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cies, and much nearer to 5. arbdscula Wahlenb. Mr. Borrer has remarked on this as follows -“ I am not acquainted with S. livida Wahl. If this prove S. bicolor Ekrh ., our 5. bicolor, whichis the plant of the German gardens, as I conclude from Mertens having given it me as S. bicolor,may bear Forbes’s name of floribunda, unless Schrader’s older name, discolor, belongs to it: seeKoch, p. 46.” [Borrer in a letter.)

The Sexes. The male is described in Sal. Wob., and figured in Eng. Bot. and Sal. Wob. ; somenotice of what Mr. Borrer deems the female is given in Hook. Br. FI., ed. 2.

Engravings. Eng. Bot., t. 2186.; Sal. Wob., No. 54.; and our jig. 54. in p. 1615.; ?Hayne Abbild.,1 .180., where the sex figured is the male.

Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves elliptical, green and shining above, glabrous andglaucous beneath; serrated, ending in oblique points. Stipules crescent-shaped, serrated. Catkins of the male copious, bright yellow. Filamentsslightly bearded at the base. (Sal. Wob., p. 107.) A native of Britain; flower-ing, in the willow garden of Woburn Abbey, in April, and again in July. Abushy spreading shrub, with short yellow branches, slightly villous whenyoung; the older ones rather a yellowish green, quite glabrous ; rising to theheight of 6 ft. or 8 ft., with bright yellow catkins in April, and again in July.Leaves elliptical, acute, serrated, glabrous; shining above, glaucous and veinybeneath; glabrous in every state of growth, with the exception of a slightdowniness on the very youngest leaves, which are always of a purplishcolour; midrib and footstalks glabrous, yellow. Stipules crescent-shaped,serrated. This is a very ornamental species when in flower; neither are theleaves destitute of beauty; and, when the shrub is cut down, it producestough, flexible twigs, that are good for tying, basketwork, &c. S. bicolorhas become 10 ft. high with Mr. Borrer. (Eng. Bot. Suppl., t. 2660.)There are plants at Henfield.

143. S. phillyreifo'lia Borrer. The Phillyrea-leaved Willow.

Identification. Borrer in Eng. Bot. Suppl., t. 2660.: Hook. Br. FI., ed.2. p. 417.

The Sexes. Both sexes are described and figured in Eng. Bot. Suppl., the female in the fruit-bearing state.

Engraving. Eng. Bot. Suppl., t. 2660.

Spec. Char.,S(c. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, acute at each end, strongly serrated, glabrous on bothsurfaces, glaucous on the under one. Stipules small. Young shoots pubescent. Bracteas (scales)oblong, hairy, longer than the glabrous stalk of the glabrous ovary. Style as long as the stigmas.In the arrangement of the kinds, this one may stand between S. bicolor and S. Dicksoiudzin, inboth of which; the leaves are for the most part obsoletely serrated, and of a figure approaching toobovate with a point. [Borrer.) Mr. Borrer has thus stated its localities in a wild state. Highlandvalleys of Scotland, particularly in Glen Tarfe, near Fort Augustus, Inverness-shire; and in thevicinity of Ben Lawers, Perthshire. He has termed it a beautiful kind. The male, growing inhis garden since 1810, had become, in 1830, an upright much branched shrub, about 5 ft. high ; andit flowers in about the middle of April, before the leaves appear, and sometimes again at mid-summer. Catkins numerous, cylindrical, £ in. long, closely set with flowers. The leaves, in size,figure, and serratures, bear no slight resemblance to those of Phill^rea latifblia : when young, theyare sprinkled on both surfaces with minute appressed hairs, but become at length glabrous, exceptin the upper surface of the petiole and midrib. The disk of the leaf is scarcely more than 1 in.long, and has its upper surface of a bright, shining, full green; the under surface bluish : the petioleis about a third of the length of the disk. There are plants at Hentield.

144. S. Dickson ia'na Smith. Dickson’s Willow.

Identification. Smith Eng. Bot., 1.1390. : the figure is bad, and has led to doubts as to this species,which only authenticated specimens could remove. [Borrer' in Eng. Bot. Suppl., t. 2663., inci-dentally.) vVilld. Sp. PI., 4. p. 696.; Smith in Rees’s Cyclo., No. 60.; Eng. FI., 4. p. 196.; Forbes inSal. Wob., No. 55.; Hook. Br. FI., ed. 3.

Si/nonyme. S. myrtilloldes Smith FI. Brit., p. 1056., not of Lin.

The Sexes. The female is described in Eng. Fl. and Sal. Wob., and figured in Eng. Bot. and Sal.

Wob. Smith has noticed, in his English Flora, that he had not observed the stamens.

Engravings. Eng. Bot., 1.1390., see under Identification, above; Sal. Wob., No.55.; and ourJig. 55. in p.1615.

Spec. Char., §c. Leaves elliptical, acute, slightly toothed, glabrous ; glaucousbeneath. Young branches very glabrous. Catkins ovate, short, erect. Ovarystalked, ovate, silky. Stigmas nearly sessile. (Smith Eng. Ft., iv. p. 196.)Leaves, for the most part, obsoletely serrated, and of a figure approaching toobovate with a point. Ovary and its stalk densely silky. (Borrer in Eng.Bot. Suppl., t. 2660., incidentally.) A native of Scotland; flowering inApril. The following traits are derived from Mr. Forbes’s description :—“Alow-growing upright shrub, attaining the height of 18 in. or 2 ft., withsmooth yellow branches ; the preceding year’s are greenish and scaly. Theleaves are elliptic, obovate, minutely serrated in the middle, or denticulated;entire at both extremities; glabrous and shining above, and very glaucous