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S A L I X Borreriana.
Borrerian Willow.
DICECIA Diandria.
Gen. Char. Male, Cal. a scale of an imbricated catkin,
single-flowered. Cor. none. Nectary a
gland at the base of the stamina. Stam. I—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 lanceolate, with shallow nearly
even serratures, very smooth ; glaucous beneath.
Stipules lanceolate, small. Branches erect. Scales
of the catkins acute, shaggy.
Syn. Salix Borreriana. Sm. Engl. FI. v. 4. 174.
MUCH branched shrub, decumbent at the base only,
about ten feet high; large branches ash-coloured; twigs
numerous, short, spreading or ascending, not flexuose,
tinged with red at first, with obscure lines of down, soon
becoming smooth and shining, and assuming a deep mahogany
hue. Buds large, compressed, of as dark a hue as the
twigs, or darker, shining, though copiously sprinkled with
appressed hairs. Leaves spirally scattered at short distances,
usually four in a set, about two inches long and half an
inch wide, carinate, twisted, lanceolate, tapering gradually
to each end, somewhat unequally divided by the midrib,
which is minutely downy on the upper surface ; texture
firm ; nerves and veins sunken above, prominent beneath;
upper surface dark green and shining, under-side glaucous ;
both sides perfectly smooth, or .with a few scattered silky
hairs on each, on luxuriant young shoots, in which case the
shoot itself is downy all over; edges somewhat cartilaginous,
seldom at all recurved, closely crenate or notched
with shallow, flat, or slightly waved, gland-pointed teeth.