALIX foliis inregerrlmis glabris ovatis obtufis. 

 Sp. pi. 1446. {Fior. Lappon. 359. /. 8. / L. Cff 

 /• 7 /. I. 2. Ocd. Dn7i. t. 212.) 

 Wrinkled Willow. Jjtglis. 



It grov/s upon many of the Highland mountains, 

 in a taiky foil, as upon Creg-chailUcb, M&i- 

 ghyrdy^ and Mal-grea mountains, in Ereadsihaney 



bcc, n. V, VI. ■ 



1 he branches are about a finger's length, and fpread 

 proltrate on the ground. The leaves are thjcl:^ 

 obtufcly oval, or nearly circular, little more 

 t.'ian half an inch in diameter, reticulated wiih 

 wrinkles -, when young covered v.irh white Ijiky 

 hairs, efpccially underneath, bit fmootl) when 

 old, and then green on the upper iide, and glau- 

 '" ■■' . ' ■' cous on the lower. Three arife from a geni„ 

 lupported each on footftalks. The catl'Jn fpriog.s 

 from the fame 2;em as tiie leaves, ilandinrr on a 

 thick downy peduncle. The fcales are obruje, 

 concave, and do^vny, the capfules downy. The 

 ^, , jlnnii'ta 2-i (he ^^fZ/vr^- Hefli-colcured. 



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