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S A L I X tenuifolia.
Thin-leaved Willow.
DICECIA Diandria.
Gen. ( ■HARi Male, Cal. a scale of an imbricated catkin,
single-flowered. Cor. none. Nect. a gland
or glands at the base of the stamens. Siam. I—
5 (or more). Female, Cal. and Nect. as in the
male. Cor. none. Caps, of 1 cell and 2 valves.
Seeds tufted.
Spec. Char. Upright. Young shoots and leaf-stalks
densely pubescent. Leaves elliptical or oblong,
flat, with a recurved point, crenate, reticulated
with sunken veins, slightly hairy; glaucous beneath.
Stipules half heart-shaped. Catkins on
a short stalk. Bracteas small. Calyx-scale oblong,
shaggy. Germen naked, on a naked stalk.
Style as long as the stigmas.
Syn. Salix tenuifolia. “ Linn. FI. Lapp. ed. 2.292.
t. 8. f . e.” Sm. FI. Brit. 1052* Engl. FI. v. 4.
179. (excl. syn. Engl. Bot.) Hook. Brit. FI.
ed. 2. 426. Forbes, Sal. Woburn. 99. t. 50.
! F r OM plants brought in 1810 from Kirkby Lonsdale
Bridge, where Sir J. E. Smith observed the species in 1783.
It is on his high authority that it is regarded as the S. tenuifolia
of Linnaeus, for we could not venture to decide on
the imperfect original specimen in the Linnaean herbarium,
nor on the description in Flora Lapponica. The figure in
that work represents only a floral leaf, and that unlike any
that we have seen on our plant.
A much branched spreading shrub, ten or twelve feet
high. Twigs very downy when young, afterwards bare, or
nearly so, and shining, green, or tinged, especially in the
female plant, with brown. Leaf-stalks downy, spreading,
rather long, dilated at the base. Leaves by no means remarkably
thin, ovate, or more or less rhomboid, with a short
decurved somewhat twisted point; on strong young shoots