414 EOTANV. [APE. N* II. 
if its characters are sufficient to separate it, as a 
species from E. alpinum. 
86. Carex. —This is in too early a state for me to speak 
with certainty as to its species; but I apprehend 
it to be C. saxatilis of Linnaeus and Wahl. FI. 
Lapponica. This, again, is hardly different from 
C. rigida of English Botany , which I have, in 
Flora Scotica, reduced to a var. of C. caspitosa. 
37. Salix -two plants. No doubt tire male and fe¬ 
male of the same species of Salix; but, although 
they do not accord accurately with any specimens or 
descriptions to which I have access, yet, 'without 
more numerous individuals, and in different stages 
of growth from Greenland, than are here present, 
I should not dare to constitute them a new species. 
They belong to the division of Wahlenberg, 
“ Germinibus sessilibus,*’ and to the subdivision 
“ Germinibus villosisand the species to which 
they come the nearest in the Flora of that author, 
are the S. glauca and S. limosa *■ They differ 
from both in the form and villosity of the leaves, 
and from the former still more decidedly, in the 
long style which supports the stigma. The fol¬ 
lowing description may be worth noting: e< Fru- 
tex parva, cortice pallide fusca, nitida. Folia ob- 
ovata, vel elliptica, non raro rotundata, utrinque 
pilosiuscula, juniora valde pilosa, sericea; supra 
viridia, inferne pallidiora subglaucescentia, minime 
tomentosa (ut in S. limosa ). Amenta mascula 
elliptica. Squama rotundata;, subemarginata;, fus- 
cm, pilosa;, pills longis, sparsis, sericeis. Stamina 
S. arenaria, Smith. 
