1544 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART III. 
Synonymes. S. elwagnifolia Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 69., where the name is quoted as one adopted 
by M. Schleicher ; S. glaiica var., with leaves lanceolate, more narrow and more acute, and with 
flowers in the catkin a little more laxly disposed. (Koch De Sal. Europ. Comm.) 
The Sexes. The female is described and figured in Sal. Wob.; but the male is neither mentioned 
there, nor by Koch, 
Engravings. Sal. Wob., No. 69. ; and fig. 69. in p. 1616. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves entire, ovate-elliptic, nearly glabrous above, woolly and 
white beneath. Catkins cylindrical. Ovary nearly sessile, ovate, downy. 
Style elongated. Stigmuas bifid. (Forbes in S. W.) A native of Europe. In- 
troduced in 1824; flowering in May, and, in the willow garden at Woburn 
Abbey, in April, and again in August. This is an upright-growing shrub, at- 
taining the height of 6 ft.; the leaves and branches much resembling those 
of S, glaaca, but distinct; the leaves being of a thinner texture, with a 
different direction of their finer veins. The leaves are of an ovate-elliptic 
shape, nearly glabrous on their upper surface, white and woolly underneath. 
Catkins of the female 2 in. long, and cylindrical. 
x 61. S. GLau’caL. The glaucous Mountain Willow. 
Identification. Lin. Sp. Pl., 1446.; Fl. Lapp., ed. 2., 299. t. 8. f.p, t. 7. £. 5. ; but it is not S. sericea 
of Villars (Smzth.) ; Wahlenb, Fl. Lapp., 264. t. 16. f 3.; Willd. Sp. Pl., 4 p. 687. ; Smith in Rees’s 
Cyclo., No. 84.; Koch Comm., p. 55. ; Smith Eng. Bot., t. 1810. ; Eng. Flora, 4. p. 201. ; Forbes in 
Sal. Wob., No. 68. ; Hook. Br. FL,.ed. 2., p. 419. 
a an S. appendiculata FF’. Dan., t.1056., Wélld. Sp. Pl., 4. p. 690., Smith in Rees’s Cyclo., 
0. 93. 
The Sexes. Both sexes are described in Eng. Fl. ; the female is figured in Eng. Bot., and in Sal. 
Prcannes Lin. Fl. Lapp., ‘ed. 2., t.8. fp, t.7.£5.; Wahl. Fl. Lapp, t. 16, f. 3.; Eng. Bot., 
t, 1810. ; Sal. Wob., No. 68.; Hall. Hist., 2. t. 14. f. 2. ; our fig. 1324. ; and fig. 68. in p. 1616. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves nearly entire, elliptic-lanceolate; even, and nearly 
glabrous above; woolly and snowy-white beneath. Footstalks decurrent. 
Ovary sessile, ovate, woolly. (Smith E. F.) A native of the High- 
lands of Scotland; flowering there in July, but, in the ; 
willow garden at Woburn Abbey, in May. Described 
by Smith as having a stem 2 ft. to 3 ft. high, stout, 
bushy, with numerous short, round, spreading, brown 
or yellowish branches, downy in their early state. < 
Leaves nearly 2in. Jong, and 4in. or 2in. wide; 
elliptic-lanceolate, acute, somewhat rounded at the 
base; nearly, if not in every part, quite entire; the 
upper side of a beautiful glaucous green, the under 
one densely downy or cottony, of no less elegant and 
pure a white, with slightly prominent veins, and a 
reddish midrib. In the willow garden at Woburn Abbey the plant is 18 in. 
high; there are plants also at Henfield. 
-« 62. S. seri’cEA Villas. The silky Willow. 
Identification. Villars Delph., 3. p. 782. t. 51. f. 27.; Willd. Sp. Pl., 4. p. 688. 
Synonyme. S. glatica, a synonyme of Koch Comm., p. 56. “* S. sericea of Villars, according to his 
own specimens, is the true Lappdnum ; and I have Swiss ones, properly so named, from M. Schleicher. 
It is Haller’s No. 1643.” (Smth in Engl. Fi., 4. p. 202.) 
The Sexes. Willdenow has described the female, and noted that he had seen it in a dried state. 
Engravings. Vill. Delph., 3. t. 51. f. 27.; and jig. 74. in p. 1617. 
Spec. Char., §c. Stem prostrate. Leaf oblong-lanceolate, entire, obtuse, 
silky and hoary on both surfaces. Catkins silky, stout. Capsules ovate- 
oblong, stout, very villous, sessile. Very different from S. glaica L. (Willd., 
Villars in Willd. Sp. Pl.) Branches brown, glossy. Leaves 2in. long, 
covered with long appressed hairs. Stipules are not apparent. Catkins 
1 in. long, cylindrical. Bracteas lanceolate, hairy, caducous. Style short, 
bifid. Stigmas dilated, bifid. Wild in the Alps of Switzerland and France. 
(Id.) Introduced in 1820. Mr. Forbes has a kind under the name S, sericea, 
but has quoted Willdenow in identification, with a mark of doubt, The 
following matter is taken from Mr. Forbes’s account. Leaves oblong- 
lanccolate, very entire, both sides silky, glaucous beneath. Ovary ovate, 
villous, nearly sessile. Styledeeply divided, Stigmas parted. (Sal. Wod., 
p- 147.) Anative of Switzerland. Introduced in 1820, and flowering, 
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