CHAP. CIII

SALICA CE.E. SA XIX.

1597

at 179. S. cerasifo'lia Schl. The Cherry-leaved Willow.

Identification. Schleicher’s Catalogue.

Description, $c. An ornamental shrub, a native of Switzerland. Introduced in 1824.

a 180. S. ciirysa'nthos (Ed. The golden-flowered Norway Willow.

Identification. CEder in Flora Danica, 1.1057.; Willd., No. 102. ; Smith in Rees’s Cyclo., No. 127.Synonyme. ? S. lan&ta var.

Engraving. FI. Dan,, t. 1057. ’

Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves elliptic, acute at each end, entire, downy on both sides. Stipules ovate,entire. Catkins thick, in. long; the scales clothed with long, shining, gold-coloured hairs. Styledivided to the base. {Smith.) A native of Finmark, as well as of the Norway alps. A shrub withthick crooked branches, and large shaggy leaves. It takes its name from the gold-coloured hairson the scales of the catkin.

st 181. S. cinnamo'mea Schl. The Cinnamon Willow.

Identification. Schl. Cat

Descriptioni %c. A shrub, a native of Switzerland. Introduced in 1824.

a 182. S. clethr/efo'lia Schl. The Clethra-leaved Willow.Identification. Schl. Cat.; Lodd. Cat., 1836.

Descriptioni $c. A shrub, a native of Switzerland. Introduced in 1824. There are plants atMessrs. Loddiges’s, from which it appears to belong to the group Chpreee.

at 183. S. coni'fera Wangenh. The cone-bearing Willow.Identification. Wangenh. Amer., 123. t. 31. f. 72. ; Miihlenb. in Nov. Act. Soc. Nat. Scrut. Berol., 4.p. 240.; Willd. Arb., 347., Sp. PL, 4. p. 705.; Miihlenb. in Sims et Kdn. Ann. of Bot., 2. 67.;Pursh F). Amer. Sept., 2. p. 612.; Smith in Rees’s Cyclo., No. 130.

Synonyme. S. longirustris Michx. FI. Bor. Amer., 2. 226.

The Sexes. A female plant, with this name attached, was flowering in the London HorticulturalSociety’s arboretum in the spring of 1835.

Engraving. Wangenh. Amer., t. 31. f. 72. •

Spec. Char., 8 $c. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, serrulate with distant teeth ; glabrous on the uppersurface, even and tomentose on the under one. Stipules lunate, subdentate. Ovaries lanceolate,villous. Style elongated. Stamens deeply cleft. {Willd. and Smith.) Wild in North America, inshady woods on a gravelly dry soil, from New York to Carolina, where it flowers in April. Thecone-like excrescence at the ends of the branches, occasioned by an insect, is not unfrequentlyfound on S. /mnoides and its allied species. {Pursh.) Introduced in 1820.

m 184. S. coru'scans Willd. The glittering Willow.

Identification. Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 681.; Smith in Rees’s Cycl., No. 64. ; Eng. FI., 4. p. 180.; HostSal. Austr., 1. p. 28., who has quoted as identical Jacq. Austr., t. 408.

Synonymes. Willdenow has cited, as identical with this, S. arbuscula Jacq. Austr., t. 408., andHost Synops ., 527. ; and remarked that it is close akin to S. tenuifblia Smith ; and Smith has con-firmed this relationship in Eng.'Fl., 4. p. 180.: yet Koch has cited {Comm., p. 57.) the S. arbhsculaJacq. Austr., t. 408., as a rude and unfaithful figure of S. Waldsteimdna Willd., a kind whichWilldenow has stated {Sp. PI.) to be closely related to S. Myrsinltes’ Willd. Sp. Pi., and, hence, verydifferent from S. tenuifblia Smith 3 and Koch has besides {Comm., p. 45.) mentioned a doubtwhether S. cortiscans Willd. does not belong to S. arbfiscula Wahlenb ., but that he dares not referit to it, from not having seen an authentic specimen.

The Sexes. Both sexes are described in Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 681.; and both are figured in Host Sal.Austr.

Engravings. Jacq. Austr., t. 408, j Host Sal. Austr., t. 94.

Spec. Char., 8fC. Leaves ovate-elliptic, acute at the tip, tapered to the base ; serrate, the lower teethglanded; glabrous ; glossy above, (glaucescent beneath. Capsule ovate-lanceolate, glabrous,{Willd.) It inhabits the Alps of Styria, Carinthia, and Salzburg, (id.) Willdenow had seen thiskind living, and has described it in detail in his Sp. PL Introduced in 1818.

j* 185. S. cvdoneefo'lia Schl. The Quince-leaved Willow.

Identification. Schl. Cat. ; Lodd. Cat,, ed. 1836.

Description, fyc. A dwarf shrub, a native of Switzerland. Introduced in 1824. There are plant»at Flitwick, and in the Goldworth and Hackney arboretums.

j* 186. S. du'bia Hart. The doubtful Willow.

Description , S;c. There are plants under this name in the arboretum at Flitwick House.

j» 187. S. eria'ntha Schl. The woolly-flowered Willow.Identification. Schl. Cat.

Description, fyc. A low shrub, a native of Switzerland. Introduced in 1823, and flowering in April?

m 188. S. fagifo'lia Waldst. et Kit. The Beech-leaved Willow.

Identification. Waldstein et Kitaibel’s PI. Rar. Hung.; Willd., No. 103.; Smith in Rees’s Cyclo.,No. 128.

Spec. Char., %c. Leaves ovate-elliptic, with a glandular point, serrated, entire at the base; about14 in. long; dark green and smooth above, reticulated with hairy veins beneath. Stipules kidney-shaped, with glandular teeth. Branches brown, downy when young. Catkins not observed. {Willd.)A native of the Croatian Alps. There are plants in the Cambridge Botanic Garden, and at Messrs.Loddiges’s ; from the latter of which it appears to belong to the group Cinferee.