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S A L I X tenuior.
Narow-leaved intermediate Willow.
DICECIA Digynia.
Gen. Char. Male, Cal. a scale of an imbricated
catkin, single-flowered. Cor. none. Nectary
a gland or glands at the base of the stamens.
Stam. 1—5 (or more). Female, Cal. and Nect.
as in the male. Cor. none. Stigmas 2. Caps.
of 1 cell and 2 valves. Seeds tufted.
Spec. Char. Leaves on slender stalks, obovate-lan-
ceolate, acute, obsoletely crenate, flat, naked on
both sides, glaucous beneath. Stipules acute,
glandulose. Catkins slender, lax. Calyx-scales
acute, longer than the silky stalk of the capsule.
Style longer than the ovate stigmas.
B y the river Lochy, near Killin in Breadalbane, whence
the plant that produced the specimens here drawn was
brought in 1810. The flowers appear with us before the
leaves, about the beginning of May.
A shrub of upright growth, with loosely spreading
branches, attaining the height of 15 feet or more. Twigs
pubescent, not deeply tinged with brown. Leaves about
2 inches long, on long, pale, downy, scarcely dilated stalks,
flat, acute at each end, dilated upwards, sprinkled on both
sides when first unfolded, with short appressed hairs, but
soon becoming naked except the mid-rib, dark green and
shining, with slightly sunken veins above, glaucous beneath,
the edges very slightly recurved, the shallow crena-
tures tipped each with a small glandular tooth. Stipules
half-heartshaped, toothed, glandulose both on the edges
and on the disk. Male plant unknown. Female catkins
cylindrical, about an inch long when in flower, afterwards