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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM.

PART III.

Description , %c. A slirub, a native of Switzerland. Introduced in 1823 The plants at Hackneyappear allied to S. c&prea.

a 207. S. pat.udo'sa Lk. The Marsh Willow.

Identification. Link Enum.; Sweet Hort. Brit, No. 73.; Lodd. Cat., ed, 1836.

Description , 8fC. From the plants bearing this name in the Hackney arboretum, this kind appearsto belong to the same group as S. pallescens.

* 208. S. /'krsiCjEFo'i.ia Hort. The Peach-tree-leaved Willow.

Identification . Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836.

Description, fyc. The plant bearing this name in the Hackney arboretum appears allied to S.nlbra.

-* 209. S. pyrena'ica Gouan. The Pyrenean Willow.

Identification. Gouan Illust., 77., excluding the synonymes; Willd., No. 86.: Smith in Rees’sCyclo., No. 107.

Spec. Char., %c. Stems quite prostrate, branched, and smooth. Leaves lin. long, and nearly £ in.wide ; bright green and shining above ; remarkably woolly about the margin, which gives them apeculiar and characteristic appearance. When young, they are hairy all over. Footstalks broad,channeled, rather short, smooth, yellowish, without stipules. Female catkins 2 in. long, slender,rather lax, on leafy stalks. Scales linear-obovate, long, fringed with copious long hairs. Germensextending rather beyond the scales, and clothed with similar hairs. Stigmas long and linear.(Smith in Rees's Cyclo.) A native of the Pyrenees. Introduced in 1823, and flowering in May.

* 210. S. pyrifo'lia Schl. The Pear-tree-leaved Willow.

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

Description, fyc. A shrub, a native of Switzerland. Introduced in 1824, and, from the plants atHackney, apparently belonging to Cinfereas.

*211. S. recurva'ta Pursli. The recurved-catkined Willow.

Identification. Pxirsh FI. Amer. Sept., 2. p. 609. ; Smith in Rees’s Cyclo., No. 99.

The Sexes. The female is noticed in the Specific Character.

Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves obovatc-lanceolate, acute, glabrous, entire ; glandular at the margin, glau-cous beneath ; the young ones silky. Stipules none. Catkins protruded before the leaves, re-curved. Ovary ovate, somewhat stalked, the length of the hairs of the bracteas. Style very short.Stigmas divided. Wild in shady woods in North America, among the mountains of New Jerseyand Pennsylvania ; flowering in April. A low shrub. Branches brown, glabrous. Buds yellow.Bracteas tipped with black. (Pursh and Smith.) Introduced in 1811. According to Pursh (p.612.),it bears considerable resemblance to S. rosmarinifblia.

* 212. S. aai.vi.ffo'lia Link. The Sage-leaved Willow.

Identification. Adopted from Link in Willd Sp. PI., 4. p. 688. ; Smith in Rees’s Cyclo., No. 87. jKoch Comm., p. 34.

Synonymes. S. p&tula Scringe Sal. Helv., p. 11., Spreng. Syst., Sweet Hort. Brit. ; S. oleifolia Ser.Sal. exsicc.. No. 1. ; S. olesefdlia Vill. Dauph., 3. p. 784., according to Willd. Sp. PL, 4. p. 709.;S. Fluggeclna Willd. Sp. PL, 4. p. 709., according to a specimen from Flugge himself in the her-barium of Mertens, Smith in Rees’s Cyclo., No. 139.

The Sexes. The female is described in the Specific Character, and in Willdenow’s description of S.Fluggednnr.

Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves oblong lanceolate, acute, tapered to the base, obsoletely denticulated,hoary and tomentose, and wrinkled with veins on the under surface ; lower ones obtuse. Stipuleshalf-heart-shaped, acute. Catkins sessile, arched, attended by some scale-shaped loaves at thebase. Capsule ovate-lanceolate, tomentose, stalked ; the stalk as long again as the gland. Styleshort. Stigmas oblong, nearly entire. (Koch.) Wild in Portugal, the south of France, and Swit-zerland. In Dauphin§, Villars says that it serves as a stock on which to graft S. vitelllna. Smithmentions that the trunk is about 10 ft. or 12 ft. high ; the leaves about 1£ in. or 2 in. long, and some-what revolute ; and the branches dark brown, hairy when young, and very brittle. Smith describesS. saivitefolia and S. Fluggedwa as distinct species ; but it does not appear that he had seen speci-mens of either. S. Flugge««a Willd. is stated in the Hortus Britannicus to be a native of the southof France, and introduced in 1820.

-«213. Schraderw'jm Willd. Schrader’s Willow.

Identification. Willd. Sp. PL, 4. p. 695.; Smith in Rees’s Cyclo., No. 104.; Koch incidentally inComm., p. 46.

Synonymes. S. discolor Sckrad. Hort. Gott. MSS., as quoted by Willd. It is noticed by Koch (Comm.,p. 46.), as a variety of a kind that is cultivated, in most German gardens, under the erroneous nameof S. bicolor Ehrhart.

Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves elliptical, acute ; finely downy on both surfaces, glaucous on the under one;slightly serrated towards the point. Stipules very small. Catkins protruded rather earlier thanthe leaves, ovate, hairy. (Smith.) It approaches, in habit and size of leaves, S. Crow eiina and S.bicolor ; but the foliage is always more or less clothed on both surfaces with silky hairs ; and thetwo stamens are distinct. The footstalks are slender, elongated, sometimes having two minuterounded stipules at the base, or, in their stead, a pair of glands. (Id.) Introduced in 1820.

* 2H. S. septentriona'lis Host. The northern Willow.

Identification. Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836.

Description, fyc. From the plants in the Hackney arboretum, this kind appears to belong to thegroup Cinfcrese. Mr. Borrer had cuttings of S. nigricans Smith, from Messrs. Loddiges, under thename of S. septentrionalis.