26o SUB-ALPINE PLANTS 



leaves, which have 5-8 yellow glandular teeth. Leaves lanceolate- 

 elliptical or obovate, entire or serrate, glabrous or slightly hairy 

 when young, dark green and shining above, light green and glaucous 

 beneath. Catkins at apex of short leafy shoots ; scale of catkins 

 2-coloured, brown or blackish at apex. Stamens 2. Anthers yellow. 

 Nectary projecting above the mass of the ovary. Style elongated. 

 Stigmas divaricate. 

 Alpine rocks and pastures. June to August. 



Distribution. — Carpathians, Alps, Pyrenees, Caucasus, Norway, 

 Siberia, Greenland. British. 



Salix Mysinites L. 



A low, much-branched shrub, often quite procumbent though 

 not creeping, and sometimes a foot or more high. Leaves small, 

 orbicular, ovate or lanceolate, bright green, with prominent veins, 

 and finely toothed. With long silky hairs when young, afterwards 

 glabrous. Catkins cylindrical, i inch longer flower, 1J-2 inches 

 when in fruit, on short leafy shoots. 



Damp places in the mountains. June to August. 



Distribution. — Alps, Central Pyrenees, Norway, Northern and 

 Arctic Asia and America. Scotland and Co. Sligo. 



Salix -phylicifolia L. 



A shrub with very variable foliage. Young leaves often downy, 

 becoming glabrous when old ; leaves ovate-oblong to lanceolate, 

 1-2 inches long, pointed, with rather prominent veins above, often 

 toothed, glaucous or whitish underneath. Catkins slender, the 

 males nearly sessile with a few broad bracts at the base ; the 

 females shortly stalked, with more leafy bracts, 1-2 inches long 

 when in fruit. 



Mountain woods, thickets, and near streams. June. 



Distribution. — Alps, Central Pyrenees, and other mountains of 

 Central and Southern Europe. Arctic Europe and Asia, N. Britain. 



Salix repens L. Creeping Willow. 



A low creeping shrub, the stems rooting at the base and ascend- 

 ing to a foot or more in height when in rich soil. Leaves more or 

 less silky white when young, oblong or lanceolate, but very variable, 

 usually entire, about i^ inches long. Catkins cylindrical, about j 

 inch long, and sessile when in flower, afterwards shortly peduncled 

 and an inch long. 



Moors, heaths, and wet mountain-sides. From sea-level in 

 England to the sub-alpine region on the Continent. April, May. 



Distribution. — Arctic, Northern, and Central Europe, and 

 occasionally in the mountains of Southern Europe. Russian Asia. 



