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f i ?j * 166. S. alpi'na ? Forbes. The alpine Willow .
Identification. ? Forbes Sal. Wob., No. 149. Mr. Forbes has not quoted an authority for the name,though he has noted that he was indebted to Professor Don for a specimen.
Engravings. Sal. Wob., No. 149. ; and our fig, 149. in p. 1630.
Spec. Char., fyc, Leaves obovate, elliptic, entire; margins slightly revolute, densely silky on theupper surface; glaucous, reticulated, hairy underneath. Branches slender, and very black whendried. {Sal. Wob., p. 279.) “Dr. Graham kindly sent me living cuttings of a willow with thisname, alpina, from the Edinburgh Garden, in 1831; but I have not succeeded in cultivating it Ithink it much resembled S. cordifblia Pursh , which I formerly had growing.”
Identification. Pall. FI. Boss., 1. p. 2. 84. t. 82.; Itin., 3., Append., 759. t. K. k. f.7.; Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 683. ; Smith in Rees’s Cyclo., No. 68. ; Forbes in Sal.-Wob., No. 140.
The Sexes. The male is figured in Sal. Wob. ; the female is noticed in the SpecificCharacter.
Engravings. Pall. FI. Ross., 1. p. 2. t. 82.; Itin. Apperifl,, t. K. k. f. 7.; Gmel.Sib., 1. t. 35. f. 3.; Sal. Wob., No. 140.; our fig. 1355.; and fig. 140. in p. 1630.
Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves obovate, bluntish, with deep tooth-like serratures, glabrous,shining, ribbed, and reticulated with veins on both sides. Capsules ovate, glabrous.{Smith in Rees's Cyclo.) A native of Dauria, in rocky places on the loftiest moun-tains ; growing, along with Rhododendron chrysanthum, near the limits of per-petual snow. The stems are branched and diffuse. Leaves with disks not muchabove Jin. long, and so deeply toothed as to be almost pinnatifid; and veryhappily compared to those of the berberry. {Smith.) A variety with elongated7eaves is found in Kamtschatka . Introduced in ? 1824, and flowering in May.
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J 168. S. tejtraspe'rma Roxb. The four-seeded Willow .
Identification. Roxb. Corom., 1. p. 66.; Willd. Sp. PL, 4. p. 657.; Smith in Rees’s Cyclo., No. 9.:Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 31.
The Sexes, feoth sexes are figured in Rox. r Cor. and in Sal. Wob.
Engravings. Roxb. Corom., 1.1. 97.; Sal. Wob., No. 31.; an dfig. 31. in p. 1609.
Spec. Char., fyc. Leaf oblong-lanceolate, with the upper part acuminate; serrated, glabrous, glau-cous beneath. Flowers blossoming after the protrusion of the leaves. Male flower having 6 sta-mens. Ovary ovate, stalked. Style short. Wild in mountainous places in India , by the banksof rivers. {Willd. Sp. PI.) A native of India . Introduced in 1796, or soon afterwards. In itsnative country, it forms a middling-sized tree, with an erect trunk, but short, and as thick as aman’s body, bearing a very large branching head, with twiggy branches. It had not flowered inthe Woburn collection anteriorly to the date of the publication of that work in 1829.
5 169. S. hlmifo'lia Forbes. The Elm-leaved Willow, or Sallow .
Identification. Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 158.
The Sexes. The female is described in Sal. Wob., and in the Specific Character.
Spec. Char.,fyc. Stem erect. Leaves ovate.elliptic, serrated; glaucous beneath, shining above a;little heart-shaped and unequal at the base, acute at the tip. Stipules large, half-heart-shaped,serrated and glandular towards the stem. Ovary nearly sessile, ovate lanceolate, glabrous. Styleelongated, glabrous. Stigmas notched. Bracteas obovate, dark in their upper half, and fringed.{Sal. Wob., p. 286.) A native of Switzerland . Introduced in 1821, and flowering, in the Woburnsalictum, in April, and again in August. An upright bushy tree, attaining the height of 18 ft. oriqore. Branches round, pubescent, of a dark brown colour, and marked with many small redspots towards autumn. The leaves from 2in. to 2| in. long, and 1J in. in breadth, of an ovate-ellipticshape, sometimes hollowed out at the base ; finely serrated; green and shining above, glaucousand besprinkled with minute hairs underneath. Footstalks above § in. long, villous, like the mid-rib. Catkin slender, IJin. long when at maturity. Three applications of the epithet wlmifblia,besides the above, have been made; namely, S. wlmifblia ThuUl. Paris., 518., Pe Cand. Pi. Fr.,5. p. 340. {Koch Comm., p. 37-; Smith Eng. FI .); S. wlmifblia Schl. {Steud . Nom. Bot.) ; and S.almif&lia Hort. Berol. {Koch Comm., p. 42.) Koch has referred the first of these to S. ckprea, andSmith to S. aurlta ; the second is referred, in Steud . Nom. Bot., to S. nigricans Smith ; the third, byKoch, to his S. phylicifblia. ? Is Mr. Forbes’s distinct from all these. S. zrimifblia Thuill . is regis-tered in Hort. Brit., No. 24006., as having been introduced from Switzerland in 1821.
j* 170. S. villo'sa Forbes. The villou s-leaved Willow.
Identification. Forbes in Sal. Wob., p. 183.
The Sexes. The plant in the Woburn collection had not flowered in 1829.
Engravings. Sal. Wob., t. 92.; and fig. 92. in p. 1619.
Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves obovate-lanceolate, finely serrated towards the tip; rather slightly toothedand tapering towards the base; upper surface shining, and minutely covered with small hairs ; be-neath, glaucous, reticulated, and slightly hairy. {Sal. Wob., p. 183.) A small shrub, with slender,greenish yellow, villous branches, which are sometimes marked with yellow dots; growing here tothe height of 2 ft. The leaves are from 1 in. to 14 in. long, obovate-lanceolate, tapering towards thebase, minutely serrated at their tip, but generally finely toothed in the middle; often appearing asentire; their upper surface shining, besprinkled with very minute hairs ; under glaucous, reticu-^ te< L covered with small shining hairs. The whole substance of the leaves is very thin and tender,f 1 Forbes cannot unite this with the hitherto described species ; the leaves and slender growthof the branches being very different from any other species of the genus. It appears rather impa-tient of cold; and, as it suffers during the winter, that maybe one reason why it has not yetflowered. A S. villbsa Schleicher is registered in Steudel’s Nomenclator Botanicus s and such islikely to be indigenous to Schleicher’s country of residence, Switzerland , whether the kind noticedabove is identical with it, or not