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S A LIX philly reifolia.
Phillyrea - leaved Willow.
DICECIA Diandria,
Gen. Char. Male, Cal. a scale of an imbricated
catkin, single-flowered. Cor. none. Nect. 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. Caps, of 1 cell and
2 valves. Seeds tufted.
Spec. Char. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, acute at each
end, strongly serrated, naked on both sides ;
glaucous beneath. Stipules small. Young
shoots pubescent. Calyx-scales oblong, hairy,
longer than the naked stalk of the naked germen.
Style as long as the stigmas.
G a t h e r e d in Highland valleys of Scotland, particularly
in Glen Tarfe near Fort Augustus, Inverness-shire,
and in the vicinity of BenLawers, Perthshire, in 1810; since
which time our male plant has been growing along with
S. bicolor of Ehrhart, and S. Croweana, and has become
an upright much branched shrub, of about 5 feet high,
scarcely half the height of those two species, flowering
two or three weeks earlier, about the middle of April, and
sometimes again at Midsummer.
Twigs straight, yellowish green, closely but inconspicuously
pubescent whilst young. Leaves scarcely more than an
inch long, on slender stalks of about one-third their length,
acute at each end, mostly a little twisted towards the point;
of a bright shining full green above, with the nerves and
veins very slightly sunk; the underside blueish; both sides