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S A L IX c a rin a ta .
Folded-leaved Willow.
HIO EC I A Diandria.
G en. Char. Male, Cal. the scales of a catkin. Cor.
none. N e c ta ry a gland at the base of the stamina.
Stam. 1— 5. Female, Cal. and Nect. like the male.
Cor. none. Stigmas 2. Caps, superior, o f 1 cell
and 2 valves. Seeds downy.
Spec. Char. Leaves ovate, finely toothed, smooth,
minutely veined, folded so as to form a keel. Capsules
ovate, downy.
Syn . Salix carinata. Sm. FI. B r it. 1055.
A l l i e d to the two preceding, but abundantly distinct.
Mr. Dickson communicated it living from the Scottish highlands.
It flowers in our gardens in April.
It is a largfer and more upright shrub than S’, prunifolia and
venuhsa; the young branches are elongated and straight,
nearly smooth. Stipulae extremely minute, but shaped as in
those species. Leaves elliptical, acute, minutely toothed
rather than serrated, remarkably recurved and sharply keeled,
so that the two sides approach each other, and the leaf cannot
be pressed flat. Both surfaces are smooth and finely veined;
the upper one green and shining, the under paler, opaque,
slightly glaucous. In their very earliest state only the leaves
are silky beneath. On the old branches a sort of tooth is
observable where each footstalk had previously stood. The
catkins are small and ovate, with short roundish concave
hairy scales. Germen twice as long as its corresponding scale,
ovate, silky. Stigmas nearly sessile, ovate, thick and short,
at length notched. -
We find no notice taken by any author of this Willow or
the last.