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S A L I X Doniana.
Donian Willow.
DIOECIA Eiandria.
Gen. Char. Male, Cal. a scale of an imbricated
catkin, single-flowered. Cor. none. Nectary a
gland at the base of the stamina. Stam. 1—5.
Female, Cal. and Nect. as in the male. Cor.
none. Stigmas 2, Caps, of 1 cell and 2 valves.
Seeds tufted.
Spec. Char. Leaves partly opposite, obovate-lanceo-
late, acute, slightly serrated, even ; livid and somewhat
silky beneath. Stipules linear. Branches
erect. Catkins erect, cylindrical. Germen stalked,
silky, longer than the obovate scale.
S y n . Salix Doniana. Sm. Engl. FI. v. 4. 213.
_A_LL that we know of this remarkable willow is derived
from a plant communicated, as British, by the late Mr. Don
to the late Mr. G. Anderson. In many points, as observed
in the English Flora, it resembles Salix 'purpurea, t. 1388;
but, although we want the proof which the male flowers
would afford, we believe it placed correctly in that work
with the affinities of S.fusca, and next to S', incubacea.
Shrub six feet high, or a little more, branched from the
base. Branches procumbent at their origin, then upright;
straight and wand-like at first; afterwards producing numerous
small twigs; silky whilst very young, Soon denu-
dated, of a greenish ash-colour, sometimes tinged with purple
old bark grey, not so remarkably yellow within as in
the monandrous species. Buds red, slightly downy. Leaves
on short broadish footstalks, some of the lower ones in
pairs, the rest spirally scattered ; those on the strong shoots
about an inch and a half long, those on the small twigs not
more than half that length ; the edges a little recurved, en