1592 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART ITI. 
native of Lapland; flowering there in July, and, in the 
willow garden at Woburn Abbey, in April, and again in “Was 
\{4 July. Introduced in 1820. The branches and leaves of ~ 
/ this species are more tender during the spring than those of R 
S. herbacea; the stem is almost filiform. Leaves broadly 
1350 ovate, or somewhat roundish, ovate, or obovate; hardly 
ever so narrow as to be called oblong; and shining on both sides. Mr. 
Forbes says this plant bears a strong affinity to 8. herbacea; but that the 
silky germens and glaucous leaves clearly show it to be distinct. There 
are plants at Henfield. 
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Group xxiil. Hastate Borrer. 
Low Shrubs, with very broad Leaves, and exceedingly shaggy and silky Catkins. 
(Hook Br. Fl.) 
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% 163. S.masta‘ra ZL. The halberd-/eaved Willow. 
Identification. Lin. Sp. Pl., 1443. ; Fl. Lapp., ed. 2., 293.; Willd. Sp. Pl., 4. p. 664. ; Smith in Rees’s 
Cyclo., No. 22.; Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 35. 
Synonyme. S. hastata Koch, part of, and, if the kinds indicated below as varieties be admitted as 
such, all of Koch’s S. hastata, except S. Wulfenidna Willd., Koch Comm., p. 42. 
The Sexes. The female is described and figured in Sal. Wob. Smith has noted in Rees’s Cyclo that 
he had not seen male flowers. ? 
Engravings. Lin, Fl. Lapp., ed. 2. t. 8. f. 9.; Sal. Wob., No. 35. ; our fig. 1352. ; and fig. 35. in p. 1611. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves ovate, acute, serrated, undulated, crackling, glabrous ; 
heart-shaped at the base, glaucous beneath. Stipules unequally heart- 
shaped, longer than the broad footstalks. Catkins very woolly. Ovary 
lanceolate, glabrous, on a short stalk. (Smith in 
Rees’s Cyclo.) A native of the mountains of Lap- 
land. It is said that Messrs. Lee and Kennedy 
first brought it into this country, in about 1780. It 
rises to a small spreading tree, and flowers in April 
or May. Branches blackish, hairy when very young 
only. Leaves 3in. long, and about half as wide. , 
(Id.) It generally attains the height of 4ft. to 5 ft. ( 
( Forbes.) Koch, viewing the species as comprising " 
the varieties indicated below and S. Wulfeniana SiG 
Willd., has given the geographical distribution of <3 
it as follows :— Moist places, and by rivers in the 
alpine and subalpine regions of Savoy, Switzerland, 
Germany, and Carpathia, Sweden, and Britain. Its 
most certain British station seems that discovered 
by Mr. F. Drummond, “by a small stream that passes through the sands 
of Barrie, near Dundee.” (Bor.) In the north of Sweden, it inhabits 
the bogs of the lower regions and plains. S. malifolia Smith, indicated 
below as a variety of S. hastata, is the kind of the latter that is indigenous 
to Britain. Koch, according to his view of the contents of S. hastata 
as a species, has ascribed to it a variousness in the form of the leaf of from 
lanceolate to ovate, with a heart-shaped base. 
Varieties. 
~ & S.A. 2 serrulata, — Leaves broadly ovate, heart-shaped at the base ; 
synon. S. hastata Willd. Sp. Pl.,iv. p.664. But Wahlenberg has 
accurately remarked that the description relates to a shoot devoid 
of flowers : the same kind, in a flower-bearing state, is the S. serru- 
lata Willd. Sp. Pl., iv. p. 664. (Koch Comm., p.43.) This variety of 
Koch’s we consider as blended in our first, or typical, kind. Willde- 
now has given Lapland as the native country of both his S. hastata 
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