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SALIX 
10. SALIX LAPPONUM. Lapland Willow. Plates 35; 36, 37, 38, 39, 40 
Salix lapponum L. Sp. PI. 1019 (1753) including 5 . arenaria\ Lightfoot FI. Scot, ii, 604 (1777); Syme 
Eng. Bot. viii, 252 (1868); 5 . limosa Wahlenberg FI. Lapp. 265 (1812); A. et G. Camus Classif. Saul. 147 
(1904); v. Seemen in Ascherson und Graebner Syn. iv, 182 (1909); Rouy FI. France xii, 200 (1910). 
leones: — Smith Eng. Bot. t. 1809, as S. arenaria\\ t. 1810, as S. glauca\\ t. 2586, as S', stuartiana 1 ! ; 
Forbes Sal. Woburn, t. 70, as S. arenaria\ t. 68?, as S. glauca ; t. 72, as S. stuartiana ; t. 73; Reichenbach, 
Icon. t. 572, fig. 2016 [1216]; Hartig Forst. Culturpfl. t. 108 (35 e) as S. lapponum var. arenaria\ FI. Dan. t. 1058; 
A. et G. Camus op. cit., Atlas t. 12, fig. A — E. 
Camb. Brit. FI. ii. Plate jp. (a) Shoot with staminate catkins. ( b ) Shoot with pistillate catkins. 
(c) Barren shoot. ( d ) Staminate flower (enlarged), (e) Pistillate flowers (enlarged). (/) Bract (enlarged). 
Hort. ; from a plant raised by Mr Hunnybun from cuttings sent by the Rev. E. F. Linton. 
Exsiccata : — Fries, vii, 58; Leefe, 90, as S. arenaria ; E. F. et W. R. Linton, 45; Herb. FI. Ingric. 
'v, 573 - 
Undershrub, up to about a metre or a metre and a half in height. Branches numerous, 
short, straight, pubescent when young, glabrous or nearly so when mature. Stipules usually 
caducous. Petioles distinct, often about a sixth as long as the laminae, more or less hairy when 
young. Laminae elliptical or oblong-elliptical, rounded or subcuneate at the base, margins usually 
entire, sometimes wavy, acute to subacute, about 2*5 to 3^5 cm. long and ro to 1 ‘4 broad, 
upper surface often with silky hairs especially when young, lower surface grey with silky hairs. 
Catkins subsessile or on short peduncles, not leafy at the base, broadly elliptical, about 2*5 to 
3 - o cm. long, dense-flowered, odorous, appearing a little before the leaves; late May and June; 
July and August. Bracts oblong, oval or ovate, with numerous long white hairs, whitish towards 
the base, dark brown at least towards the summit. Nectary long, linear, yellow. Filaments 
glabrous, tending to be connate at the base. Anthers dull yellow. Style usually long. Stigmas 
rather long, entire or more or less bifid, yellowish. Capsules 
subsessile or shortly pedicelled, very hairy; July — August. 
Wet rocks and rocky banks of streams in Alpine and sub- 
Alpine localities ; from Westmorland and southern Scotland north- 
wards to Sutherlandshire ; ascending to about 915 m. and descending 
to about 213 m. in Perthshire. 
Northern and Arctic Europe (northwards to about 71° N.), 
mountains of central Europe (ascending to about 1050 m.), central 
Russia ; Asia to the Altai Mountains. 
S', arbuscula x lapponum (see page 40). 
«S. auvita x lapponum Wimmer in Denksckr. Settles. Gesellsch. 
166 (1853)! ; White in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxvii, 429 (1890); A. et G. Camus 
Classif. Saul, ii, 147 ( 1 905 ) ; v. Seemen in Ascherson und Graebner Syn. 
iv, 276 (1909) ; S. obtusifolia Willdenow Sp. PI. iv, 705 (1805) ; S', laestadiana 
var. opaca f. subaurita Andersson in DC. Prodr. xvi, pt. ii, 278 (1868). 
leones '.—Camb. Brit. FI. ii. Plate j 6 . (a) Shoot with staminate 
catkins, (b) Leaves. ( c ) Staminate flowers, (d) Staminate flowers (en- 
larged). Hort. (Rev. E. F. Linton). The leaves are larger than in the wild 
plants. 
Exsiccata : — E. F. et W. R. Linton, 37 ; herb. Marshall, 703, 705, 707, 
2956 ; Schultz, xxv, 2484. 
Dwarf shrub. Young branches and buds pubescent at least 
when young. Stipules caducous or not, dentate. Petioles about 1 cm. 
long or rather more. Laminae broadly elliptical, acute to ovate, Map 7 ' Britain** la i > h onum 
margin subentire, apex acute, more or less pubescent especially 
underneath. Staminate catkins broadly elliptical, about 2 cm. long, appearing a little before the 
leaves, on short peduncles rather leafy at the base. Bracts hairy. Filaments rather long. Pistillate 
1 After the Rev. Dr John Stuart (1777 — 1805) who “first gave us a specimen of it, in August, 1782, from his garden 
at Luss [Dumbartonshire], as the male plant of Lightfoot’s A. lapponum" (Smith, Eng. Bot. no. 2586). 
