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Spec. Char., §c. Leaves broadly lanceolate, and pointed, with glandular ser- 
ratures, smooth, glaucous beneath. Catkins appearing before the leaves. 
Ovary sessile, ovate, smooth. Style elongated. (Sal. Wob., p. 51.) A 
native of Switzerland and the south of France; flowering at Woburn in 
February. Introduced in 1820. It is a rapid-growing tree, with dark 
greyish branches, slightly covered with a powder, or bloom, similar to that 
of S. acutifolia; the branches ascending obliquely. The tree at Woburn, 
though only four years planted, was, in 1830, nearly 25 ft. high. The 
catkins appear often in February, from large crimson buds, which dis- 
tinguish this species from every other, and make it very ornamental. 
There are plants in the arboretum of Messrs. Loddiges, and at Flitwick, 
and Henfield. 
Variation. The buds containing catkins are very large in the autumn; and, in 
this state, it is the S. pre‘cox gemmata Ser. Sal. exsicc., No. 83. (Koch 
Comm., p. 23.) . 
¥ 9, S. pomERA’NICA Willd. The Pomeranian Willow. 
Identification. Willd. Enum. Suppl., 66. ; Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 153. 
Synonymes. S. daphnodides Villars var., with narrower leaves, and more slender catkins. (Koch 
Comm., p. 23.) Mr. Borrer, in his manuscript list of gr@étped species, has indicated it as being 
probably a variety of S. daphnéides. 
The Sexes. The female is described in Sal. Wob. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves lanceolate, tapering at both extremities, serrated ; 
smooth and shining above, glaucous underneath. Stipules ovate, serrated ; 
their margins generally revolute. atkins about 1 in. long. Ovary 
ovate, smooth. Style longer than the parted stigmas. (Sal. Wob., p. 281.) 
A native of Pomerania. Introduced in 1822, and flowering, in the Woburn 
salictum, in February and March. This is a rapid-growing kind, much re- 
sembling, in the colour of its branches and its mode of growth, S. prae‘cox. 
The branches are long, smooth, round, shining, and copiously covered with 
small yellow dots: the preceding year’s shoots are covered with a violet- 
coloured powder, similar to that on the shoots of S. prae‘cox, and S. acutifolia. 
The leaves are about 4in. long, and nearly 1 in. broad, tapering towards 
both extremities, serrated ; the serratures somewhat glandular, smooth, and 
shining on their upper surface, and glaucous underneath. Footstalks nearly 
lin. long, purplish and villous on their upper side. Catkins appearing be- 
fore the leaves, and about lin. long. There are plants in the Goldworth 
Arboretum, at Woburn Abbey, Henfield, and Flitwick. 
Group iii. Tridndre Borrer. (Syn. Amygdalinee Koch.) 
Osier Willows, with three Stamens in a Flower. 
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Stamens 3. Leaves lanceolate, approaching to ovate, serrated, glabrous, 
having large, rounded, toothed, more or less deciduous, stipules. Flowers 
loosely disposed in the catkin. Pistil stalked. Ovary mostly glabrous. 
Most of the kinds constitute excellent osiers, and become trees if left to 
themselves. (Hook. Br. Fl., 2d ed., with adaptation.) The kinds may be 
denominated, generally, the osiers with 3 stamens in a flower. Most, or all, 
when in the state of larger shrubs and trees, have their older bark ex- 
folizted in broad patches, in the manner of that of the western and eastern 
plane trees (Platanus occidentalis L., and P. orientalis L.). Most or all 
are ornamental as shrubs, for their lanceolate, glossy, serrated leaves, and 
their flowers. 
¥ % 10. S. unpuLA‘ta Koch, Hooker. The wavy-leaved Willow. 
Identification. Koch Comm., p. 20.; Hook. Fl, Br., ed. 3., p. 419.; ? Hayne Abbild., p. 220. 
Synonymes. Koch has cited as identical with, or included in, S, undulata, the following kinds ;— 
