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of the trunk 2 It., and of the head !»<) ft. In Lanarkshire, in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, Ifi year* 



tianted, it is 5j ft. high. In Banllshire, at Gordon Castle, It is 5G ft. high. In Perthshire, in the 

 erth Nursery, 8 years planted, it is '."2 ft high. 



S<i/ij alba in Ireland. In Kilkenny, at Woo<istock, &3 years planted, it is 70 ft. high; the dia- 

 meter of the trunk jj ft., and of the head (ij ft. In Sligo, at Makree Castle, it is G5 ft. high ; the 

 diameter of the trunk l> ft. and of the head filjtt 



SiUiz dlba in Foreign Countries.- In France, at Nantes, in the nursery of M. De Nerrifires, 30 ytars 

 planted, it is 33 ft. high. In Bavaria, at Munich, in the Botanic Garden, 84 years planted, it is 

 50 ft. high. 



i 27. S. viTELLr.NA L. The yolk-of-egg-coloured, or yellow. Willow, 

 or Golden Osier. 



Identification. Lin. Sp. PI., 1W2, ; Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 668. ; Host Sal. Aust., 1. p. 9. t. 30, 31.; 

 Hotf. Sal., 1. p. 57. t. n, 1-2. and 24. f. 1. (Smith) ;■ Smith Eng. Bot, t. 1389. ; Eng. Fl., 4. p. 182. , 

 Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. iiO. ; Hook. Br. Fl., ed. 3., p. 423.; Mackay Fl. Hibern., pt. 1. p. 248. 



Si/tiotiyme. S. ftlba Koch Co7nm., p. 16. 



The Sexes. Both so.xcs are figured in Eng. Bot., Sat. Wob., and Host Sal. Ausf. 



Engravings. IIoQin. Sal., t. 11, 12. and 24. f. I. ; Host Sal. Aust, t. 30, 31. ; Eng. Bot., t 1389. ; 

 Sal. Wob., No. 20. ; Jig. 20. in p. 1606. ; and the plate of this tree in our last Volume. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves lanceolate, acute, with cartilaginous serratures ; 

 glabrous above ; glaucous, and somewhat silky beneath. Stipules minute, 

 lanceolate, deciduous, smooth. Ovary sessile, ovate-lanceolate, smooth. 

 Bracteas linear-lanceolate, acute, fringed at the base, longer than the pistil. 

 {Smith Eng. FL, iv. p. 18-2.) iS'. vitcllina, strangely referred to S. alba as a 

 variety by the great Haller, differs from S. alba obviously in its longer, more 

 taper catkins ; lanceolate, pointed bracteas ; glabrous filaments ; and gla- 

 brous adult leaves, and, perhaps, in other marks. (Smith, incidentally in Eiig. 

 FL, under S. alba.) " Hoffmann observes that the inner layer of the bark 

 in S. vitellina is yellow, while that of S. alba is green ; but I have great 

 doubts of the constancy of this character." (Smith, under S. vitellina.) A 

 native of Britain, in hedges ; and cultivated in osier grounds, in many places ; 

 and reailily distinguished from all the other sorts, by the bright yellow 

 colour of its branches. It has been introduced from Europe into North 

 America, where, according to Mr. Pursh, it is common by road sides and 

 in plantations." (Smith in his Eng. Fl.) It is much cultivated for basket- 

 work, tying, &c., and also as an ornamental shrub or tree. The rods, being 

 tough and flexible. Sir J. E. Smith says, are " fit for many purposes 

 of basketwork, as well as for package." As an ornamental tree, ^alix 

 vitellina is very striking in the winter season, especially among evergreens. 

 As a shrub, it is not less so, both among evergreen shrubs and deciduous 

 kinds, having the bark of conspicuous colours. In the English garden at 

 Munich, extensive masses of this willow are placed in contrast with masses 

 of the white-barked honeysuckle (Lonicera Xyl6steum), the red-barked 

 dogwood (C'ornus alba), and the brown-barked spiraea (S. opulifolia). 

 The outlines of the masses at Munich are lumpish and formal, and the one 

 mass is by no means blended with the other as it ought to be ; but still the 

 effect, in the winter season, is very striking, and well deserves imitation by 

 the landscape-gardeners of this country. The tree of this species in the 

 Horticultural Society's Garden, which is a male, and a very handsome tree, 

 was 30 ft. high in 1 835, after having been only ten or twelve years planted. 

 Both male and female plants are in the Hackney arboretum and at Wo- 

 burn Abbey. 



Variety. Smith, in his Eng. FL, under S. rubra, and Koch in his Comm., p. 16., 



have cited a variety or variation of S. vitellina, with reddish branchlets. 



Statistics. In Hertfordshire, at Cheshunt, in the arboretum of William Harrison, Esq., on the 

 banks of a stream, 7 years planted, it is 'H ft. high. In Ireland, in Galway, at CooJe, it is 

 54 ft. high ; the diameter of the trunk 2 ft., and of the head 57 ft. In Bavaria, in the Munich 

 Botanic Garden, 84 years planted, it is .W ft. high. In Austria, at Vienna, in the University 

 Botanic Garden, 30 years planted, it is 40ft high ; the diameter of the trunk 1 ft 6in., and of the 

 head 28ft: at Briick on the Leytha, 30 years planted, it isoOft high. 



App. i. A'lha: described^ but Kkich, probably^ have not been intro- 

 duced into Britain. 



5. exciUior Host Sal. Aust, t. 28, 29. 



