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1584 ARBORETUM AND FRU'TICETUM. PART Il. 
cies, and much nearer to S. arbascula Wahlenb. Mr. Borrer nas remarked on this as follows :— 
“<I am not acquainted with S. livida Waki. If this prove S. bicolor EArh., our S. bicolor, which 
is the plant of the German gardens, as I conclude from Mertens having given it me as S. bicolor, 
may bear Forbes’s name of floribinda, unless Schrader’s older name, discolor, belongs to it: see 
Koch, p. 46.” (Borrer in a letter.) 
The Sexes. The male is described in Sal. Wob., and figured in Eng. Bot. and Sal. Wob.; some 
notice of what Mr. Borrer deems the female is given in Hook. Br. Fi., ed. 2. 
Engravings. : Eng. Bot., t. 2186. ; Sal. Wob., No. 54.; and our fig. 54. in p. 1615.; ? Hayne Abbild., 
t. 180., where the sex figured is the male. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves elliptical, green and shining above, glabrous and 
glaucous beneath ; serrated, ending in oblique points. Stipules crescent- 
shaped, serrated. Catkins of the male copious, bright yellow. Filaments 
slightly bearded at the base. (Sal. Wob., p. 107.) A native of Britain ; flower- 
ing, in the willow garden of Woburn Abbey, in April, and again in July. A 
bushy spreading shrub, with short yellow branches, slightly villous when 
young; the older ones rather a yellowish green, quite glabrous ; rising to the 
height of 6 ft. or 8 ft., with bright yellow catkins in April, and again in July. 
Leaves elliptical, acute, serrated, glabrous ; shining above, glaucous and veiny 
beneath; glabrous in every state of growth, with the exception of a slight 
downiness on the very youngest leaves, which are always of a purplish 
colour; midrib and footstalks glabrous, yellow. Stipules crescent-shaped, 
_ serrated. This is a very ornamental species when in flower; neither are the 
leaves destitute of beauty; and, when the shrub is cut down, it produces 
tough, flexible twigs, that are good for tying, basketwork, &c. __S. bicolor 
has become 10 ft. high with Mr. Borrer. (Eng. Bot. Suppl., t. 2660.) 
There are plants at Henfield. 
% 143, S. PHILLYREIFO‘LIA Borrer. The Phillyrea-leaved Willow. 
Identification. Borrer in Eng. Bot. Suppl., t. 2660. ; Hook. Br. Fl., ed.2. p. 417. 
The Sexes. Both sexes are described and figured in Eng. Bot. Suppl., the female in the fruit- 
bearing state. 
Engraving. Eng. Bot. Suppl., t. 2660. 
Spec. Char., &c. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate,; acute at each end, strongly serrated, glabrous on both 
surfaces, glaucous on the under one. Stipules small. Young shoots pubescent. Bracteas (scales) 
oblong, hairy, longer than the glabrous stalk of the glabrous ovary. Style as long as the stigmas. 
In the arrangement of the kinds, this one may stand between S. bicolor and S. Dicksonzana, in 
both of which: the leaves are for the most part obsoletely serrated, and of a figure approaching to 
obovate with a point. (Bo77er.) Mr. Borrer has thus stated its localities ina wild state. Highland 
valleys of Scotland, particularly in Glen Tarfe, near Fort Augustus, Inverness-shire ; and in the 
vicinity of Ben Lawers, Perthshire. He has termed it a beautiful kind. The male, growing in 
his garden since 1810, had become, in 1830, an upright much branched shrub, about 5 ft. high ; and 
it flowers in about the middle of April, before the leaves appear, and sometimes again at mid- 
summer. Catkins numerous, cylindrical, 3 in. long, closely set with flowers. The leaves, in size, 
figure, and serratures, bear no slight resemblance to those of Phillfrea latifolia: when young, they 
are sprinkled on both surfaces with minute appressed hairs, but become at length glabrous, except 
in the upper surface of the petiole and midrib. The disk of the leaf is scarcely more than 1 in. 
long, and has its upper surface of a bright, shining, full green; the under surface bluish: the petiole 
is about a third of the length of the disk. There are plants at Henfield. 
144, S. Dicksonz4a‘Né Smith. Dickson’s Willow. 
Identification. Smith Eng. Bot., t. 1390. : the figure is bad, and has led to doubts as to this species, 
which only authenticated specimens could remove. (Borrer in Eng. Bot. Suppl., t. 2663., inci- 
dentally.) Willd. Sp. Pl., 4. p. 696. ; Smith in Rees’s Cyclo., No. 60. ; Eng. FI., 4. p. 196. ; Forbes in 
Sal. Wob., No. 55.; Hook. Br. FL, ed. 3. 
Synonyme. S. myrtilloides Smith Fl. Brit., p. 1056., not of Lin. 
The Sexes. The female is described in Eng. Fl. and Sal. Wob., and figured in Eng. Bot. and Sal. 
Wob. Smith has noticed, in his English Flora, that he had not observed the stamens. 
Engravings. Eng. Bot., t.1390., see under Identification, above; Sal. Wob., No. 55.; and our 
ig. 55. in p. 1615. 
Spec. Char., §&c. Leaves elliptical, acute, slightly toothed, glabrous ; glaucous 
beneath. Young branches very glabrous. Catkins ovate, short, erect. Ovary 
stalked, ovate, silky. Stigmas nearly sessile. (Smith Eng. Fi., iv. p. 196.) 
Leaves, for the most part, obsoletely serrated, and ofa figure approaching to 
obovate with a point. Ovary and its stalk densely silky. (Borrer in Eng. 
Bot. Suppl., t. 2660., incidentally.) A native of Scotland; flowering in 
April. The foilowing traits are derived from Mr. Forbes’s description : —“A 
low-growing upright shrub, attaining the height of 18 in. or 2 ft., with 
smooth yellow branches ; the preceding year’s are greenish and scaly. The 
leaves are elliptic, obovate, minutely serrated in the middle, or denticulated ; 
entire at both extremities ; glabrous and shining above, and very glaucous 
