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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM.

I’ART III.

crenate, or notched with shallow, flat, or slightly waved, gland-pointedteeth. Petiole about a quarter of the length of the disk. Catkins of themale numerous and showy; produced about the beginning of April, earlierthan in the generality of mountain willows. (E. B. S.) Ovary lanceolatesubulate, on a long stalk, quite glabrous; style long, bifid; stigmas linear,bifid. (Hooker.) This kind, cultivated in the willow garden at WoburnAbbey, produced its flowers before the expansion of the leaves in April;and again, when the plant was in full leaf, in July. Trained to a single stem,it would form a very handsome small tree for suburban gardens. Thereare plants at Flitwick and Woburn.

a 135. S. Daval i,ia'na Smith. Davall’s Willow.

Identification. Smith Eng. FI., 4. p. 175,, as far as to the Scottish kind j Borrer in Eng. Bot. Suppl.,t. 2701.; Smith’s British specimens, not his Swiss one, were taken from the same individual as ours(Borrer) j Forbes in Sal. Wob. No. 47.; Hook. Br. FI., ed. 3.

Synonymes. S. tetrapla Walker (Anderson) ; S. phylicifblia Willd. (Mertens) j these relate to thefemale of the Scottish kind (Borrer): S. tfhymekeoldes Schleicher. (Forbes in Sal Wob.)

The Sexes . The female is described and figured in Eng. Bot. Suppl. Mr. Borrer is not acquaintedwith the male, but has added a figure of a specimen of what Mr. Anderson regarded as such,prepared from a‘sketch made from one of Mr. Anderson’s specimens in 1811. Two sexes arefigured in Sal. Wob. As it is most probable that Mr. Borrer knew of these, perhaps he deemedthe male erroneous.

Engravings. Eng. Bot. Suppl., t. 2701.; Sal. Wob., No. 47.; and our Jig. 47. in p. 1614.

Spec. Char., fyc. Upright. Leaves obovate lanceolate, flattish, very acutelypointed, obscurelytoothed or serrated; glabrous on both surfaces, somewhatglaucous on the under one. Stipules minute. Young shoots and petiolespubescent. Bracteas obovate, silky. Ovary stalked, acute, silky. Styleas long as the divided stigmas. (Borr. in Eng. Bot. Suppl.) The femaleis a native of Scotland. We have specimens from Teesdale that seem ofthe same species. (Borr.) A bushy shrub, with ascending branches,

scarcely exceeding 4 ft. high. Twigs tinged with brown. (Borr.) It growswith me to from 6 ft. to 7 ft. high, with upright, dark brown, shining branches.(Forbes.) Leaves about IJin. long (Borr.), ] in. broad', on luxuriantshoots (Forbes)-, upper surface dark green and shining, under surface pale,and more or less glaucous. Petiole rather long and slender. Catkins ofthe female about 1 in. long. The flowers appear when the leaves begin toexpand, about the end of April. (Borr.) There are plants at Woburn, Hen-field, and Flitwick.

? Variety.

as S. Havalli ana Smith, the Swiss kind. (Smith Eng. FI., iv. p. 175.)—Bor-rer has not identified, in Eng. Bot. Suppl., this with the Scottishkind; hence it becomes right to register it separately. The fol-lowing notice of it is derived from Smith Eng. FI. ; — M. Davallsent a specimen of the kind to Smith, ir 1790, from Switzerland.This specimen, when shown to Professor Mertens, was pronouncedby him to be of the S. phylicifolia of Willdenow and other Germanbotanists. “ It is not, however, that of Linnaeus, nor, apparently,that of Wahlenberg.” It agrees with the female of the Scottishkind, except that the ovary, and all parts of the catkin, are muchless silky.

as 136. S. te'teapla Smith. The four-ranked Willow.

Identification. Smith Eng. Fl. f 4. p. 177., exclusively of the citation of Walker; Hook. Br. FI., ed. 2.,p. 426., exclusively of the citation of Walker; Borrer in Eng. Bot. Suppl., t. 2702. \ ? Forbes in Sal.Wob., t 49. Borrer has not quoted the last.

The Sexes. The female is described and figured in Eng. Bot. ; the figure in Sal. Wob., whether of

; this kind or not, is of the female j and a male is described there. Male flowers not known toMr. Borrer; but who has found S. ramifiisca Forbes (Sal. Wob., t. 53.), from recent specimens inleaf, so similar to S. tetrapla Smith , that he can scarcely doubt of that being the male of this.

Engravings. Eng. Bot. Suppl., t. 2702.; ? Sal. Wob., No. 49.; and our fig. 49. in. p. 1614.

Spec. Char., Sfc. Upright. Leaves lanceolate, twisted, somewhat carinate,very acutely pointed, serrated ; nearly glabrous on both surfaces, glaucouson the under one. Stipules small, half-heart-shaped. Young shoots andpetioles pubescent. Bracteas lanceolate, silky. Ovary stalked, bluntish,