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S A L I X Stuartiana.
Shaggy Mountain Willow.
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DIOECIA Diandria.
Gen. Char. Male, Cal. the scales of a catkin. Cor.
none. Nectary a gland at the base of the stamina»
Stam. 1— 5. Female, Cal. and Nect. like the male.
Cor. none. Stigmas 2. Caps, superior, of 1 cell
and 2 valves. Seeds downy.
Spec, Char, Leaves nearly entire, lanceolate, acute;
shaggy above; densely silky beneath. Stigmas
capillary, deeply divided. Style as long as the
germen.
Syn. Salix arenaria masculina. Sm. FI. Brit. 1059.
Engl. Bot. v. 26. I8 0 9 .
T h e Rev, Dr. Stuart, to whose name we dedicate this Willow,
first gave us a specimen of it, in August 1782, from his garden
at Luss, as the male plant of Lightfoot’s S. lapponum, which is
the Linnaean arenaria, see t. 1809. He found it in Breadalbane,
where Mr. W. Borrer has since gathered our wild specimen, near
the upper end of the Finlarig bum.
Its natural height is two or three feet, but twice as much in a
garden. The branches are numerous, and of a dark brown.
Leaves smaller than in either arenaria or true lapponum, lanceolate,
sometimes slightly obovate; their upper surface even,
clothed with soft, shaggy, cottony down ; the under with long,
dense, silky hairs. The edge is sometimes slightly wavy. Flower-
buds large. Catkins shortish, ovate, with much larger bracteas
on their stalks than in arenaria. Germen nearly sessile, woolly.
Style capillary, about as long as the germen. Stigmas each
divided to the base, capillary. The male catkin is very woolly,
and short. We believe the exotic capsules, &c., described as
arenaria in p. 1809, rather belong to S. Stuartiana.
Linnaeus confounded this plant with his lapponum; but the
authentic specimen of the latter has larger, more wavy leaves,
densely cottony beneath, long catkins, a short style, and thick
stigmas.