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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM.

PART III.

bent. In the Woburn salictum, it grows about 18 in. high, quite upright.Young branches brown, bearing a little short, soft, curved down; not rigidprominent hairs, as in the S. ietulifolia Forster. Leaves broadly ovate,tolerably uniform, 1 in. long, or rather more, bluntly pointed, serratedthroughout, but not deeply; quite glabrous, even, of a full shining greenon the upper surface, without any prominent veins; glaucous, veiny whenvery young only ; besprinkled with a few silky close hairs, beneath. Catkinsobtuse, of a brownish purple, much shorter than those of S. racciniifolia,S. venulosa, and S. carinata; and more like those of S. ietulifolia Forster.The branches are, likewise, more thickly clothed with upright shorter leaves,than those of either S. venulosa or S. nacciniifolia. The above is derivedpartly from Smith, and partly from Forbes. There are plants at Woburnand Flitwick.

Variety.

jt S. p. stylo longiore Koch, style longer; S. y>runifblia Ser. Sal. Helv.p. 49.; S. formosa Willd. Sp. PL, iv. p. 680.; S. foe'tida Schleich. Cent.,ii. n. 95.; S. alpina Sut. Helv., p. 283.—This is wild in Switzerland.

(Koch Comm.) S. formosa Willd. is registered in Sweet’s HortusBritannicus as introduced in 1820.

st 148. S. venulo'sa Smith. The veiny-leaved Willow.

Identification. Smith FI. Br., 1055.; Eng. Bot., 1362. j Rees’s Cyclo., No. 57. j Eng. FI., 4. p. 195.

Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 58.; Hook. Br. FI., ed. 3.

Synonyme. S. prunifulia, part of, Koch Comm., p. 41.

T/tc Sexes. The female is figured in Eng. Bot. and Sal. Wob.

Engravings. Eng. Bot., 1.1362. j SaL Wob., No. 56.and fig. 56. in p. 1615.

Spec. Char., 8(C. Leaves ovate, serrated, naked, reticulated with prominent veins above, ratherglaucous beneath. Capsules ovate, silky. Stem erect, much branched. ( Smith Eng. FI.) A nativeof Scotland, on the Breadalbane Mountains, where the blossoms are in perfection in June; but ingardens they flower in April; and, in the willow garden at Woburn Abbey, they flower a secondtime in August. In size and general habit, this species agrees with 5. prunifblia; but the some-what narrower leaves differ materially on their upper surface, in their prominent, elegantly reticu-lated veins, conspicuous in the dried as well as growing specimens, especially towards the margin.The under side is generally less glaucous than in the two last; and, in having many close-pressedhairs, comes nearest to S. yacciniifulia. Catkins much longer and more slender than in S. pruni-fblia; and the whole shrub is more erect, and grows in the Woburn collection to twice the heightof either S. prunifblia or S. vacciniifblia. SirW. J. Hooker agrees with Mr. E. Forster, in consideringS. venulbsa as only a variety of S. prunifolia; and, indeed, he doubts if 5. prunifblia, S. carin&ta,and S. uacciniifblia, with S. venulbsa, are not different states of the same species; and Koch andDr. Lindley are of this opinion, having included them all under one species, S. prunifblia. Weaccordingly consider those forms as varieties, though we have treated them, to a certain extent, asif they were species, for the sake of those who differ from us in opinion. Mr. Borrer has remarked,in the manuscript list with which he has favoured us, that probably S. arbuscula L. is the sameas one or more of the kinds S. aacciniifblia Walk., S. carinata Smith, S. prunifblia Smith , and S.venulbsa Smith. There are plants at Woburn, Henfield, and Flitwick.

34 149. S', cje'sia Pillars. The grey-leaved Willow.

Identification. Villars Dauph., 3. 768.; Smith in Rees’s Cyclo., No. 80.; Koch Comm., p. 59.Synonymes. S. myrtilloides Willd. Sp. PI. , 4. p.686., exclusively of the synonymes of Linnasus{Borrer), Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 66. ( Borrer) ; S. prostrhta Ehrh. PI. Select., p. 159., accordingto Seringe {Koch).

The Sexes. The female is described and figured in Sal. Wob.

Engravings. Villars Dauph., 3. t. 50. f. 11. j SaL Wob., No. 66.; and our fig. 66. in p. 1616.

Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves elliptic or lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, notshining, entire and revolute at the edge. Catkin upon a short leafy twiglet.Capsule ovate-conical, tomentose, seemingly sessile, eventually having avery short stalk. Gland reaching as high as the base of the capsule. Styleshortish. Stigmas ovate-oblong, entire, and bifid. (Koch.) Wild in theAlps of Dauphine, and in Savoy, upon the mountain Enzeindog. (Pd.)Registered as introduced in 1824. Mr. Forbes has given a detailed de-scription, whence we quote as follows:—“A low straggling shrub, attainingthe height of 3 ft. or 4 ft., with slender shortish branches, dark brown ontheir upper side, pale beneath, somewhat wrinkled or striated. Leaves about1 in. long, perfectly entire, wavy, with a short sharp point; very glabrous,glaucous and veiny beneath; lower opposite, upper alternate. Catkinsfrom £in. to nearly 1 in. in length, appearing, in the willow garden atWoburn Abbey, along with the leaves, in April or May, and again in Au-gust. Koch has noted (Comm., p. 52.) that S. caa'sia Villars differs from