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Henfield, and Flitwick House, and also in the Hackney arboretum, under 
the name of S. hippophaefolia. The shoots are as valuable for basketwork 
as those of S. ribra. (4orbes.) 
2 37. S. REFLE’XA Forbex: The reflexed-catkined Willow. 
Identification. Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 94. 
The Sexes. The female is described and figured in Sal. Wob. 
Engravings. Sal. Wob., No. 94.5 and our fig. 94, in p, 1619. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves lanceolate, dentated, or distantly serrated ; cottony 
beneath; the older ones glaucous and glabrous. Stipules toothed, large, 
on shortish footstalks. Catkins reflexed, on short stalks. Ovary stalked, 
ovate, silky. Style short, divided. Stigmas parted. Bractea longer 
than the stalk of the ovary, obovate, obtuse, notched, hairy, black in 
its upper half. (Sa/. Wobd., p. 187.) A low spreading shrub; native 
country not stated; flowering in March; with round green branches, villous 
when young, marked with small yellow dots. Leaves from 3 in. to 33 in. 
long, scarcely lin. in breadth ; lanceolate, tapering towards their extremities, 
serrated, entire at the base; thickly covered with a short cottony substance, 
while young, underneath; finally, they lose this substance, and become 
perfectly glabrous and glaucous; the young ones are tinged with purple, and 
very soft to the touch : lower leaves very small, and obtuse. Catkins about 
lin. long, recurved, slender. A very useful willow for tying, and for 
the finer sorts of baskets and wickerwork, the younger twigs being very 
tough and pliant. 
a 38. S. virca’ta Forbes. The twiggy Willow. 
Idenlification. Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 12. 
The Sexes. Mr. Forbes states that, when seen by him, the catkins were withered, and unfit for 
examiniution. 
Engravings. Sal. Wob., No. 12., without flowers; and our fig. 12. in p. 1605. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves linear-lanceolate, glabrous, green on both surfaces, 
finely serrated. Stipules rounded or half-heart-shaped, serrated or toothed. 
Branches glabrous, shining. (Sal. Wob., p. 23.) A very distinct and hand- 
some sort, growing, in the Horticultural Society’s Garden at Chiswick, to 
the height of 1 ft. 6 in. or 2 ft., with small round, brown, glabrous, twiggy 
branches; flowering in May and June. In size, habit, and leaves it re- 
sembles S. Houstoniana. 
% 39. S. Lyo'nz ? Schl. Lyon’s Willow. 
Identification. Sal. Wob., No. 12. Mr. Forbes obtained this sort, under the name of S. Lydniz7, from 
’ Messrs. Loddiges, who had it, through M. Schleicher, from Switzerland. \ 
The Sexes. Mr. Forbes had not yet seen the catkins in 1829, when the Salictum Woburnense-was 
published. 
Engravings. Sal. Wob., No, 10., without flowers ; and our jig. 10. in p. 1604. 
Spec. Char., &c. Leaves alternate, lanceolate, elongated, pointed, serrated, 
glabrous, green and shining on both sides, veiny ; obtuse.at the base, some- 
times furnished with one or two glands. Branches round, glabrous, inclining 
to a reddish brown. (Sal. Wob., p. 19.) A native of Switzerland, intro- 
duced by Messrs. Loddiges previously to 1829, the date of the Salictum Wo- 
burnense. In the salictum at Woburn, it forms a bushy shrub, about 3 ft. 
in height, with reddish brown branches, which are round, glabrous, and 
shining; these, again, throwing out many small twigs from the axils of the 
leaves, which are villous when young. This species has not yet flowered 
with Mr. Forbes, who has given the figure without catkins. 
# 40, S. Housronz4‘v4 Pursh. Houston’s Willow. 
Identification. Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 2. p. 634. ; Smith in Rees’s Cyclo., No. 43.; Forbes in Sal. 
Wob., No. 11. 
Synonyme.. S. tristis. Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. ; f ; 
The Sexes. The male is described in» Pursh’s specific character, and the female is described and 
figured in Sal. Wob. 
Engravings. Sal. Wob., No. 11. ; and fig. 11. in p.. 1604. 
Spee. Char., §c. Leaves linear-lanceolate, and very finely serrated, gidbrous, 
shining, and ereen on both sides. Stipules none, Catkins accompanying 
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