/ S t , [ 2344 ]
SALIX F orsteriana.
Glaucous Mountain Sallow.
DIOECIA Diandria.
G en. Char. M a le, Cal. the scales o f a ca tkin. Cor.
none. Ne ctary a g lan d at the base o f the stamina.
Siam. 1— 5. Female, Cal. and N e d . like the male.
Cor. none. Stigmas 2. Caps, superior, o f 1 cell
and 2 valves. Seeds downy.
Spec. Char. Leaves elliptic-obovate, acute, notched,
slig h tly d ow n y ; glaucous beneath. Stipulas
vaulted. Branches minutely downy. Germen
stalked, silky. Stigmas undivided.
M r . T. F. FORSTER, F .L.S,, long ago supplied us with
specimens and living plants of this willow, originally obtained
from Scotland, where it is far from rare; but bearing considerable
resemblance to some others, it has never been described.
It flowers in May.
This is a larger shrub than our S. Andersoniana, and though
akin to that species, differs in the greater size and firmness of
its adult leaves, their darker more shining upper, and glaucous
under, side. Their pubescence is very slight indeed,
except on the midrib and footstalks, where it is dense, though
extremely short. Stipulas vaulted, toothed, rather hairy.
Female catkins an inch long when in blossom, afterwards
twice as much, but their floral leaves do not exceed those of
S. Andersoniana. Germen ovate, taper-pointed, silky, on a
hairy stalk. Style shortish, smooth. Stigmas thick, undivided.
This species, sufficiently distinguished by the above
characters from t. 2343, approaches on the other hand to
S.hirla, t. 1404, turning, like that, black in drying; but
the hirta is a tree, vastly more hairy, with larger, flat, quite
smooth stipulas; its leaves heart-shaped at the base. We
know nothing of its female catkins. .
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