CHAP. CIII.

AALICA'CEiE. Sa'lTX.

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Style cloven, longer than the cloven stigmas. (Smith Eng. FI.) A native ofScotland , on the Breadalbane Mountains; and England, on the banks of theTyne below Newcastle . Stem bushy; its branches, which are green the firstsummer, and afterwards of a sooty brown, are clothed with dense, short,curved down, which finally' disappears from the older ones. Leaves of arich bright green, blackish when dried, from 1 in. to H in. long, broadlyelliptical, acute, scarcely pointed, flat, finely crenate, or copiously and bluntlyserrated; paler, but not glaucous, underneath; more or less downy on bothsides, especially the midrib and veins, with minute hairs, their substancethin and pliant; the very young ones silky. Footstalks downy, and rathershort. Catkins of ripe capsules not above 1 in. long. (Ibid.) There areplants at Woburn, Fiitwick, Henfield, and Hackney.

Varieties. Mr. Forbes states that he has three varieties of S. Andersomona, inone of which the catkins are much shorter, and the capsules more looselyset on the rachis, or axis, of the catkin, than in the one figured in the Salic-twrn Woburnense. (Sal. Wob.)

111. S. damasce'na Forbes. The Damson-feared Willow, or Sallow.

Identification. Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 157.} Bor. in Eng. Bot Suppl., t 2709.: Hook. Br. Fl. ted. 3.

Synonymes. S. rfamascenifblia Anderson MSS.: S. phylicifblia Lin., a state of, Lindl. Synops. Br.Fl. , p. 234.

The Sexes. The female is described in Sal. Wob., and described in Eng. Bot. Suppl. fl Mr. Ander-son possessed both sexes, but we have seen the female only.” ( Borrer.)

Engraving. Eng. Bot. SuppL, t. 2709.

Spec. Char., $c. Upright. Young shoots densely hairy. Leaves ovate, orrhomboidal, bluntly toothed; silky when young ; at length nearly glabrous ;green oil both surfaces. Stipules half-heart-shaped. Catkins, with theflowers in blossom, longer than the floral leaves. Bracteas (scales) obovate.Ovary stalked, glabrous. Style divided, longer than the diverging stigmas.( Boner in Eng. Bot. Suppl.) Perhaps too nearly allied to S. AndersonwWto be properly regarded as a species. In that, the leaves, especially thelower ones, are more oblong, and their under side is not so absolutely devoidof a glaucous tinge; the catkins are shorter, and rarely overtop the larger,and generally leaf-like, bracteas of the catkin. The flowers, except that theyare more loosely set, and their bracteas (scales) more oblong and blacker,are very nearly the same in structure. If the footstalk of the germen issometimes naked (a state which we have not seen), it is usually hairy. (Ibid.)The late Mr. G. Anderson communicated to Mr. Borrer, in 1813, under themanuscript name of S. rfamascenifdlia, the S. damascena Forbes, as a speciesobtained from the south of Scotland and the borders, that he had cultivatedfor five years. The flowers appear with the young leaves, about the middleof April. The plant is a very' upright shrub, about 12 ft. high. The follow-ing description is quoted from Mr. Forbes : — “ Stem and branches erect,°f a dark brown mahogany colour, copiously marked with small yellowspots; round and brittle. The leaves are from 1 in. to If in. long, andrather more than f in. in breadth, of an elliptic figure, bluntly serrated;the serratures furnished with glands towards the points of the leaf; deepgreen and shining above, reticulated and glabrous beneath ; the prominentarched veins only besprinkled with a few long hairs; the young leaveshairy, but ultimately losing their pubescence and their glaucous hue. Footstalks long, slender, downy on both sides, and brown. The leaves andy°ung twigs of this species very much resemble those of the damson plumand of S. Anderson tana. There are plants at Henfield.

34 112. S. Ansonz4\?m Forbes. Anson’s Sallow, or Willow.

Wob., N °-107.

® female is described and figured in Sal. Wob.

J Sravmgs ‘ Sa] - Wob., No. 107.; and ou ffig. 107. in p. 1622.

® lar ;$c. Leaves elliptic, acute, bluntly and deeply serrated, glabrous;right green and shining above; beneath, glaucous and besprinkled withmute appressed hairs. Stipules large, rounded, serrated, glabrous. Ovary

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