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i S. b. 1 vulgaris fcem. Hort. has pale green young shoots, slender, withan angular twist above the axil of each leaf, and large stipules. Itis the most common weepingwillow in the neighbourhood of London,and flowers in June.

% S. b. 2 Napoleons Hort. has round shoots, generally reddish, and theleaves are without stipules. It is of very vigorous growth; and there“ are a number of plants of this kind in a brickfield close to theLunatic Asylum at Hanwell; one at the Marsh Gate, Richmond,near the Poorhouse; and one at the Ferry, near Ham House. Mr.Castles’s son, Mr. George Castles, says there are also some by thecanal side, near Brentford.” The tree at Richmond, when measuredfor us in November 1836, was 60 ft. high, and the diameter of thetrunk was 3 ft. 3 in.

S S. b. 3 crispa Hort.; S. annularis Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 21.,with a fig. of the female ; our Jig. 21. in p. 1606.; and the plate ofthis tree in our last Volume. The ring-leaved Willow. — Leaves lan-ceolate, acuminate, serrated, curled, or twisted, glabrous, and glaucousbeneath. Young twigs erect, pubescent at the points. Stipuleshalf-heart-shaped. Ovary ovate, glabrous, and sessile. Stigmasnotched. (Sal. Wob., p. 41.) The preceding year’s branches arependulous. A garden production, of uncertain origin, easily dis-tinguished from the common weeping willow (S. babylonica), by thecrowded mass of its young twigs, and its curled leaves. The treedoes not appear as though it would attain the same height as thespecies. The catkins of the ring-leaved willow appear in May.The plant of this variety in the Horticultural Society’s Garden, andfigured in our last Volume, was, in 1834, 17 ft. high.

Statistics of the Species. Salix babyldnica in the Environs of London. There are many immensetrees on the banks of the Thames, and in villa gardens where the soil is moist, from 50 ft. to 60 ft.high, with heads 60 ft. or 80 ft. in diameter. In the Horticultural Society’s Garden, in 1834, twotrees, 8 years planted, were 18 ft. high. At Mount Grove, Hampstead, 4 years planted, it is 12 ft. high.

Salts babylonica South of London. In Devonshire, in Bystock Park, 12 years planted, it is 24 ft.high ; at Endsleigh Cottage, 10 years planted, 20 ft. high. In Dorsetshire, at Melbury Park, 20 years