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DIOECIA DIANDKIA. 605 



Rait Syn- p. 447. w. 3. /. 19. /. 3. meior. Oed. 

 Dan. t. 197. qua pro S. arenaria ponitur cum nof- 

 trd non concordat, nee. Halkr hifi. p. 195. t. 14. 

 n. iS ^2, folia enim nimis lanceolata.) 



Sand Willow. Anglis. .' < .• ■- 



Upon the Tea fliores amongft loofe blowing fand, as 

 in Cantire^ between MacrianeJJj and Bar, Sic. 

 %. V. 



The fpecics we mean is an liumble, diffufe, prof- 

 trate Ihrub, feldom above two feet high. The 

 leaves are of a thick fubfiance, alternate, and 

 elliptical, the largeft an inch lung, and half an 

 inch wide, tiie fmalleft three quarters of an inch 

 long, and a quarter of an inch wide, l^hey are 

 covered with white lilken hairs on both fides, 

 but particularly fo on the under fide. The dajk 

 green colour of the upper furfacc appears thro' 

 the hairs. At tlie bafe of the leaves are fome- 

 times found Un^iW JlipuLf, but they are generally 

 without tiiem. The fcales and caplules are 

 hoary. 



So obfcure are the defcriptions of authors, that k 

 is doubtful whether the plant above propofcd be 

 the lame which Linnaus intends by his S. /Ire- 

 naria, tho' it certainly is the kind which Dille- 

 nius terms Salix pumila follis utrinq. candicanti- 

 hus 13 lanuginofis. Kaii Synops. p. j^j^-j. n. _:?, and 

 which we believe to be only a variety of the fol- 

 lowing, arifing from fituation and foik 



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