1552 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART II]. 
some kinds of wickerwork. There are plants at Henfield, and at Messrs. 
Loddiges’s. 
2? ¥ 80. S. MicuEeLr4‘na Forbes. Michel’s Willow. 
Identification. Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 135. 
Synonymes. ?S. holosericea Willd., 4. p. 708. (Forbes) ; ? S. holosericea var. (Borrer in a letter.) 
The Sexes. The male plant is figured and described in Sal. Wob. Mr. Forbes had not seen the 
flowers of the female. 
Engravings. Sal. Wob., t.135.; and fig. 135. in p. 1629. 
Spec. Char., §c. Stem erect. Leaves lanceolate, pointed; flat and villous 
above; greyish, downy, and reticulated beneath. Stipules ovate, acute, 
serrated, Filaments long, yellowish. Anthers yellow. Bractea elliptical, 
hairy. (Sal. Wob., p. 269.) Flowering in April. This plant grows to the 
height of 12 ft. or 15 ft., although it has not been cultivated above four 
years. The branches of the preceding year are of a dark brownish green 
colour, and somewhat villous; those of the present year’s growth more of 
a yellowish brown, and densely covered with a fine pubescence. Leaves 
from 3 in. to 4in. long, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate when fully grown ; 
flat, villous, and ultimately shining above; reticulated, greyish, soft and 
downy beneath; upper leaves denticulated with small glandular teeth, 
entire towards the base; lower leaves quite entire, gradually smaller. Foot- 
stalks about 4 in. long, ‘downy, pale yellow. Catkins of the male copious, 
nearly sessile, appearing before the expansion of the leaves. Mr. Forbes 
doubts whether this may not be the S. holosericea of Willdenow; but he 
retains the name of S. Micheliana, which he received with the plant from 
the Horticultural Society’s Garden, till he has an opportunity of seeing the 
catkins of the female, so as to aid him in coming to a decision. There are 
plants at Woburn. 
* 81. S. FERRUGI‘NEA Anderson. The ferruginous-/eaved Sallow, or 
Willow. 
Identification. Anderson MS, ; Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 128. ; Borrer in Eng. Bot. Suppl., t. 2665. ; 
Hook. Br. F1., ed. 3., p. 427. 
The Sexes. Both sexes are described and figured in Eng. Bot. Suppl.: the female is described and 
figured in Sal. Wob. 
Engravings. Sal. Wob., No. 128, ; Eng. Bot. Suppl., t. 2665. ; and our jig. 128, in p. 1627. 
Spec. Char., §&c. Leaves lanceolate, having at the edge wavy crenatures and 
small teeth ; hairy with minute hairs on both surfaces, paler on the under 
one; thininsubstance. Stipules small, half-ovate. Bracteas oblong-lanceo- 
late. Ovary silky, stalked. Style about as long as the oblong stigmas. 
(Borrer in Eng. Bot. Suppl.) The late Mr. G. Anderson, who distinguished 
and named the species, discovered it near Carlisle, in 1809; and found it 
afterwards in Fifeshire and other counties of Scotland; and by the Thames, 
near Windsor, Reading, &c. The female has been observed, also, near 
Nuthurst, Sussex. (Jd.) The following description is taken from that 
given by Mr. Forbes in Sal. Wod. :—‘ A bushy shrub or low tree ; flowering 
in April, and growing, in the willow garden at Woburn Abbey, to the height 
of 12 ft. or 14 ft., with shortish, green, fuscous branches, round, downy, and 
somewhat of a rusty hue when young, especially towards autumn ; ; but ofa 
more pale yellow in an earlier state. Leaves from 2}in. to 3in. long; 
obovate-lanceolate, tapering towards the base, with rather long oblique 
points; flat, villous, and dark green above; densely silky, reticulated, and 
greyish beneath ; lower leaves entire, scarcely lin. long; upper ones finely 
serrated towards the apex, or rather furnished with distant, minute, glan- 
dular teeth, entire towards the base; the rusty hue also visible in the 
older leaves. Catkins of the female from lin. to 14in. long, appearing 
before the leaves.””> Mr. Forbes deems this a kind “of sallow; and its 
rounded tumid buds show an affinity to the sallows. Mr. Borrer has placed 
it in the group Viminales, and is of opinion that it comes nearest to S. 
Smithzdna: he adds, of the young leaves, that “the newly expanded leaves 
of the male are beautifully tinged with brownish purple, which is nearly, 
