16^ AMENtACtJi; 



is common in wet woods, meadows, and osier-gronnds in some parts of the 

 kingdom. Its branches are erect, ronnd, slender, smooth, and, when young, 

 sHghtly downy, and of reddish-green colour. The leaves are somewhat 

 waved at the margin, three or four inches long, the upper surface green and 

 soft, from a scarcely perceptiljle silky down upon them, while on the under 

 surface the silky down renders them white and glossy as satin : the midrib 

 and veins are red. The catkins are small and numerous, appearing on the 

 leafless branches in March and April. It is the *S'. moUissima of some 

 writers. 



23. Long-leaved Sallow {S. acumimUa). — Leaves lanceolate-oblong, 

 pointed, wavy, finely-toothed, glaucous, and downy beneath ; stipules half 

 egg-shaped ; ovary distinctly stalked. This Willow grows in hedges, and in 



" Many a ^\•oodlalld dim, 

 Mid buried paths, where sleepy twilight dreams 

 The summer time away," 



and where the stream is trickling to the tune of the rustling leaves. It is, 

 perhaps, however, not truly wild. It is usually a low tree, rarely exceeding 

 twenty feet in height ; and the authors of the "British Flora" remark, that 

 when in flower it can be distinguished from the two last species only by its 

 shorter stigmas. Its cylindrical catkins appear in March and April. The 

 branches are upright, soft, and downy ; the leaves are about an inch broad, 

 and three or four inches long, either flat or wrinkled, the upper side green, 

 free from down, the under pale, or of sea-green hue, soft and downy, with a 

 strongly-marked somewhat red midrib and veins, the stout reddish foot- 

 stalks being about half an inch in length. 



24. Ferruginous Sallow {S. femighwa). — Leaves lanceolate, with 

 wavy roundish notches, and small teeth, hairy on both sides, paler beneath ; 

 stipules small, half egg-shaped ; ovaries distinctly stalked. This sjaecies was 

 first observed near Carlisle in 1809, and has since been found in Fifeshire 

 and other parts of Scotland, as well as on the banks of the Thames. 

 Mr. Forbes, in the "Salictum Woburnense," thus describes it: "A bushy 

 shrub, or low tree ; flowering in April, and growing in the AVillow-garden at 

 YVoburn Abbey to the height of twelve or fourteen feet, with shortish, green, 

 fuscous branches, round, downy, and somewhat of a rusty hue while young, 

 especially towards autumn, but of a more pale yellow in an earlier state. 

 Leaves from two and a half inches to three inches long, lanceolate, tapering 

 towards the base, with rather long oblique points ; flat, downy, and dark 

 green above ; densely silky, reticulated, and greyish beneath ; lower leaves 

 entire, scarcely an inch long, upper ones finely serrated towards the upper 

 part, or rather furnished with minute distant glandular teeth, entire towards 

 the base ; the rusty hue is also visible on the lower leaves." The catkins of 

 this species are from an inch to an inch and a half long, and ajjpear in March 

 and April. 



Qrou'p X. CiNER^. — Borr. 



Stamens 2 ; capsules stalked, covered with silky wool ; catkins thick, 

 sessile, appearing before the leaves ; leaves stipuled, very veiny beneath, 

 more or less wrinkled. Trees or shrubs. 



