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of the trunk 2 ft., and of the head 99 ft. In Lanarkshire, in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, 16 years 
planted, it is 55 ft. high. In Banffshire, at Gordon Castle, it is 56 ft. high. In Perthshire in the 
Perth Nursery, 8 years planted, it is 22 ft. high. F 
Salix Glba in Ireland. In Kilkenny, at Woodstock, 65 years planted, it is 70 ft. high; the dia- 
meter of the trunk 32 ft., and of the head 65 ft. In Sligo,at Makree Castle, it is 65 ft. high ; the 
diameter of the trunk 5 ft. and of the head 60 ft as 
Salix dlba in Foreign Countries. In France, at Nantes, in the nursery of M. De Nerriéres, 30 years 
penton 3 is 33ft. high. In Bavaria, at Munich, in the Botanic Garden, 84 years planted, it 1s 
50 ft. high. 
“¥ 27. S.virevui‘na L. The yolk-of-egg-coloured, or yellow, Willow, 
or Golden Osier. 
Identification. Lin. Sp. Pl., 1442.; Willd. Sp. Pl., 4. p. 668.; Host Sal. Aust., 1 p. 9. t. 30, 31.; 
Hoff, Sal., 1. p. 57. t. 11, 12. and 24. f. 1. (Smith); Smith Eng, Bot., t. 1389.; Eng. Fl., 4 p. 182. , 
Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 20.; Hook. Br. Fl.; ed. 3., p. 423.; Mackay Fl. Hibern., pt. 1. p, 248. 
Synonyme. S. alba Koch Comm., p. 16: 
The Sexes. Both sexes are figured in Eng. Bot., Sal. Wob., and Host Sal. Aust. 
Engravings. Hoffm. Sal., t. 11, 12. and 24. f. 1.; Host Sal. Aust., t. 30, 31.; Eng. Bot., t. 1589. ; 
Sal. Wob., No. 20. ; jig. 20, in p. 1606. ; and the plate of this tree in our last Volume. 
Spee. Char., §c. Leaves lanceolate, acute, with cartilaginous serratures ; 
~ glabrous above; glaucous, and somewhat silky beneath. Stipules minute, 
lanceolate, deciduous, smooth. Ovary sessile, ovate-lanceolate, smooth. 
Bracteas linear-lanceolate, acute, fringed at the base, longer than the pistil. 
(Smith Eng. Fi., iv. p. 182.) _ 8. vitellina, strangely referred to S. albaas a 
variety by the great Haller, differs from S. alba obviously in its longer, more 
taper catkins; lanceolate, pointed bracteas; glabrous filaments; and gla- 
brous adult leaves, and, perhaps, in other marks. (Smith, incidentally in Eng, 
Fi., under S. alba.) |“ Hoffmann observes that the inner layer of the bark 
in S. vitellina is yellow, while that of S. alba is green; but I have great 
doubts of the constancy of this character.” (Smith, under S. vitellina.) A 
native of Britain, in hedges ; and cultivated in osier grounds, in many places ; 
and readily distinguished from all the other sorts, by the bright yellow 
colour of its branches. It has been introduced from Europe into North 
America, where, according to Mr. Pursh, it is common by road sides and 
in plantations.” (Smith in his Eng. Fl.) It is much cultivated for basket- 
work, tying, &c., and also as an ornamental shrub or tree. The rods, being 
tough and flexible, Sir J. E. Smith says, are “ fit for many purposes 
of basketwork, as well as for package.” As an ornamental tree, Salix 
vitellina is very striking in the winter season, especially among evergreens, 
As a shrub, it is not less so, both among evergreen shrubs and deciduous 
kinds, having the bark of conspicuous colours. In the English garden at 
Munich, extensive masses of this willow are placed in contrast with masses 
of the white-barked honeysuckle (Lonicera Xylésteum), the red-barked 
dogwood (Cérnus alba), and the brown-barked spirzea (S. opulifolia). 
The outlines of the masses at Munich are lumpish and formal, and the one 
mass is by no means blended with the other as it ought to be; but still the 
effect, in the winter season, is very striking, and well deserves imitation by 
the landscape-gardeners of this country. The tree of this species in the 
Horticultural Society’s Garden, which is a male, and a very handsome tree, 
was 30 ft. high in 1835, after having been only ten or twelve years planted. 
Both male and female plants are in the Hackney arboretum and at Wo- 
burn Abbey. 
Variety. Smith, in his Eng. Fl., under S. rubra, and Koch in his Comm., p. 16., 
have cited a variety or variation of S. vitellina, with reddish branchlets. 
Statistics. In Hertfordshire, at Cheshunt, in the arboretum of William Harrison, Esq., on the 
banks of a stream, 7 years planted, it is 33 ft. high. In Ireland, in Galway, at Coole, it is 
54 ft. high ; the diameter of the trunk 2 ft., and of the head 57ft. In Bavaria, in the Munich 
Botanic Garden, 84 years planted, it is 50ft. high. In Austria, at Vienna, in the University 
Botanic Garden, 30 years planted, it is 40ft. high ; the diameter of the trunk 1 ft. 6in., and of the 
head 28 ft: at Briick on the Leytha, 30 years planted, it is 30 ft. high. 
App. i. A’ibe described, but which, probably, have not been intro- 
duced into Britain. 
S. excélsior Host Sal. Aust., t. 28, 29. 
