CHAP. cm. awlica'ce^. s-a^lix. H'93 



late-oblong, with shallow serratures, smooth, rounded at the base, glaucous 

 beneath. Stamen 1. Style nearly as long as the linear divided stigmas. 

 {Smith Eng. F/.) A native of England, fiovvering in April. The stem is^ 

 erect, bushy, with upright, slender, smooth twigs, very flexible and tough, of 

 a greyish yellow, not purple, hue. Fertile catkins extremely like those of 

 S. Helix, "but the leaves widely different. A valuable species for the finer 

 sorts of wickerwork, and for basket-making, bands for tying taggots, 

 packets, &:c. When cut down, plants make shoots from 5 ft. to 7. ft. long. 

 There are plants at Hackney, Goldworth, Woburn, and Flitwick. 



^ t 6. S. ru'bra Huds. The red, or green-leaved. Willow, or Osier. 



Identification. Huds. Fl. Angl., p. 4^8.; Smith's Eng. Bot., t. 1145. ; Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 674.; 



Smith's Eng. Fl., 4. p. 191. ; Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 6. ; Hook. Br. Fl., ed. 3., p. 4IS. ; Mackay's 



Fl. Hib , pt. 1. p. L'44. ; ? Hayne Abbild., p. 230. 

 Synmiytnei. The name riibra seems to be originally given to S. vitelUna, a reddish [? twigged] 



variety of which was confounded with .S. rubra //«(/4-. {Smith.); S. riibra, in part, Kuch^Comm., 



p. 26.; S. I'lssa Hoffm. Sal., 1. p. 61. t. 13, 14. (Sni/t/i) ; S. cuncolor Ho.st Sal. Aust, 1. p. 10. t. 34, 



35., from Host's citation of Ray; S. viresrens Vill. Daupk., 3. 785. t. 51. 30. {Smith) ; S. linearis 



Walker's Essays, p. 467., on the authority of Borrer. 

 The Sexes. Both are described in Ejtg. i-V. ; and the female is figured in Eng. But. and Sal. Wob. 

 Engravings. Eng. Bot., t. 1145.; Sal. Wob., No. 6. ; ? Host Sal. Aust., t. 1. t. 34,35.; ViUars 



Dauph., 3. t. 51. f. 30. (Smith.) ; ? Hayne Abbild., 171. ; and our^g. 6. in p. 16M. 



Spec. Char., c^c. Stamens combined below iu a manner which affords a cha- 

 racter in which it differs from all other British kinds of willow, except S. 

 CrowewHC, and from nearly all the foreign kinds. Mr. Borrer, however, has 

 observed the same thing occasionally in S. fusca, and in several of the Cinerese. 

 " Leaves linear-lanceolate, elongate, acute, smooth, with shallow serratures ; 

 green on both sides. Stigmas ovate, undivided." (Swifh E. F.) A native of 

 Britain (in England, in low metulows and osier holts, as at Maidenhead, &c., 

 but rare ; in Scotland, frequent in hedges and o.sier grounds) ; flowering in 

 April and May. In its wild state, it forms a small tree. The branches are 

 long, upright, smooth, greyish or purplish, more frequently tawny, and very 

 tough and pliant. The leaves are very long and narrow, and agree in 

 shape with those of the common osier, .S'. viminalis; but have not, as tiuit 

 has, dense white pubescence beneath. (Smith.) Koch considers the S. For- 

 hy(i?ia of Smith as a variety of S. rubra ; and states that both are common 

 about Erlangen, where there is also another variety, which he regards as a 

 hybrid between S. rubra and S. viminalis. The leaves of this kind, even 

 when adult, have their under sm-face covered with a dense silky down, like 

 those of S. viminalis ; the young shoots bear stipules the length of the 

 petiole, like those of S. stipularis ; and the catkins resemble those of ^. rubra. 

 There are plants of 5. riibra at Hackney, Goldworth, Wobuin, Henfield, and 

 Fhtwick. When the plants of this species are cut down, they send out 

 shoots from 3 ft. to 8 ft. in length; and it is consequently one of the most 

 valuable osiers in cultivation, for bands, crates, basketwork or wickerwork, 

 and even small hoops. 



Statistics. In the garden of the Horticultural Society of Lendon, 10 years planted, it is 12 ft. high ; 

 at Shepperton, on the Thames, it is 30 ft. high. 



App. i. Purj)iirecE of 'which Plants have been introduced, but not 



described, 



S. clUptica Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. Leaves resembling S. H61ix, but narrower. 



App. ii. Purpurea: described by Authors, but not yet introduced, 

 ' or of doubtful Identity "with Species already in the Country. 



S. cdncolor, mas et fern.. Host Sal., 1. p. 10. t. 34, 35., Fl. Aust., 2. p. 639. ; syn. S. minima 

 fragihs tuliis longissimis, K-c, Baii Si/n., 449. In the Enn. Fl., Ray's species is identified with S. 

 riibra ; but Host's plant may possibly be something different. 



S. UUix, mas et fem.. Host Sal., 1. p. 10. t. 36, 37., Fl. Aust., 2. p. 639. This species. Host 

 observes, when growing among trees, becomes a tall tree ; but under other circumstances is dwarfer. 



S. opposilifdlia, mas et fem.. Host. Sal., 1. p. 11. t. 38, 39., Fl. Aust., 2. p. 640. Host has applied 

 to this a syn. of Ray, which identifies it with & Helix L. 



S, purptin-a, mas et fem.. Host Sal., 1. p. 12. t. 40, 41., Fl. Aust., 2. p. 640. The catkins re.semblc 

 those of the .S. purpurea of British botanists ; and, hence, the two plants may be identical. 



S. muidhili.%, mas et fem.. Host Sal, 1. p. 12. t. 42, 43., Fl. Aust., 2. p. 640. Very diflerent from 

 the S. mutabilis of Sal. Wob. 



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