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ARBORETUM AND FRUT1CETUM.

PART III.

of the trunk 2 ft., and of the head 99 ft. In Lanarkshire, in the Glasgow Botanic Garden , lfi yearsplanted, it is 55 ft. high. In Banffshire , at Gordon Castle, it is 56 ft. high. In Perthshire in thePerth Nursery, 8 years planted, it is 22 ft. high. *

S Mix alba, in Ireland. In Kilkenny , at Woodstock, 65 years planted, it is 70 ft high • the dia.meter of the trunk 3£ ft, and of the head 65 ft. In Sligo , at Makree Castle, it is 65 ft.’high • thediameter of the trunk 5 ft. and of the head 60 ft ’

S&lix alba in Foreign Countries. In Prance, at Nantes , in the nursery of M. De Nerrieres, 30 yearsplanted, it is 38ft. high. In Bavaria, at Munich, in tne Botanic Garden , 84 years planted it is50 ft. high. ’

i 27. S. vitelli'na L. The yolk-of-egg-coloured, or yellow; Willow,or Golden Osier.

Identification . Lin. Sp. PI., 1442.; Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 668. j Host Sal. Aust., 1. p. 9. t. 30 31. •Hoff! Sal., 1. p. 57. 1 .11,12. and 24. f. 1. {Smith) ; Smith Eng. Bot., t. 1389.; Eng . FI., 4, p. 132. .’Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 20.; Hook. Br. FI., ed. 3., p. 423. j Mackay FI. Hibern., pt. X. p. 248.

Synonyme. S. &lba Koch Comm. , p, 16.

The Sexes. Both sexes are figured in Eng . Bot., Sal. Wob., and Host Sal. Aust.

Engravings. Hoffm. Sal., t. 11, 12. and 24. f. 1. ; Host Sal. Aust., t. 30, 31.; Eng . Bot., 1 1389.;Sal. Wob., No. 20. j fig. 20. in p. 1606. j and the plate of this tree in our last Volume.

Spec. Char., §c. Leaves lanceolate, acute, with cartilaginous serratures jglabrous above; glaucous, and somewhat silky beneath. Stipules minute,lanceolate, deciduous, smooth. Ovary sessile, ovate-lanceolate, smooth.Bracteas linear-lanceolate, acute, fringed at the base, longer than the pistil.{Smith Eng. FI., iv. p. 182.) S. vitellina, strangely referred to S. alba as avariety by the great Haller, differs from S. alba obviously in its longer, moretaper catkins; lanceolate, pointed bracteas; glabrous filaments; and gla-brous adult leaves, and, perhaps, in other marks. {Smith, incidentally in Eng .FL, under S. alba.) “ Hoffmann observes that the inner layer of the barkin 8. vitellina is yellow, while that of S. alba is green; but I have greatdoubts of the constancy of this character.” {Smith, under S. vitellina.) Anative of Britain , in hedges ; and cultivated in osier grounds, in many places;and readily distinguished from all the other sorts, by the bright yellowcolour of its branches. It has been introduced from Europe into NorthAmerica , where, according to Mr. Pursh, it is common by road sides andin plantations.” {Smith in his Eng . FI.) It is much cultivated for basket-work, tying, &c., and also as an ornamental shrub or tree. The rods, beingtough and flexible, Sir J. E. Smith says, are “fit for many purposesof basketwork, as well as for package.” As an ornamental tree, Nalixvitellina is very striking in the winter season, especially among evergreens.As a shrub, it is not less so, both among evergreen shrubs and deciduouskinds, having the bark of conspicuous colours. In the English garden atMunich , extensive masses of this willow are placed in contrast with massesof the white-barked honeysuckle (Lonicera Xylosteum), the red-barkeddogwood (Cornus alba), and the brown-barked spiraea {S. opulifoha).The outlines of the masses at Munich are lumpish and formal, and the onemass is by no means blended with the other as it ought to be; but still theeffect, in the winter season, is very striking, and well deserves imitation bythe landscape-gardeners of this country. The tree of this species in theHorticultural Society’s Garden, which is a male, and a very handsome tree,was 30 ft. high in 1835, after having been only ten or twelve years planted.Both male and female plants are in the Hackney arboretum and at Wo-burn Abbey .

Variety. Smith, in his Eng . FI., under S. rubra, and Koch in his Comm., p. 1C.,have cited a variety or variation of S. vitellina, with reddish branchlets.

Statistics. In Hertfordshire, at Cheshunt, in the arboretum of William Harrison , Esq-, on ., ttl fbanks of a stream, 7 years planted, it is S3 ft. high. In Ireland, in Galway , at tooie,

54 ft. high ; the diameter of the trunk 2 ft., and of the head 57 ft. In Bavaria , in 1Botanic Garden, 84 years planted, it is 50 ft. high. In Austria, at Vienna , m the .-

Botanic Garden , 30 years planted, it is 40 ft. high ; the diameter of the trunk 1 ft. 6in., anahead 2811: at Briick on the Leytha, 30 years planted, it is30ft. high.

App. i. A'lbcc described, but which , probably, have not been intio~duced into Britain .

S. excelsior Host Sal. Aust., t. 28, 29.