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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM.

PART III.

bent. In the Woburn salietum, it grows about 18 in. high, quite upright.Young branches brown, bearing a little short, soft, curved down ; not rigidprominent hairs, as in the S. fietulifolia Forster. Leaves broadly ovate,tolerably uniform, lin. long, or rather more, bluntly pointed, serratedthroughout, but not deeply ; quite glabrous, even, of a full shining greenon the upper surface, without any prominent veins; glaucous, veiny whenvery young only, besprinkled with a few silky elose hairs, beneath. Catkinsobtuse, of a brownish purple, much shorter than those of S. uacciniifolia,S. venuldsa, and S. carinata; and more like those of S. ietulifolia Forster.The branches are, likewise, more thickly clothed with upright, shorter leaves,than those of either S. venulosa or S. nacciniifolia. The above is de-rived partly from Smith, and partly from Forbes. There are plants atWoburn and Flitwick.

Variety.

S. p. stylo longidre Koch, style longer; S. yrunifolia Ser. Sal. Helv.,p. 49.; S. formosa Willd. Sp. PL, iv. p. 680.; S. fce'tida Schleich. Cent.,ii. n. 95.; S. alpina Sut. Helv., p. 283.—This is wild in Switzerland .(Koch Comm.) S. formosa Willd. is registered in Sweet’s HortusBritannicus as introduced in 1820.

m 148. S. venolo'sa Smith. The veiny-leaved Willow.

Identification. Smith FJ. Bib, 1055-; Eng, Bot., 1362. j Rees’s Cyclo., No. 57.; Eng. FI., 4.p. 195.Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 58.; Hook. Br. FL , ed. 3.

Synonyme. S. prunifblia, part of, Koch Comm., p. 41.

The Sexes. The female is figured in Eng. Bot. and Sal. Wob.

Engravings. Eng. Bot, 1.1362.; Sal. Wob.. No. 56.; and^. 56. in p. 1615.

Spec. Char.,8(c. Leaves ovate, serrated, naked, reticulated with prominent* veins above, ratherglaucous beneath. Capsules ovate, silky. Stem erect, much branched. ( Smith Eng. FL ) A nativeof Scotland , on the Breadalbane Mountains, where the blossoms are in perfection in June; but ingardens they flower in April; and, in the willow garden at Woburn Abbey , they flower a secondtime in August. In size and general habit, this species agrees with S. jjrunifolia; but the some-what narrower leaves differ materially on their upper surface, in their prominent, elegantly reticu-lated veins, conspicuous in the dried as well as growing specimens, especially towards the margin.The under side is generally less glaucous than in the two last; and, in having many close-pressedhairs, comes nearest to S. dacciniifolia. Catkins much longer and more slender than in S.^rum-fblia; and the whole shrub is more erect, and grows in the Woburn collection to twice the heightof either#. prunifbJia or S. yacciniifblia. ‘ SirW. J. Hooker agrees with Mr. E. Forster, in consideringS. venuibsa as only a variety of S. prunifblia; and, indeed, he doubts if S. prunifblia, S. carin&ta,and S. yacciniifblia, with S. venuibsa, are not different states of the same species; and Koch andDr. Lindley are of this opinion, having included them all under one species, S. pruiiifbfia- Weaccordingly consider those forms as varieties, though we have treated them, to a certain extent, asif they were species, for the sake of those who differ from us in opinion. Mr. Borrer has remarked,in the manuscript list with which he has favoured us, that probably S. arbdscula L. is the sameas one or more of the kinds S. yacciniifblia Walk., S. carinata Smith, S. prunifblia Smith, and A.

’ venuibsa Smith. There are plants at Woburn, Henfield, and Flitwick.

as 149. S. cje'sia Villars. The grey-leaved Willow.

Identification. Villars Dauph., 3. 768.; Smith in Rees’s Cyclo., No. 80.; Koch Comm., p. 59.

Synonymes. S. myrtWYoldesWilld. Sp. PL, 4. p. 686., exclusively of the synonymesof Linnffius Uy-rer), Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 66. (Borrer ); S. prostrkta Eftrh. PI. Select., p. 159., according to sc-ringe (Koch).

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

Engravings. Villars Dauph., 3. t. 50. f. 11. j Sal. Wob,, No. 66.and our fig. 66. in p. 1616.

Spec. Char., < fc. Leaves elliptic or lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, _ notshining, entire and revolute at the edge. Catkin upon a short leafy twiglet.Capsule ovate-conical, tomentose, seemingly sessile, eventually having avery short stalk. Gland reaching as high as the base of the capsule. Styleshortish. Stigmas ovate-oblong, entire, and bifid. ( Koch .) _Wild in theAlps of Dauphin^, and in Savoy, upon the mountain Enzeindog. (H)Registered as introduced in 1824. Mr. Forbes has given a detailed de-scription, whence we quote as follows :—“ A low straggling shrub, attainingthe height of 3 ft. or 4 ft., with slender shortish branches, dark brown ontheir upper side, pale beneath, somewhat wrinkled or striated. Leaves aDOU1 in. long, perfectly entire, wavy’, with a short sharp point; very 8“"!??'glaucous and veiny beneath; lower opposite, upper alternate. UMfrom | in. to nearly 1 in. in length, appearing, in the willow S. en .Woburn Abbey , along with the leaves, in April or May, and agam m .gust. Koch has noted ( Comm ., p. 52.) that S. cae'sia Villars diners