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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM.

PART III.

leaves, it is dissimilar to S. viminalis : its buds and leaves seem rather toindicate affinity to kinds of the group Cinereae. There are plants at Henfield.

m 72. S. ca'ndida Willd. The whitish Willow.

Identification. Willd. Sp. PL, 4. p. 708.; Pursh Pl. Amer. Sept., 2. p. 608.; Smith in Rees’s Cyclo.,No. 138.; Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 91.

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

Engravings. Sal. Wob., No. 91.; onr fig, 1326.; and fig. 91. in p. 1619.

Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves linear-lanceolate, very long,obscurely toothed; downy above; beneath denselydowny. Stipules lanceolate, nearly the length of thefootstalks. ( Willd. and Forbes.') A native of North Ame-rica . Introduced in 1811, and flowering, in the willow-garden at Woburn Abbey , about the end of Februaryor beginning of March. Leaves from 3 in. to 4 in.long; linear-lanceolate, narrow towards their extre-mities, obscurely toothed; margins slightly revolute;downy above, snow-white and cottony beneath ; witha prominent midrib, and obscurely prominent lateralveins, owing to the down. Catkin of the male 1 in. long, cylindrical. Avery handsome species, well deserving a place in shrubberies, both for itsornamental white leaves, and very early flowers. There are plants atWoburn and Henfield.

Varieties. Mr Forbes mentions two varieties, one of which flowers full threeweeks earlier than the other, and has the anthers of a less deep scarlet.(Sal. Wob.)

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at ? $ 73. S. inca'na Schranck. The hoary -leaved Willow, ? or Osier.

Identification. Schranck Baier (Bavar.) FL , 1. p. 230.: Koch Comm., p. 32.; Forbes in Sal. Wob.,No. 90.

Synonymes. S. riphria Willd. Sp. PL, 4. p. 698., Smith in Rees's Cyclo., No. Ill., Hayne Abbild.,p. 245., ? Host Sal. Austr., 1. p. 17.; S. lavandukefblia Lapeyr. Abr., p. 601., Scringe Sal. Helv.,p. 70. ; S. angustifblia Pair, in Du Ham. Arb., ed. 1., 3. t. 29.; S. rosmarinifblia Gouart Hort., 501.,Schranck Salisb., No. 38., Scop. Cam., p.527., Host Syn., 529.; S. viminalis Fill. Dc/ph., o.p. 785.

The Sexes. Both are figured in Hayne Abbild.: the male is figured in Sal. Wob., where Mr. Forbeshas noticed that he had not seen the catkins of the other sex. If the kind of Host Sal. Austr. isidentical, both sexes of it are figured in that work.

Engravings. Du Ham. Arb., ed. 1., 3. t. 29.; Hayne Abbild., t. 187.; Sal. Wob., No. 90.; ? HostSal. Austr., t. 58, 59.; our Jig. 1327.; and Jig. 90. in. p. 1619.

Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves linear-lanceolate, denticulated, hoary on the widersurface with hoary tomentum. Catkins arched, slender, almost sessile, sub-tended at the base with small leaves. Capsule ovate-lanceolate, glabrous,stalked; the stalk twice the length of the gland.

Style elongated. Stigmas bifid. Bracteas subgla-brous, ciliate with short hairs. (Koch Comm.) Thefollowing description of the kind is taken from Mr.

Forbes in Sal. Wob .: — “ Branches villous, darkbrown, whitish when young; long and slender, angu-lated at the top of the young shoots, and distinctlywarted; forming a bush 4 ft. or 5 ft. high. Leaveslinear, from 3 in. to 4 in. long; minutely serrated,or, rather, furnished with a few glandular teeth to-wards the base ; margin slightly revolute; upper surface green and villous,beneath, thickly clothed with white cottony down : the young leaves arearevolute and snowy-white. Footstalks bearing at the summit two glan s >short and dilated at the base. Catkins appearing before the leaves, barrenones 1 in. long. The leaves of this species, Mr. Forbes observes, bear astrong affinity to those of S. viminalis; while the catkins, branches, and wo eof growth are quite different; and that it never rises more than 5 ft. or b •high.” Host has described, in the Sal. Austr., his S. riparia as an elegant treibut he may only mean a plant of tree-like figure, but slender and not ot c0 .^siderable height. Koch states that the species is found in a wild state,