chap. cm.
salica'ce^e. .s'a'lix.
1561
Synonyme. S. uliginbsa Willd. Enum ., 1007. (Smith and Koch) ; the trailing Sallow , so called inNorfolk . ( Smith E. F.)
The Sexes. Both sexes are described in Eng. FI., and figured in Eng . Hot., in Sal. Wob and inHaune Abbild.
Engravings. Hoffm. Sal., 1.1. 4. f. 1., 2. t. 22. f. 1 .5 Smith Lin. FI. Lapp., t 8 . f. y ; Hayne Abbild.,t, 188. j Eng . Bot., 1.1487. } Sal. Wob., No. 124. ; and our Jig. 124. in p. 1626.
Spec. Char., §c. Branches trailing. Leaves somewhat serrated, convex, obo-vate, obtuse, with a small hooked point; hairy, and reticulated with veins, onboth sides. Stipules roundish, convex, toothed. Ovary silky, stalked.Stigmas nearly sessile. ( Smith Eng. FI.) A native of England, in moistwoods and thickets; flowering in April and May. Stem bushy, usually 3 ft.or 4 ft. high. “ Branches spreading, or trailing, either amongst other bushes,or on the ground, to a great extent. Leaves various in size, on short, stout,downy footstalks, obovate, generally 1 in. or 2 in. long, more or less con-tracted towards the base, though sometimes rounded, or nearly ovate inthat part: their termination is often remarkably obtuse or abrupt, with abroad, short, recurved, hooked, or oblique point; both sides hairy, and veryrugged; the upper side dark green, wrinkled like a cabbage leaf; under sidepaler, rather glaucous.” ( Smith Eng. FI.) “ The leaves occasionallyform permanent rosaceous tufts like those of S. He lix.” (Ibid.) Thereare male and female plants both at Wobum Abbey and in Messrs. Loddiges’sarboretum; and from the latter we have received a specimen of S. ambigua,which seems to be S. aurlta.
Varieties. Koch and Smith have referred the S. uliginosa Willd. and S. aurltaWilld. to the S. aurlta L.; and Koch has thus contradistinguished the twoformer : — S. uliginosa Willd. Taller. Leaves obovate. S. aurlta Willd.Dwarfer. Leaves roundish obovate, smaller by half. Mr. Forbes has noticedthat a variety was growing in the Woburn plantations which was about 1 ft.or 1 ft. 6 in. high, and had its leaves truly obovate. Koch has deemed theS. cladostemma Hayne Dendr. FI., p. 191. and fig. b, c, a singular variety ofS. aurlta, and characterised it as having 2,3, or 4 stamens to a flower, andthese with their filaments connate to beyond the middle. We have a spe-cimen obtained of Messrs. Loddiges, under the name of S. aurlta micro-phylla, whose leaves are oblong, and do not look of the affinity of S. aurlta.Smith judged (Flor. Brit, and Eng . FI.) the S. caprea pumila, folio subro-tundo, subtus incano, of Dillenius in Raii Syn., to be a dwarf variety of Saurlta; but Mr. Borrer has expressed, in Eng . Bot. Supp., t 2733., hisopinion that this “ is probably a synonyme of S. ambigua.”
a 96. S. latifo'lia Forbes. The broad-leaved Willow, or Sallow .
Identification. Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 118.
The Sexes. The female is described and figured in Sal. Wob.
Engravings. Sal. Wob., No. 118.; mi fig. 118. in p. 1625.
Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves broadly elliptic, distantly denticulated towards thebase, and finely serrated towards the point. Stigmas half-moon-shaped, ser-rated, glabrous, and large. Capsules ovate, silky, and footstalked. Bracteaovate, hairy. Style about the length of the stigmas. (Sal. Wob., p. 235.) Na-tive country not stated. Flowering in March. A straggling plant, with strong,round, pubescent branches, which are of a brown fuscous colour, and be-come nearly glabrous towards the lower end in autumn. Leaves of a largeelliptical form, a little heart-shaped and unequal at the base; above, greenand shining ; beneath, glaucous, downy, and reticulated; the margins re-motely denticulated, and nearly entire towards the base; finely serrated at theapex. Footstalks j in. long, and pubescent. Catkins nearly 1 in. long when atmaturity. A kind quite distinct from every other of this section, and re-markable for the breadth of its leaves, which differ in texture from those ofo. grisophylla, that are also broad. There are plants at Woburn, Henfield,and m the Goldworth Arboretum.
Identi
, 0 Lin - Sp- PI., 1448. * (Smith ); 'Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 703., exclusively of the synonyme’ uan ' ( s ™dh ); Hayne Abbild., p. 249. j Smith Eng. Bot, 1.1488. j Rees’s Cyclo., No. 126. ;