64 
DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Salix. 
purplish. Much resembling S. phylicifolia. Brought from Scotland by 
the late Mr. G. Anderson. Sm. E.) 
(17. S, arbus'cula. Leaves spear-shaped, somewhat serrated, smooth, 
semi-transparent, glaucous underneath: stem rather woody : 
germens very silky, stalked: (catkins egg-shaped, erect. E. Bot. 
E -) 
E. Bot . 1366— FI. Lapp. t. 8 .f. e. and m. leaves only . 
Edges of some leaves smooth, and others serrated on the same plant. (Stem 
erect, slender, about one foot high, naked below like a little tree. Leaves 
on very short stalks, spear-shaped, varying in breadth, flat, finely 
veined; when young silky, but afterwards quite smooth above and 
nearly so below. Stipulas none, except sometimes on very luxuriant 
radical shoots, where they are small, lanceolate, flat. On such shoots 
the leaves become quite ovate and very broad. Catkins lateral, nearly 
sessile, erect, egg-shaped, short. Scales oblong, notched, purplish, hairy. 
Germen silky, egg-spear-shaped, on a short stalk. Stigmas broad, egg- 
shaped, tawny, with a very short style. E. Bot. E.) 
Little Thee Willow. First discovered in Scotland by Dr. Walker, and 
lately found on the banks of the river Isla in Angus-shire, and at the 
foot of Ben Lawers by Mr. Brown. Banks of the Nith, twenty miles 
above Dumfries. Maughan, in Hook. Scot. P. April. E.) 
18. S. liv'ida. Leaves oblong, nearly entire, smooth, livid beneath; 
germens pedicellate, somewhat silky ; stigmas nearly sessile, two 
lobed. 
Wahl. Lapp. t. 16. /. 6. 
Glabrous every where, and even shining; about one foot high; branches 
divergent, almost deflexed, brownish. Leaves oblongo-rhomboid, broader 
upwards, acuminate at each extremity, livid rather than glaucous 
beneath. Scales not so long as the pedicel , shortly pubescent. Wah- 
lenburg. 
Livid Dwarf Willow. Lowlands of Scotland. Dr. Hooker. At the 
foot of Hertfell, near Moffat. Mr. Maughan. Hook. Scot. S. E.) 
19. S. vitelli'na. Leaves egg-spear-shaped, acute, smooth above: 
serralures cartilaginous: (leaf-scales small and deciduous: 
stigmas notched. E. Bot. E.) 
(E. Bot. 1389. E.)— Hoffim. Sal. i. 11 and 12; foliage 24. 1— Munt. 12— 
Fuchs. 33 5. 
A middle sized tree; much branched at the top. Branches upright, (re¬ 
markably yellow. E.) Bark of the tree grey, inclined to crack, cin¬ 
namon-coloured within, bitter and astringent. The Fertile Plants when 
left to themselves, have pendent branches, but when lopped, stiff and 
straight. Barren Catkins at first upright, afterwards reflexed; cylin¬ 
drical, slender, serpentine, two inches long, or more; on fruit-stalks half 
an inch long. Stamens two. Nectaries two. Fertile Catkins two or 
three inches long, on fruit-stalks one to one inch and a half long. Leaves 
alternate, upright, slightly serrated; mid-rib yellowish; about three 
inches long and one broad, but always broader in the fertile plant. 
Hoffm, 
Yellow Willow. Golden Osier. (Welsh: Merhelygen. E.) Osier 
holts frequent. (Mr. Crowe observed it abundant and certainly native in 
