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stalks of the same length. Leaves roundish, or egg-shaped, very mi¬ 
nutely serrated; the largest nearly one inch diameter; blunt, or slightly 
notched at the end; smooth; on leaf-stalks. Hardly to be called her¬ 
baceous; it is rather hard and woody. Hoffm. Prof. Hooker remarks 
that this most diminutive Willow is in fact not quite so small as is gene¬ 
rally supposed, for its stems divide and creep below the surface of the 
earth, while the branches scarcely rise an inch above. Germen large, 
but soon ripening and shedding its seeds, which are furnished with their 
silky or comale appendages. FI. Scot. 
(Least Willow. E.) Herbaceous Willow. On the sides of Snowdon, 
and on the mountains of Westmoreland, Yorkshire, and Scotland. (Near 
the summit of Carnedd Llewelyn; and about Bwlch Glas ascending 
Snowdon. Mr. Griffith. E.) Summit of Skiddaw, at the height of 3,000 
feet: and on other mountains in the north. Mr. Woodward. (On 
a mountain called the Beacon, near Brecon. Mr. Jones, in Bot. Guide. 
Summit of Saddleback. Hutchinson. On Ingleborough, Yorkshire. 
Teesdale. Ben Lomond and Ben Lawers. Mr. Winch. E.) S. June—July.* 
( 2 ) Leaves perfectly entire, smooth , or nearly so. 
29* S. reticula'ta. (Leaves elliptic-orbicular, obtuse, entire, smooth, 
reticularly veined, glaucous beneath : germen sessile, downy. E.) 
Hoffm. Sal. ii. 25, 26, 27— (E. Bot. 1908. E.)— J. B. i. b. 217. S. pum. 
fol. rot. — FI. Dan. 212. leaves only— FI. Lapp. 7. 1 and Z—Ih. 8. 1. 
A shrub, not much more than a finger’s length, procumbent. Barren Catkin 
mostly terminal, rather woolly, an inch long, on a long, slender fruit- 
stalk. Stamens two. Nectary double. Fertile Catkin terminal, seldom 
more than one on a branch, cylindrical, rather longer than the barren; on 
a very long fruit-stalk. Leaves on leaf-stalks, egg-shaped, or elliptical, 
either pointed, or rounded, or notched at the end; thick, rigid, very 
entire, when fully grown smooth on both sides, but marked with a net¬ 
work of veins. Hoffm. Large in proportion to the plant. (When culti¬ 
vated, forming a beautiful tuft of considerable extent. Hook. E.) 
Net-work Willow. (Wrinkled Willow. E.) Mountains in Wales, 
Yorkshire, Cumberland, and Scotland. (Near the summit of Carnedd 
Llewelyn; rocks on the N. side of Penmaen Mawr, and of Llandidno, 
Carnarvonshire. Mr. Griffith. On Ingleborough, Yorkshire. Ray. At 
Tyne Head; in many places at Alston, Gray stock, and Abbey Holm, 
Cumberland. Hutchinson. On Ben Lawers. Mr. Winch; who affirms 
that this plant has never been found in the north of England, large spe¬ 
cimens of S. herbacea having been mistaken for it. E.) S. May. 
(3) Leaves hairy or woolly. 
(30. S. arena (ria. Leaves nearly entire, egg-shaped, acute, reticulated 
and somewhat downy above, very woolly and veiny beneath: 
style as long as the densely woolly germen: stigmas linear, 
deeply divided, the length of the style. 
E. Bot. 1809. 
A stout, branched, bushy shrub, two to four feet high, with reddish brown 
* Horses and cattle are fond of it. (As also, may be presumed, is the Ptarmigan, 
this most diminutive of shrubs, “ minima inter omnes arboresLinnn. being called 
in Lapland, according to Wallenberg, Ptarmigan-leaf. E.) 
