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SALICA CE®. SA'LIX.

1535

Group x. R osmarinifolice Borrer.

Low Shrubs, with narrow Leaves.

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Stamens 2 to a flower. Ovary silky, stalked. Catkins short. Flowersloosely disposed in the catkin. Leaves linear-lanceolate, entire, or toothedwith extremely minute glanded teeth. Plants small upright shrubs. (Hook.Sr. FI., ed. 2.)

-** 48. S. /(osMARiNiro'LiA L. The Rosemary-leaved Willow.

Identification. Lin, Sp. PI., 1448.; Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 697.; Hayne Abbild., p. 244.; Pursh FJ.Amer. Sept., 2. p. 612.; Smith in Rees’s Cyclo., No. 109. ; Eng. Bot., 1.1365.; Eng. FI., 4. p. 214.;Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 87.; Hook. Br. FI., ed. 3. p. 423.

Synonymc. S. rosmarinifblia, part of, Koch Comm., p. 49.

The Sexes. The female is described in Ena. FI., and figured in Eng. Bot. Smith has noted that hehad not seen the catkins of the male. This is originally described, and both sexes are figured, inSal. Wob. Both are described in Willd. Sp. Pi., and figured in Hayne Abbild.

Engravings. Hayne Abbild., 1.186.; Eng. Bot., 1.1365.; Sal. Wob., No. 87.; our fig. 1320.; andySg. 87.in p. 1618.

Spec. Char., SfC. Leaves linear-lanceolate, silky, quite entire, or with a fewvery minute glanded teeth, especially the young leaves. Catkins shortlyoblong, curved, lax. Ovaries stalked, silky, lanceolate-acuminate. Styleabout as long as the linear divided stigmas. Bracteas short,villous. (Hook. Br. FI., ed. 3.) “ Native of moist sandy orturfy places in Sweden, Germany, and the northern parts ofBritain; flowering in April. Pursh, finding it likewise ‘ in wetmeadows and mountain swamps from Pennsylvania to Ca-rolina,’ presumes that it has been imported thence intoEngland. Our specimens, however, accord exactly withthe Finland ones of Linnaeus, and the German one ofEhrhart, so that it seems common to both quarteis of theworld.” ( Smith in Rees's Cyclo.') flowering in April andMay. A slender upright shrub, 2 ft. or 3 ft. high; allied inits habits (silky silvery foliage, and short ovate catkins) toS. angustifolia ? Wulf., Borrer, Hooker; but much more 1320silky or downy; and the catkins, at first, are singularly recurved. Thebranches are upright, very slender, round, silky when young. Leavesscattered, on short slender stalks, nearly upright, straight, linear-lanceolate,acute, hardly ever more than Ain. broad at most, and from 1 in. to 2 in.long; entire, sometimes beset with a few marginal glands ; the upper surfacesilky when young, but soon becoming glabrous and veiny, of a rather lightgreen, scarcely blackened in drying; under surface glaucous, and at everyperiod more or less silky. Catkins lateral; at first drooping, ovate, andvery short, but, as they advance, becoming more erect. The ovaries of thisspecies are smaller, and more awl-shaped, than in S. angustifolia Borrer,Hooker, fWulf.

j* _* 49. S. angcstifo'i.ia Borrer, Hooker, ? Wulf. The narrow-leaved Willow.

Identification. Borrer and Hook, in Hook. Br. FL, ed. 2., p. 417.; ? Wulf. in Jacq. Coll., 3. 48.

Synonymes. S. arbuscula Smith FI. Brit., p. 1050., Eng. Bot., t. 1366., Rees's Cyclopedia, No. 65.,Eng. Flora, 4. p. 198., exclusively of the synonymes of Lin., perhaps of other synonymes, Forbesin Sal. Wob., No. 86., not No. 188.; S. rosmarmifblia a. Koch Comm,, p. 49. Smith, in his Eng.Flora, has referred S. angustifolia Wulf. to S. incubkcea L. ; and Koch has referred S. incubicea L.to S. rosmarinifblia L.

The Sexes. The female is described in Eng. Flora, and figured in Eng. Bot. and Sal. Wob. Smithhas noted, in Eng. Flora, that the flowers of the male were unknown to him.

Engravings. Eng. Bot., t. 1366.; the female, Sal.JWob., t. 86.; our^fg. 1321. ; and fig. 86. in p. 1618.

Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves linear-lanceolate, nearly glabrous, with minute glan-dular teeth ; the young leaves silky; glaucous beneath. Catkins ovate, erect.Ovaries ovate-acuminate, densely silky, stalked. Style about as long as thebroad, erect, entire stigmas. Bracteas very villous, nearly as long as the young

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