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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM.

PART ill.

native of Lapland ; flowering there in July, and, in the|\ willow garden at Woburn Abbey , in April, and again inJy| July. Introduced in 1820. The branches and leaves ofthis species are more tender during the spring than those ofS. herbacea; the stem is almost filiform. Leaves broadly1350 ovate, or somewhat roundish, ovate, or obovate; hardlyever so narrow as to be called oblong; and shining on both sides. Mr.Forbes says this plant bears a strong affinity to S. herbacea; but that thesilky germens and glaucous leaves clearly show it to be distinct. Thereare plants at Henfield.

Group xxiii. Hastate Borrer.

Low Shrubs, with very broad Leaves, and exceedingly shaggy and silky Catkins.

(Hook Br. FI.)

I *1 La-st 163, S. hasta'ta L. The halberd-Zcamf Willow.

Identification. Lin. Sp. PI., 1443.; FI. Lapp., ed. 2., 293.; Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 664.; Smith in Rees’sCyclo., No. 22.; Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 35.

Synonyme. S. hast&ta Kqch, part of, and, if the kinds indicated below as varieties be admitted assuch, all of Koch’s S. hastdta, except S. Wulfeniona Willd., Koch Coram., p. 42.

The Sexes. The female is described and figured in Sal. Wob. Smith has noted in Rees’s Cyclo thathe had not seen male flowers.

Engravings. Lin. FL Lapp., ed. 2. t. 8. f. 9.; Sal. Wob.,No. 35.; our fig. 1352.; and fig. 35. in p. 16J1.

Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves ovate, acute, serrated, undulated, crackling, glabrous;heart-shaped at the base, glaucous beneath. Stipules unequally heart-shaped, longer than the broad footstalks. Catkins very woolly. Ovarylanceolate, glabrous, on a short stalk. ( Smith inRees's Cyclo .) A native of the mountains of Lap-land. It is said that Messrs. Lee and Kennedyfirst brought it into this country, in about 1780. Itrises to a small spreading tree, and flowers in Aprilor May. Branches blackish, hairy when very youngonly. Leaves 3 in. long, and about half as wide.

(Id.) It generally attains the height of 4ft. to 5 ft.

(Forbes.) Koch, viewing the species as comprisingthe varieties indicated below and S. WulfenidrcaWilld., has given the geographical distribution ofit as follows Moist places, and by rivers in thealpine and subalpine regions of Savoy, Switzerland ,

Germany, and Carpathia, Sweden, and Britain . Itsmost certain British station seems that discoveredby Mr. F. Drummond, “ by a small stream that passes through the sandsof Barrie, near Dundee.” (Bor.) In the north of Sweden , it inhabitsthe bogs of the lower regions and plains. S. malifblia Smith, indicatedbelow as a variety of S. hastata, is the kind of the latter that is indigenousto Britain . Koch, according to his view of the contents of S. hastata

. as a species, has ascribed to it a variousness in the form of the leaf of fromlanceolate to ovate, with a heart-shaped base.

Varieties.

a S. h. 2 serruldta. — Leaves broadly ovate, heart-shaped at the base;synon. S. hastata Willd. Sp. PL, iv. p. 664. But Wahlenberg .hasaccurately remarked that the description relates to a shoot devoidof flowers : the same kind, in a flower-bearing state, is the 5._serru-lata Willd. Sp. PL, iv. p. 664. (Koch Comm., p. 43.) This variety otKoch’s we consider as blended in our first, or typical, kind. Willde-now has given Lapland as the native country of both his S. hastata

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