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or in general quite, wanting in the female. Their sides, in that stage ofgrowth, are closely rolled back, as is usual in the group to which thisspecies belongs.” (Eng. Bot.) There are plants at Woburn Abbey, atHenfield, and at Flitwick : at the latter place, one specimen, seven yearsplanted, is 10 ft. high, with a trunk 7 in. in diameter. It is also in theGoldworth Arboretum, and at Messrs. Loddiges’s, whence we have hadspecimens of both sexes.

¥ 82. S. acumina'ta Smith. The acuminated-/eawd, or large-leaved, Sallow,

or Willow.

Identification. Smith FI. Brit., p. 1068., excluding the references to Mill. Diet, and Hoffm. Sal.(Smith in Eng. Fl.)’; Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 704., excluding the reference to Hoflin. Sal.; ? HayneAbbild., p.251.; Koch Comm., p. 30., exclusively of some of the synonymes: Smith Eng. Bot.,1.1484 .; Eng. FI., 4. p. 227.; Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 131.; Hook. Br. Fl.,ed. 2., p. 421.: MackayFI. Hibern., pt. 1. p. 250.

Synonyme. S. lanceol&ta Scringe.

The Sexes- The female is described in Eng. FI. , and figured in Eng. Bot. and in Sal. Wob. Kochhas described the male, if what he has described belongs to this species.

Engravings. Eng. Bot., 1.1434.; Sal. Wob., No. 131. j f Hayne Abbild., 1 .193.; our fig. 1330.: andfig. 131. in p. 1628.

Spec. Char., §c. Stem erect. Leaves lanceolate-oblong, pointed, wavy, finelytoothed, glaucous and downy beneath. Stipules half-ovate, then kidney-shaped. Catkins cylindrical. Ovary stalked, ovate, hairy. Style as longas the undivided stigmas. ( Smith E. F.) A native of England, in wetgrounds; flowering in April and May. Neither Mr. Borrer nor Mr. Forbeshas ever found this species wild. (Hook. Br. FI., ed. 2.) Localities inIreland for it are stated in Mackay’s Flora Hibernica. Smith and Forbesplace this kind among the true sallows. ( Ibid.) In its upright mode ofgrowth, in the shape of its leaves, and in its general habit, it agrees muchbetter with S. viminalis, S. stipularis, and S. Smithian» than with any ofthe sallow tribe. At Florence Court, where I collected specimens in theautumn of 1833, it has become a tree of about 20 ft. high, although grow-ing in an elevated situation. ( Mackay in Flora Hibern.) The following de-scription is derived from Eng. FI. and Sal. Wob., chiefly from the former : —Generally of more humble growth than the S. ciiprea ; though sometimesbecoming a lofty tree, with upright, or less spreading, branches, which arealways minutely downy, and very soft to the touch. Leaves of a totallydifferent shape, commonly 3 in. or 4m. long, and 1 in. at least in breadth;elliptic-lanceolate, tapering to an acute point, either flat or somewhatrugged, with copious, though shallow and unequal, marginal notches ; theupper side green and smooth, except the midrib; under side paler, and,in a young state, glaucous; delicately soft and downy, with a prominentreddish midrib and veins. Footstalks reddish and downy, stout, mea-suring full | in; Catkins of the female cylindrical. (Smith.) A very distinctsallow, soon recognised to be different from S. macrostipulacea (Forbes)by its downy germen, and much larger leaves. (Id.) There are plants atWoburn, Henfield, and Flitwick (where there is a var. called S. a. alpina),and also at Messrs. Loddiges’s. Specimens from the latter arboretum, alsobearing the names of S. serpyllifolia and S. repens, were S. acuminata.

App. i. Viminales in the Country, but not described.

S. trichocai-pa. A specimen obtained from Messrs. Loddiges, under this name, seems the same asS. inedna, according to a specimen of the latter obtained of Mr. Brooks j but it may be an alliedkind, not yet described.

Group xvi. Cinerece Borrer.

Sallows. — Trees and Shrubs , with roundish shaggy Leaves , and thick Catkins.

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Stamens 2 to a flower. Ovary tomentose with silky tomentum. Leaves

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