CHAP. CIII. SALICA‘\CER. SALIX. 1569 
Style cloven, longer than the cloven stigmas. (Smith Eng. Fi.) A native of 
Scotland, on the Breadalbane Mountains ; and England, on the banks of the 
Tyne below Newcastle. Stem bushy; its branches, which are green the first 
summer, and afterwards of a sooty brown, are clothed with dense, short, 
curved down, which finally disappears from the older ones. Leaves of a 
rich bright green, blackish when dried, from lin to 14 in. long, broadly 
elliptical, acute, scarcely pointed, flat, finely crenate, or copiously and bluntly 
serrated ; paler, but not glaucous, underneath; more or less downy on both 
sides, especially the midrib and veins, with minute hairs, their substance 
thin and pliant; the very young ones silky.  Footstalks downy, and rather 
short. Catkins of ripe capsules not above 1 in. long. (Jdid.) There are 
plants at Woburn, Flitwick, Henfield, and Hackney. 
Varieties. Mr. Forbes states that he has three varieties of S, Andersonidna, in 
one of which the catkins are much shorter, and the capsules more loosely 
set on the rachis, or axis, of the catkin, than in the one figured in the Salic- 
tum Woburnense. (Sal. Wob.) 
# 111. S. pamascre‘na Forbes. The Damson-/eaved Willow, or Sallow. 
1 epee Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 157.; Bor. in Eng. Bot. Suppl., t. 2709.; Hook. Br. Fl., 
Synonymes. S. damascenifodlia Anderson MSS. ; S. phylicifdlia Lin., a state of, Lindl. Synops. Br. 
+) P. 234. 
The Sexes. The female is described in Sal. Wob., and described in Eng. Bot. Suppl. ‘ Mr. Ander- 
son possessed both sexes, but we have seen the female only.” (Borrer.) 
Engraving. Eng. Bot, Suppl., t. 2709. 
Spec. Char., §c. Upright. Young shoots densely hairy. Leaves ovate, or 
rhomboidal, bluntly toothed; silky when young; at length nearly glabrous ; 
green on both surfaces. Stipules half-heart-shaped. Catkins, with the 
flowers in blossom, longer than the floral leaves. Bracteas (scales) obovate. 
Ovary stalked, glabrous. Style divided, longer than the diverging stigmas. 
(Borrer in Eng, Bot. Suppl.) Perhaps too nearly allied to S. Andersonidna 
to be properly regarded as a species. In that, the leaves, especially the 
lower ones, are more oblong, and their under side is not so absolutely devoid 
of a glaucous tinge; the catkins are shorter, and rarely overtop the larger, 
and generally leaf-like, bracteas of the catkin. The flowers, except that they 
are more loosely set, and their bracteas (scales) more oblong and blacker, 
are very nearly the same in structure. If the footstalk of the germen is 
sometimes naked (a state which we have not seen), it is usually hairy. (Jdid.) 
_ The late Mr. G. Anderson communicated to Mr. Borrer, in 1813, under the 
manuscript name of S, damascenifolia, the S. damascéna Forbes, as a species 
obtained from the south of Scotland and the borders, that he had cultivated 
for five years. The flowers appear with the young leaves, about the middle 
of April. The plant is a very upright shrub, about 12 ft. high. The follow- 
ing description is quoted from Mr. Forbes :—‘“ Stem and branches erect, 
of a dark brown mahogany colour, copiously marked with small yellow 
spots; round and brittle. The leaves are from lin. to 14in. long, and 
rather more than } in. in breadth, of an elliptic figure, bluntly serrated ; 
the serratures furnished with glands towards the points of the leaf; deep 
green and shining above, reticulated and glabrous beneath; the prominent 
arched veins only besprinkled with a few long hairs; the young leaves 
hairy, but ultimately losing their pubescence and their glaucous hue. Foot- 
stalks long, slender, downy on both sides, and brown. The leaves and 
young twigs of this species very much resemble those of the damson plum, 
and of S. Andersonidna. There are plants at Henfield. 
# 112. S. ANsonz4‘NA Forbes. Anson’s Sallow, or Willow. 
Identification. Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 107. 
The Sexes. The female is described and figured in Sal. Wob. 
Engravings. Sal. Wob., No. 107. ; and our jig. 107. in p. 1622. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves elliptic, acute, bluntly and deeply serrated, glabrous ; 
bright green and shining above; beneath, glaucous and besprinkled with 
minute appressed hairs. Stipules large, rounded, serrated, glabrous. Ovary 
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