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branches and brown twigs. Young shoots covered with short, horizontal,or deflexed hairs. Leaves on the upper surface slightly hairy, very darkgreen and shining; on the under one, bluish, and rather more hairy, orwoolly; at length glabrous on both surfaces, except on the petiole andmidrib, and losing, or very nearly losing, the glaucous tinge on the underone; the edges slightly recurved, serrated throughout with blunt gland-tipped teeth. Stipules remarkably large, serrated, having glands at theedge, and a few on the disk, near the point of insertion. The kind is re-markable for the long, dark, shining, wavy leaves, and large stipules, of itsstrong shoots. The flowers come forth with the young leaves about thebeginning of May. Catkin, in the earliest state of flowering, ovate, andusually less than ^ in. long; but it gradually becomes cylindrical, and 3 or 4times as long. (Ibid.) There are plants at Woburn, Henfield, and Flitwick.

$ 123. S. AMMANNZ/('A r /t Willd. Ammann’s Willow.

Identification. Willd. Sp. PI., 4-. p. 663.; Smith in Rees’s Cyclo., No. 21.

Synonymcs. S. phylicifbha var. Koch Comm., p.41.; S. ll/yrsinites Hoff. Sal., 1. p. 71. t. 17, 38,19,and 24. f. 2. [Smith in Rees's Cyclo.) “ S.stylkris Scringe. Monogr. des Saules de la Suisse, p. 62., isregarded as S. Ammanm'dna Willd. ( Borrer , incidentally in Eng. Rot. Suppl., t. 2725.)the Sexes. The female is noticed in the Specific Character.

Engravings. Hoffm. Sal., 1. p. 71. t. 17, 18, 19, and 24. f. 2. [Smith.)

Spec. Char., S;c. Leaves oblong-elliptical, acute, serrate, glabrous; glaucousbeneath. Petiole long, downy. Stipules ovate, dentate, persistent. Cat-kins protruded before the leaves. Ovaries lanceolate, glabrous. ( Willd.)Wild in the alps of Salzburg and Carinthia . (Id. and Smith.) Introducedin 1821.

a 124. S. atrovi'rens Forbes. The dark-green Sallow , or Willow.

identification. Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 108.

the Sexes. Both sexes are described and figured in Sal, Wob.

Engi-avings. Sal. Wob., No. 108. j and our fig. 108. in p.

Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves ovate-acute, bluntly serrated, nearly glabrous, heart-shaped at the base. Footstalks rather short, downy. Stipules large,rounded, serrated. Ovary awl-shaped, on a short stalk, downy. Styleglabrous, longer than the parted stigmas. (Sal. Wob., p. 215.) A native ofSwitzerland . Introduced in 1824, and flowering, in the willow garden atWoburn Abbey , in May. Ail upright shrub or tree, attaining the height of10 ft. or 12 ft. Branches dark brown, round, downy, and slightly striated.Leaves above 2 in. long, 1§ in. broad, of an ovate-heart-shaped figure,slightly hairy; glaucous beneath, with a downy midrib and prominent archedveins; margins bluntly serrated. Footstalks short. Catkins of the malerather more than in. long, and appearing with the leaves. A very distinctspecies, and easily distinguished by its dark green leaves, which are generallyheart-shaped at the base.

* 125. S. stre'pida Forbes. The creaking Willow, or Sallow .Identification. Sat Wob., No. 100.

Vie Sexes. The female is described and figured in Sal. Wob.

Engravings. Sal. Wob., No. 100.; and ourj%-. 100. in p. 1621.

Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves obovate-elliptical, acute, pubescent, glaucous beneath ;margins denticulated; the tip oblique. Stipules half-heart-shaped, serrated,and glabrous. Catkins oblong. Capsules awl-shaped, silky. Style long.Stigmas bifid. (Sal. Wob., p. 199.) A native of Switzerland . Introduced in1820, and flowering in March and April. This plant forms a stragglingbush, producing rather long pendulous branches, of a pale greenish colour,very pubescent, and soft to the touch; perfectly round. Buds of a purplishcolour, and hairy. Leaves about 2 in. long, and broadest about the middle ;the tip oblique, acute, and nearly entire; margins dentated, or slightlyserrated; the lower serratures, in some of the leaves, sometimes elongated ;upper surface of a dull green, pubescent; under surface glaucous, hairy, witha pale, prominent, and downy midrib. Footstalks rather short, sometimestinged with red. Catkins of the female 1 in. long. The shoots unfit for