1504 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART III. 
Wahlenb. Flora. Ups., according to Koch Comm., p..14., Smith in 
Rees’s Cyclo., No. 1.— The catkins bearing rarely male flowers and 
female ones, and some of the stamens being changed into monstrous 
pistils. 
¥ 17. S. MeyEerRZ4‘vA Willd. Meyer’s Willow. 
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Identification. Willd. Berl. Baumz., p. 427.; Hayne Abbild., p. 222.; Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 33. 5 
Hook. Br. FI., ed. 3., p. 421. 
Synonymes. Koch, in his Comm., p. 14., has presented the following : —“‘ S. cuspidata Schultz FI. 
Starg. Suppl., p.47.; S. tinctdria Smith in Rees’s Cyclo., No. 13.; S. pentandra 6 Linn. Fl. Suec., 
according to Smith; S. hexandrd Ehrh. Arb., 140.; S. Ehrhart¢ana Smith in Rees’s Cyclopedia.” 
Koch has adopted the name S. cuspidata Schultz. S. tetrandra Willd. is quotedas synonymoug 
in Hook. Br. Fi., ed. 3. 
The Sexes. The male is figured in Hayne’s Abbild., and described and figured in Sal. Wob., unless 
some mistake as to the kind has occurred : see Borrer, below. The female is mentioned in Koch’s 
Com., and Hooker’s Br. Fi., ed. 3., p. 421. 
Engravings. Hayne Abbild., t. 162. ; Sal. Wob., No. 33., with a dcubt, at least, as to the flower- 
bearing specimen ; our fig. 1300.; and jig. 33. in p. 1610. 
Spec. Char., §c. J.eaves ovate-elliptic, pointed, glabrous, green, and shining 
above, rather pale beneath, but not glaucous, serrated ; the serratures of 
the young leaves glandular. Stipules soon falling off. Stamens 3—4. 
Bractea obtuse, yellow. (Sa/. Wob., p.65.) Koch has stated the geogra- 
phic distribution of S. cuspidata Schultz, to which he refers the S. Meyeriana 
Willd., to be Pomerania and Sweden, in meadows, and woody and marshy 
places. Germany is given as the native country of this kind in our Hortus 
Britannicus, and in Sweet’s: and the date of its introduction into Britain is, in 
the former, 1822; in the latter, 1823. Mr. Borrer states that the insertion of 
this kind in Hook. Br. Fl., ed. 3., as a native of Britain, arose from a mistake 
of his. (See Borrer in Comp. to Bot. Mag., p.225.) It forms a handsome- 
growing tree, with brownish smooth branches, which are slightly warty ; and 
large, broad, shining leaves, somewhat unequal, and obtuse at the base, often 
broadest above the middle: of an ovate-elliptic shape, pointed; green, 
smooth, and shining above; pale, but not glaucous, beneath; strongly serrated, 
and the serratures of the younger leaves furnished with glands. Nearly 
allied to S. lucida, which, however, has smaller leaves, and longer, more 
slender, catkins. It flowers in April. S. Meyeridna is a desirable kind 
of willow for introducing into ornamental plantations of the coarser kind, 
as it grows quickly, and has large shining leaves, and the catkins of 
flowers of the male are ornamental. It assimilates to S. pentandra in its 
flowers, but is obviously distinct from that kind when the two are seen 
growing near together. It is of freer growth, is more robust, and its leaves 
are longer, narrower, and more shining. Mr. Borrer has communicated 
the following remarks relative to the figure of S. Meyeridna, given in Sal. 
Wob., No. 33.:—“ I never saw the catkins sessile, as represented in Sal. 
Wob., t. 33., but always on leafy stalks, as in S. lucida, t. 32. Possibly the 
two figures represent the same species. In American specimens of S. lucida 
Mihi. and Willd., there is some silkiness on the young leaves. Still they 
may be of the same species as S. Meyeriana; and, if so, S. lucida is the 
older name.” There are plants at Woburn Abbey, at Henfield, and at Flit- 
wick House, the latter of which are 13 ft. high. 
¥ 18, S.Lu‘cipa Miihlenb. The shining-leaved Willow. 
Identification. Miihlenb. Nov. Act. Soc. Nat. Scrut. Berol., 4. p. 239. t. 6. f.7.; Willd. Sp. PL, 4. 
667.; Muhlenb. Sims et Kin. Ann. of Bot., 2. 66.t..5.f.7.; Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 2. p. 615. ; 
Smith in Rees’s Cyclo., No. 32.; Michx. North Amer. Sylva, 3. p. 81.; ? Forbes in Sal. Wob., 
No. 32., who has quoted Willd. with doubt. 
Synonymes. S. Forbésit Sweet Hort. Brit., ed. 1830; where it is stated to be not the S. lucida of 
others, and where the S. licida of Spreng. Syst.,{which is the S. lucida Miihlenb., is registered 
besides. : 
bp tno The male is described and figured in Sal. Wob., and noticed below, in the Specific 
aracter. 
Engravings. Nov. Act. Soc. Nat. Scrut. Berol., 4. t. 6. f. 7. ; Sims et Kon. Ann. of Bot., 2. t. 5. f. 7. 5 
Michx. North Amer. Sylva, 3. t. 125. f. 3.; ?Sal. Wob., 32.; our jig. 1301, ; and fig. 32. in p. 1610, 
Spec. Char.,§c. Leaves ovate, acuminate, serrated, glabrous ; shining above, pale 
beneath; the serratures resinous. Footstalks glandular. Stipules large, 
half-heart-shaped, serrated, and furnished with glands. Catkins of the male 
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