. Field and woodland plants. lower of which isdivided into tliree lobes. The Dwarf SUkyWillow {Salix repens—order Salicacece) is verycommon on heaths. Itis a small, stragglingshrub, from one to tlireefeet high, sometimeserect, but more commonlyprocumbent and rootingat the base, with slenderbranches. Its leaves areoften less than an inch inlength, oblong or narrow,with recurved margins,shining above and silkybelow. When young, theleaves are silky on bothsides ; and the youngtwigs and the buds arealso clothed with a silkydown. The flowers areimperfect, and are inshort, sessile, erect, oblong cat
. Field and woodland plants. lower of which isdivided into tliree lobes. The Dwarf SUkyWillow {Salix repens—order Salicacece) is verycommon on heaths. Itis a small, stragglingshrub, from one to tlireefeet high, sometimeserect, but more commonlyprocumbent and rootingat the base, with slenderbranches. Its leaves areoften less than an inch inlength, oblong or narrow,with recurved margins,shining above and silkybelow. When young, theleaves are silky on bothsides ; and the youngtwigs and the buds arealso clothed with a silkydown. The flowers areimperfect, and are inshort, sessile, erect, oblong catkins, which appear in April and earlyMay, before the leaves. The male and female flowers grow ondifierent shrubs ; but in both cases the catkins are about half aninch long, with a few leafy bracts at the base, and the flowersare intermixed with silky scales. The cajisules split whenripe, liberating numerous minute seeds that are tufted with long,white, silky hairs. The Juniper {Junipenis communis), one of the few British. THE Autumnal Ladys Tresses. ON HEATH. DOWN AND MOOR 277 conifers, is not uncommon on dry, gravelly or chalky downs, moreespecially in the North. It is a profusely-branched, evergreenshrub, either erect or procumbent, and usually from one to five feethigh. Its leaves are veiy narrow, half an inch or less in length,concave above, terminating in a very sharp point, and arrangedthree in a whorl. The male and female flowers grow on separateshrubs, and are clustered in minute catkins, about a twelfth of aninch long, sessile in theaxils of the leaves. Thefruit is a bluish-black,berrylike cone, about athud of an inch in dia-meter. The Juniperflowers dming May andJune. Passing now to theOrchidacece we have tonote two species, thefirst of which is the Au-tumnal Ladys Tresses{Spiranihes cmtumnalis),a moderately commonplant on the dry downsof South Britain, flower-ing from August toOctober. It has two orthree thick, oval tubers;and a slender stem,from four to eightinche
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