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"DIOECIA DIANNRIA, 603 



Downy Willow. Anglis. 



In the valleys amongft the Highlrinds, as at Fin- 

 larig, at the head of Loch-'Tay^ &ic. h . V. Mr. 

 Siuarf. 



This grows to a fmall tree, fix or eight feet hi»h. 

 The twigs are fmooth, of a reddifli green. The 

 leaves exadlly oval, and entire on the edo-es, 

 about an inch long, and ^-gth of an inch broad, 

 coverfd with white downy hairs, particularly on 

 the under fide, lefs fo on the upper, which by 

 degrees turns green, and lofes moft of its hairs, 

 whilfl; the under fide ftill continus downy. The 

 catkins are oval, an inch long, and thick icr, 

 fupported on fhort, thick, woolly peduncles. 

 The fcales are downy, oval, and of a grey fuf- 

 cous colour. The capfules white and downy. 



It is a matter of great doubt to which fpecics of 

 Lin)i<eiis this can be referred. It partakes botli 

 of his S. glauca and lanata, and agrees not per- 

 fedly with either, but as it fccms clearly to be 

 that kind defcribed by Hallcr^ in his hlifi. Stirp. 

 Hehei. n. 16 ',1, of which he fuppofes ike S. ia- 

 ya(a Lin. to be only a variety, and with the figure 

 of which mine agrre, J have chofe, with that 

 great author, to reduce it to that jpecies, efpe- 

 cially as more or Ids down on tlie leaves of 

 plants is known often to arife only from the ac- 

 Cidents of different fituaC'On and cxpolure. 



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