1536 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM.. PART III. 
ovaries. (Hook, Br. Fl., p. 417.) A native of Scotland, 
on the Clova Mountains, and also near Dumfries ; growing 
to the height of 1 ft., and flowering in April. Botanists 
are not agreed as to what is precisely the S. arbuscula L. 
Smith deemed it to be this; but Mr. Forbes (Sa/. Wob., 
No. 86., and incidentally under No. 138.) and Mr. Borrer 
es Br. Fi., ed. 2.) have concluded that it is not. Mr. 
orbes was much inclined to regard it as not specifically 
distinct from S. rosmarinifolia Hing. Hl. and Eng. Bot.; 199) 
and Mr. Borrer, or Sir W.J. Hooker, or both, have regarded »* 
it as probably the same as the S. angustifolia Wulfen. As to its relation 
to S. rosmarinifolia, Sir W. J. Hooker says, “I agree with Mr. Borrer in 
thinking that they are distinct, though the difference lies almost entirely in 
their ovaries: these are shorter in S. angustifolia, with denser, less glossy, 
and less truly silky hairs, with ovate and quite entire stigmas, and more 
shaggy bracteas. There are plants at Woburn and Flitwick. 
«50, S. DEcu’mBENS Forbes. The decumbent Willow. 
Identification. Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 88. 
The Sexes. The female is described and figured in SaZ Wob. 
Engravings. Sal. Wob., No. 88.; and fig. 88. in p. 1618. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves linear-lanceolate, nearly entire; dull green and silky 
above, pale and densely silky beneath. Stipules lanceolate. Branches 
downy. Ovary ovate, silky, nearly sessile. Style elongated. Stigmas 
divided, (Sal. Wob., p. 175.) A native of ? Switzerland. Introduced in 1823, 
and flowering in May. A small shrub, with leafy downy branches, extending 
obliquely from the ground to the height of 1 ft.or 1 ft.6in. The leaves are 
from ]4 in. to 2in. iong, or more; linear-lanceolate, entire, or nearly so, 
some of them marked with a few glands about the middle; dull green and 
silky above, beneath densely silky ; the young ones have somewhat a silvery 
appearance underneath. Buds red before expansion. Catkins nearly 1 in. 
long. A very distinct species, resembling in foliage the male plant of 
S. rosmarinifolia. 
% 51. S.rusca’taA Pursh. The dark-brown-branched Willow. 
Identification. Pursh Fl). Amer. Sept., 8. p. 612.; Smith in Rees’s Cyclo., No. 110. 
The Sexes. The female is noticed in the specific character. 
Spec. Char., &c. Leaves obovate-lanceolate, acute, somewhat serrated ; glaucous beneath, downy 
when very young. Stipules minute. Catkins drooping. Bracteas (scales) obtuse, scarcely hairy 
on the inside, Ovary ovate, silky, somewhat stalked. Wild in North America, in low overflowed 
grounds on the banks of rivers, from New York to Pennsylvania ; flowering in March or April. 
Branches of the preceding year covered with a dark brown or black tomentum. (Pursh and Smith.) 
Introduced in 1811. 
Group xi. F%sce Borrer. 
Mostly procumbent Shrubs. 
Lames 
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Stamens 2 to a flower, as far as to the kinds whose male flowers have been 
observed. Ovary silky, stalked. Catkins ovate or cylindrical. Leaves 
between elliptical and lanceolate; mostly silky beneath; nearly entire. 
Plants small shrubs. Stem, in most, procumbent. SS. fisca L., Hooker, 
var. 1., and S. Donidua Smith, have a likeness in aspect to the kinds of the 
group Purpirez, except S. rubra Huds. (Hook. Br. Fl., ed. 2., adapted.) 
& 52. S.Fu’sca L. The brown Willow. 
Identification. Wook. Br. Fl., ed. 2., p. 417. ; ? Hayne Abbild., p. 242. 
Synonymes, S. repens Hook. Fi. ‘Scot., 1. p. 284.'; S. repens Koch, part of, Koch Comm., p. 47. The 
various synonymes to be cited below in application to varieties are, in effect, synonymes of the 
species also. 3 
The Sexes. The female is figured in Hayne Abbild., if the S. fasca of that work is the S, fisea L. 
Engravings. Hayne Abbild., t. 184, ; Sal. Wob. ; and our fig. 83. in p. 1618. 
