1?1S32.
SALIX propinqua.
Flat-leaved upright Mountain Willow.
DIGECIA 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. Capsule of 1 cell and 2 valves.
Seeds tufted.
Spec. Char. Erect. Young shoots minutely pubescent.
Leaves elliptical, obscurely crenate, nearly
flat, with slightly sunken veins, nearly naked on
both sides; pale green beneath. Stipules small,
vaulted, glandulose. Germen stalked, silky towards
the point. Style longer than the notched
stigmas.
T h i s Willow also was discovered in Britain by Mr. Anderson,
and we know it only from plants received from him.
Finding in these some apparently distinctive characters, we
venture, after much hesitation, to add another presumed
species to a section of the genus of which almost every
species is doubtful.
Planted by the side of S. pelrcea, it has attained in the
same period scarcely half the height of that Willow, and
differs from it likewise in the following particulars. The
pubescence of the young shoots is less dense and less conspicuous,
and the leaves of such shoots are more truly elliptical,
less carinate, and scarcely waved or twisted, although
the acute point is usually oblique and deflected; they are