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crenate, or notched with shallow, flat, or slightly waved, gland-pointed 
teeth. Petiole about a quarter of the length of the disk. Catkins of the 
male numerous and showy ; produced about the beginning of April, earlier 
than in the generality of mountain willows. (#. B. S.) Ovary lanceolate 
subulate, on a long stalk, quite glabrous; style long, bifid; stigmas linear, 
bifid. (Hooker.) This kind, cultivated in the willow garden at Woburn 
Abbey, produced its flowers before the expansion of the leaves in April; 
and again, when the plant was in full leaf, in July. Trained to a single stem, 
it would form a very handsome small tree for suburban gardens. There 
are plants at Flitwick and Woburn. 
vy 135. S. Davaturé‘vaé Smith. Davall’s Willow. 
Identification. Smith Eng. FI., 4. p. 175., as far as to the Scottish kind ; Borrer in Eng. Bot. Suppl., 
t. 2701. ; Smith’s British specimens, not his Swiss one, were taken from the same individual as ours 
(Borrer) ; Forbes in Sal. Wob. No. 47. ; Hook. Br. Fl., ed. 3. 
Synonymes. S. tétrapla Walker (Anderson); S. phylicifdlia Willd. (Mertens); these relate to the 
female of the Scottish kind (Borrer): S. thymeleodides Schleicher. (Forbes in Sal Wob.) 
The Sexes. The female is described and figured in Eng. Bot. Suppl. Mr. Borrer is not acquainted 
with the male, but has added a figure of a specimen of what Mr. Anderson regarded as such, 
prepared from a‘sketch made from one of Mr. Anderson’s specimens in 1811. Two sexes are 
figured in Sai. Wob. As it is most probable that Mr. Borrer knew of these, perhaps he deemed 
the male erroneous. 
Engravings. Eng. Bot. Suppl., t. 2701. ; Sal. Wob., No. 47.; and our fig. 47. in p. 1614. 
Spec. Char., §c. Upright. Leaves obovate lanceolate, flattish, very acutely 
pointed, obscurely toothed or serrated; glabrous on both surfaces, somewhat 
glaucous on the under one. Stipules minute. Young shoots and petioles 
pubescent. Bracteas obovate, silky. Ovary stalked, acute, silky. Style 
as long as the divided stigmas. (Borr. in Eng. Bot. Suppl.) The female 
is a native of Scotland. We have specimens from Teesdale that seem of 
the same species. (Borr.) A bushy shrub, with ascending branches, 
scarcely exceeding 4:ft. high. Twigs tinged with brown. (Borr.) It grows 
with me to from 6ft. to 7ft. high, with upright, dark brown, shining branches. 
Forbes.) Leaves about 14in. long (Borr.), lin. broad, on luxuriant 
shoots (forbes); upper surface dark green and shining, under surface pale, 
and more or less glaucous. Petiole rather long and slender. Catkins of 
the female about lin. long. The flowers appear when the leaves begin to 
expand, about the end of April. (Borr.) There are plants at Woburn, Hen- 
field, and Flitwick. 
? Variety. 
% S. Davalliana Smith, the Swiss kind. (Smith Eng. Fl., iv. p. 175.) —Bor- 
rer has not identified, in Eng. Bot, Suppl., this with the Scottish 
kind; hence it becomes right to register it separately. The fol- 
lowing notice of it is derived from Smith Eng. F/.: — M. Davall 
sent a specimen of the kind to Smith, in 1790, from Switzerland. 
This specimen, when shown to Professor Mertens, was pronounced 
by him to be of the S. phylicifolia of Willdenow and other German 
botanists. “ It is not, however, that of Linnzus, nor, apparently, 
that of Wahlenberg.” It agrees with the female of the Scottish 
kind, except that the ovary, and all parts of the catkin, are much 
less silky. 
2 136. S. TE’TRAPLA Smith. The four-ranked Willow. 
Identification. Smith Eng. F1., 4. p. 177., exclusively of the citation of Walker ; Hook. Br. Fl., ed. 2., 
p. 426., exclusively of the citation of Walker; Borrer in Eng. Bot. Suppl., t. 2702. ; ? Forbes in Sal, 
Wob., t. 49. Borrer has not quoted the last. 
The Sexes. The female is described and figured in Eng. Bot.; the figure in Sal. Wob., whether of 
, this kind or not, is of the female; and a male is described there. Male flowers not known to 
Mr. Borrer ; but who has found S. ramiftisca Forbes (Sal. Wob., t. 53.), from recent specimens in 
leaf, so similar to S. tétrapla Smith, that he can scarcely doubt of that being the male of this. 
Engravings. Eng. Bot. Suppl., t. 2702. ; ? Sal. Wob., No, 49.; and our fig. 49. in. p. 1614. 
Spec. Char., c. Upright. Leaves lanceolate, twisted, somewhat carinate, 
very acutely pointed, serrated ; nearly glabrous on both surfaces, glaucous 
on the under one. Stipules small, half-heart-shaped. Young shoots and 
petioles pubescent. Bracteas lanceolate, silky. Ovary stalked, bluntish, 
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