14.94 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART III. 
S. carnidlica, mas et fem., Host Sal., 1. p. 13. t. 44, 45., Fl. Aust., 2, p. 641. Abundant in Car- 
niola, where it is used by the inhabitants, for many purposes; such as hedges for small gardens, 
meadows, and stony fields. It is also planted on the banks of streams, for fixing by its roots their 
sandy or gravelly banks, The shoots of the year are very long, unbranched, and tough: when 
peeled, they are yellow, and are much used in basket-making. At the time of flowering, many of the 
Ovaries become wounded by insects, and afterwards much enlarged. 
S. mirabilis, mas, Host SalJ., 1. p. 13. t. 46., Fl. Aust., 2. p. 641, Of the catkins upon a plant, 
some consist of male flowers only, some of female flowers only, and many of male flowers inter- 
mixed with female ones. In some catkins, male flowers occupy the lowest part of the catkin, 
and female flowers the remaining part; and catkins are found which have the flowers in the 
lower and upper part male, and in the intermediate part female. Each flower includes two 
distinct stamens, or two connate in the lower part, or connate to near the tip, or often a single 
stamen. It is not rare to find filaments devoid of anthers. These anomalies in the flowers of this 
species are probably alluded to in the epithet mirabilis. 
Group ii. Acutifolie Borrer. (Syn. Pruindsee Koch.) 
Willows with dark Bark, covered with a fine Bloom. 
Cara, 
Stamens 2, distinct. Tall shrubs, or becoming trees. Bark of the branches 
and shoots of a dark colour; that of the branches suffused with a whitish 
matter, which is the character implied by Koch’s term Pruinése. This matter 
is easily rubbed off. The bark is internally yellow, as in Group i. Foliage 
of a lively green. Leaves lanceolate, acuminately pointed, serrate, glossy ; 
in many instances, downy when young, subsequently glabrous. Ovary and 
capsule sessile, or nearly so. (Koch, Forbes, and observation.) 
2 * 7. S. acuriro‘L1a Willd. The pointed-leaved Willow. 
Identification. Willd. Sp. Pl., 4. p. 668. ; Koch Comm., p. 22. 
Synonyme. S. violacea Andr. Bot. Rep., t. 581., Smith in Rees’s Cyclo., No. 33., Forbes in Sal. 
Wob., No. 25., and of many English collections ; but not S. violacea Willd., nor the S, caspica Hort. 
(Wiild.) 
The Sexes. The male is figured in Sal. Wob., and is, perhaps, the only one cultivated in British col- 
lections. Koch has implied that the female was unknown to him in any state. 
Engravings. Andr. Bot. Rep., 581.; Sal. Wob., No. 25. ; and our jig. 25. in p. 1607. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves linear-lanceolate, acuminated, smooth, with blunt 
unequal serratures, glaucous beneath. Catkins of the male about 1 in. long. 
(Sal. Wob., p.49.) It is indigenous to Podolia, according to Besser. (Koch 
Comm.) It was introduced into Britain previously to 1810, as Mr. Borrer 
saw it growing in St. Andrew’s Square, Edinburgh, in that year. In England, 
it flowers in March or April, before the expansion of the leaves. It is a 
small tree, with dark violet-coloured branches, slender, upright, and co- 
vered all over with a whitish powder, like the bloom of a plum. Only 
the male plant is in the Woburn salictum. This is a very beautiful species, 
well deserving of culture in an ornamental point of view ; and Mr. Forbes 
thinks its twigs would be useful for wickerwork. The catkins of the male 
are ornamental, but, so far as we have seen, are not numerously produced. 
The leaves are rather elegant. Its shoots and roots have the inner part of 
the bark, or covering, of a yellow colour, and very bitter flavour; and, 
hence, this kind may be eligible for planting upon banks in which rats 
burrow. In the Horticultural Society’s Garden, in 1835, there was a plant 
of this species 15 ft. high. There are plants in the Hackney and Gold- 
worth arboretums ; and at Woburn Abbey, Flitwick House, and Henfield. 
~% 8. S. DapHNOI'DEs Villars. The Daphne-like Willow. 
Identification. Vill. Dauph., 3. p. 765., t. 50. f.7., “t. 5. f. 2.”” as quoted by Host ; Koch Comm., 
p. 23. 
Synonymes, SS. pre*cox Hoppe in Sturm D. Fl.,1.25., Willd. Sp. Pl., 4. p. 670., exclusively of the 
syn. of Host,’ Smith in Rees’s Cyclo., No. 40., Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 26. ; S. bigémmis Hoffm. 
Germ., 2. p. 260., Sal.,’t. 32.; S. cinerea Host Sal. Austr., 1. p. 8. t. 26, 27. Mr. Borrer, in a letter, 
has remarked that Smith has erroneously cited, in his Flora Brit., S. daphndides Villars as a 
synonyme of S. cinérea Smith; and that this has led Koch to cite S. cinérea Smith as a synonyme 
of S. daphnoldes Villars. 
The Sexes. Both sexes are figured in Sai. Wob., and both are described and figured in Host 
Sal. Austr. 
Engravings. Vill. Dauph., 3. t. 50. f. 7. 2or 3. t. 5, f. 2.; Hoff. Sal., t. 52.; Sal, Wob., No. 26.5 
ost Sal. Aust., 1. t. 26, 27.; our fig. 1295. ; and fig. 26. in p. 1608. 
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