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DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Salix. 
(In the Sand Burrows at Langhorn, Carmarthenshire. Mr. Hurlock. 
Bot. Guide. A little north of Sandown Castle, plentifully, and about 
Walmer Castle; and on Water-down Forest, near Tunbridge Wells. 
Mr. J. Woods, jun. ditto. Near Percy’s Cross, Northumberland. Winch 
Guide. S. W. coast of Anglesey. Welsh Bot. E.) S. May—July. 
(33. S. prostra'ta. Leaves elliptic-oblong, convex, rarely toothed, 
with a curved point; glaucous, veiny, and silky beneath: stem 
prostrate : stipulte minute : style shorter than the stigmas. 
E. Bot. 1959. 
Stems forming an entangled mat, most of the branches long, straight, and 
tough, spreading on the ground; some few short ones standing erect ; 
all are leafy, round, finely downy when young. Leaves scattered, on 
shortish thick stalks, scarcely an inch long, somewhat recurved ; above 
dark, minutely downy, veiny, convex. Stipules rare and small, merely 
little glands. Catkins egg-shaped, blunt, dense, silky. Scales with 
a blunt, brown' tip. Germen egg-shaped, silky, somewhat stalked. 
Style short and thick. Stigmas cloven. E. Bot. 
Prostrate Dwarf Willow. In moist mountainous situations, found by 
Mr. Dickson in Scotland; and by Mr. E. Forster, near High Beech, 
on Epping Forest. On Broadwater Common, near Tunbridge Wells. 
Mr. J. Woods, jun. in Bot. Guide. (Near the Land’s End, Cornwall: 
and by the coal-pits on Bovey Heathfield, Devon. Rev. J. Pike Jones. 
On Porland heath, near Norwich. Mr. Crowe. S. March. April. E.) 
(34. S. fus'ca. Leaves elliptic-oblong, acute, straight, flat, with a few 
glandular teeth, glaucous and silky beneath : foot-stalks slender: 
stem erect, much branched: stipulas none. E. Bet. 
E. Bot. I960—El. Lapp. Ed. 2. 299. t. S.f. r. 
Upright, bushy, about a foot high, not creeping, as far as we can observe 
from cultivating it many years, though Linnaeus says otherwise. Branches 
round, downy when young, thickly clothed with leaves. Buds large, 
egg-shaped, red and shining. Leaves scarcely an inch long, in drying 
they turn black or brown. Catkins egg-shaped, short and dense, with 
brown hairy obtuse scales. Anthers red before they burst. Nectary egg- 
shaped, brown. S. repens is best distinguished from this species by its 
creeping stem, the leaves being not always entire. FI. Brit, and E. Bot. 
Brownish Dwarf Willow. S. fusca. Linn. S. repens S Hook. Not 
rare in moist mountainous heaths of the North. In Breadalbane. Rev. 
Mr. Stuart. In Epping Forest, Essex. Mr. E. Forster, jun. in Bot. 
Guide. Near Southampton. Pulteney. Common on heaths about 
London. Mr. J. Woods, jun. in Bot. Guide. Pastures near Shewing 
Shields, Northumberland. Mr. Winch. Near Beverley. Teesdale. 
S. May. E.) 
(35. S. fce'tida. Leaves elliptical, nearly entire, with a recurved point, 
glaucous and silky beneath: stem recumbent: germen ovate- 
lanceolate, on a silky stalk nearly equal to the obovate scale. 
E. Bot. 1962. 
A low creeping shrub, with long, straight, densely leafy, recumbent, or 
somewhat ascending, round, downy branches ; silky when young. Sti¬ 
pulas revolute, convex, silky, occasionally notched; sometimes small, 
lanceolate. Catkins lateral, sessile, with two or three small branches ; 
