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salica'ceje. SA'I.IX.

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Group x. R osmarinifulia Rorrer.

Low Shrubs, with narrow Leaves.

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.Br. FI., ed. 2.)

m 48. S. -SosMARimFo'LiA L. The Rosemary-leaved Willow .

Identification. Lin. Sp. PI., 1448.; Willd. Sp. .PI., 4. p. 697. j Hayne Abbiid., p.244.; Pursh FI.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.

Synonyme. S. rosmarinifdlia, part of, Koch Comm., p. 49.

The Sexes. The female is described in Eng. Fl., 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. PL, and figured in Hayne Abbiid.

Engravings. Hayne Abbiid., 1.186.; Eng. Bot., 1.1365.; Sal. Wob., No. 87.; our fig. 1320.; and.%. 87.in p. 1618.

Spec. Char., $c. 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. Fl., ed. 3.) “Hative of moist sandy or _turfy 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 quarters 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 moresilky 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 Jin. broad at most, and from 1 in. to 2in.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, ?Wulf.

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■“ S. angustifo'lia 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.

S' ar btiscula Smith FL Brit., p. 1050., Eng. Bot., t. 1366., Rees's Cyclopcedia, No. 65.,intlw 1 m? ^ P- IPS., exclusively of the synonymes of Lin., perhaps of other synonymes, ForbesWob., No. 86., not No. 138.; S. posmarinifblia a, Koch Comm. f p. 49. Smith, in his Eng./’deferred & angustifolia Wulf. to S. incub&cea L.\ and Koch has referred S. incubkcea L.™ S. rosmarinifblia L.

has-^e female is described in Eng. Flora, and figured in Eng. Bot. and Sal. Wob. SmithEnov . • d ’ in Flora, that the flowers of the male were unknown to him.

‘gratings. Lng. Bot, 1.1366.; the female, Sal.’Wob., t. 86. j our jig. 1321. ; an A fig. 86. in p. 1618.

Charfy c . Leaves linear-lanceolate, nearly glabrous, with minute glan-ular teeth ; the young leaves silky ,* glaucous beneath. Catkins ovate, erect,vanes ovate-acuminate, densely silky, stalked. Style about as long as theoad, erect, entire stigmas. Bracteas very villous, nearly as long as the young

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