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the barren ones shorty ovate, dense, with obovate, bearded, brown-edged 
scales; fertile rather larger, and subsequently more oblong, with several 
small, ovate, acute bracteas ; their scales longer, brown in the upper half. 
Style short. Stigma thick, cloven. 
Var. 2. S. parvifolia. E. Bot. 1961. Smaller in every part than the other 
more common kind. Branches more recumbent. Leaves shorter. Both 
are distinguishable by a nauseous scent like that of fresh water fish or 
aquatic herbs. Found at East Winch, and in Wrongay fen, Norfolk; 
by Mr. Crowe. ✓ S. May. Sm. Eng. FI. E.) 
Fishy Willow. S. adscendens. E. Bot. Putney heath; in a wood by West 
Wickham, and at Addington, near Croydon. Dillenius. Porland heath, 
near Norwich. Mr. Crowe. 
(36. S. re'pens. Leaves egg-spear-shaped, somewhat pointed; smooth 
above, silky underneath, very entire: stem depressed. FI. Brit. 
E.) 
Hoffm. Sal. i. 15 and 16— E. Bot. 183— Clus. i. 85— Bod. 843. 2— Ger. Em. 
1391. 6—Park. 1433. 2. and 3—Ger. 1205. 6— J. B. i. b. 216. 2. 
Scarcely larger than S. herbacea, the points only of the branches appearing 
above ground. Linn. Root thick, creeping, knotty, wrinkled, blackish. 
Branches , some trailing, others upright, from three to seven inches long, 
tough, knotty, smooth, reddish, or dirty green yellow when old, greyish 
and cottony when young. Hoffm. Barren Catkins about half an inch 
long, and one quarter broad. Fertile Catkins rather smaller. Leaves 
half to three quarters of an inch long, one fifth of an inch broad, strap- 
spear-shaped. (Greatly resembling S.fusca , but the long-stalked, very 
downy, bluntish germen, and short style , contrasted with the sessile 
germen of that species, tapering into a longish style, clearly distinguish 
them. Sm. E. 
Creeping Dwarf Willow. (Welsh: Cor Helygen; Helygen y cwm. E.) 
S. repens (3 Huds. a Hook. S. humilis. Ger. Em. 1391. St. S. depressa. 
Hoffm. Wet sandy heaths, not uncommon. S. April—May. 
Var. 2. S. repens a Huds. Clus. i. 86. 2—Ger. Em. 1391. 8—Park. 
1435. 3. Either this or a variety of it, with leaves silvery on both sides, 
was found near Sandwich. R. Syn. 
37- S. rosmarinifo'lia. Erect; leaves strap-spear-shaped, pointed, 
(straight, entire; silky beneath; catkins ovate, recurved; germen 
stalked, lanceolate, silky. 
E. Bot. 1365. E.)— Lob. Obs. 568, 1. Ic. ii. 137. 2— Park. 1435. 4— J. B. i. 
b. 214. 2. 
(About three feet high, divided into many slender, leafy branches, silky 
when young. Leaves on short slender stalks, straight, an inch and a half 
or more in length, sometimes a little grandular at the edge; downy above 
when young, smooth, and dark green with age. Leaf-scales very 
upright, flat, spear-shaped, rarely divided. Catkins lateral, nearly 
sessile, egg-shaped, very short, remarkable for being always recurved. 
Scales elliptical, small, black, hairy. Germen on a longish stalk, egg- 
spear-shaped, silky. Stigmas almost black, egg-shaped, at length 
cloven, with a shortish style. FI. Brit, and E. Bot. E.) 
Rosemary-leaved Willow. S. repens s Huds. Found among Mr. J. 
Sherard’s dried plants, the place not named. R. Syn. On the edge of a 
rivulet which runs into Semer Water, Wensleydale, Yorkshire. Curtis. 
