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leaves, it is dissimilar to S. viminalis: its buds and leaves seem rather to 
indicate affinity to kinds of the group Cinérez. There are plants at Henfield. 
z 72. S.ca’npiva Willd. The whitish Willow. 
Identification. Willd. Sp. P1., 4. p.708. ; Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 2. p. 608.; Smith in Rees’s Cyclo., 
No, 138. ; Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 91. - 
The Sexes. The male is described and figured in Sal. Wob. 
Engravings. Sal. Wob., No. 91.; our fig. 1326. ; and fig. 91. in p. 1619. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves linear-lanceolate, very long, 
obscurely toothed ; downy above; beneath densely 
downy. Stipules lanceolate, nearly the length of the 
footstalks. (Willd.and Forbes.) A native of North Ame- 
rica. Introduced in 1811, and flowering, in the willow- 
garden at Woburn Abbey, about the end of February 
or beginning of March. Leaves from 3 in. to 4in. 
long ; linear-lanceolate, narrow towards their extre- 
mities,-obscurely toothed; margins slightly revolute ; 
downy above, snow-white and cottony beneath ; with 
a prominent midrib, and obscurely prominent lateral 
veins, owing to the down. Catkin of the male lin. long, cylindrical. A 
very handsome species, well deserving a place in shrubberies, both for its 
ornamental white leaves, and very early flowers. There are plants at 
Woburn and Henfield. 
Varieties. Mr Forbes mentions two varieties, one of which flowers full three 
weeks earlier than the other, and has the anthers of a less deep scarlet. 
(Sal. Wob.) 
2? ¥ 73. S. Inca‘NA Schranck. The hoary-leaved Willow, ? or Ones. 
a ea ae Schranck Baier (Bavar.) Fl., 1. p. 230.; Koch Comm., p. 32.; Forbes in Sal. Wob., 
0. 9 
Synonymes. _S. riparia Willd. Sp. Pl., 4. p. 698., Smith in Rees’s Cyclo., No. 111., Hayne Abbild., 
p. 245., ? Host Sal. Austr., 1. p. 17.; S. lavandulefolia Lapeyr. Abr., p. 601., Seringe Sal. Helv., 
p. 70. ; S. angustifdlia Por. in Du Ham. Arb., ed. 1., 3. t.. 29.; S. rosmarinifdlia Gouan Hort., 501., 
ee Saltsb., No. 38., Scop. Carn., p.527., Host Syn., 529.; S. vimindalis V722. Delph., 3. 
p. 785. 
The Sexes. Both are figured in Hayne Abbiid.: the male is figured in Sal. Woh., where Mr. Forbes 
has noticed that he had not seen the catkins of the other sex. Ifthe kind of Host Sal. Austr. is 
identical, both sexes of it are figured in that work. ; 
Engravings. Du Ham. Arb., ed. 1., 3. t.29.; Hayne Abbild., t. 187.; Sal. Wob., No. 90.; ? Host 
Sal. Austr., t. 58, 59. ; our fig. 1327. ; and fig. 90. in. p. 1619. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves linear-lanceolate, denticulated, hoary on the under 
surface with hoary tomentum. Catkins arched, slender, almost sessile, sub- 
tended at the base with small leaves. Capsule ovate-lanceolate, glabrous, 
stalked; the stalk twice the length of the gland. 
Style elongated. Stigmas bifid. Bracteas subgla- 
brous, ciliate with short hairs. (Koch Comm.) The 
following description of the kind is taken from Mr. 
Forbes in Sal. Wob.: —“ Branches villous, dark 
brown, whitish when young ; long and slender, angu- 
lated at the top of the young shoots, and distinctly 
warted; forming a bush 4ft. or 5 ft. high. Leaves 
linear, from 3in. to 4in. long; minutely serrated, 
or, rather, furnished with a few glandular teeth to- 
wards the base ; margin slightly revolute; upper surface green and villous ; 
beneath, thickly clothed with white cottony down: the young leaves are all 
revolute and snowy-white. Footstalks bearing at the summit two glands, 
short and dilated at the base. Catkins appearing before the leaves, barren 
ones 1 in. long. The leaves of this species, Mr. Forbes observes, bear a 
strong affinity to those of S. viminalis ; while the catkins, branches, and mode 
of growth are quite different ; and that it never rises more than 5 ft. or 6 ft. 
high.” Host has described, in the Sa/. Austr., his S. riparia as an elegant tree ; 
but he may only mean a plant of tree-like figure, but slender and not of con- 
siderable height. Koch states that the species is found in a wild state, in 
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