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leaves, it is dissimilar to .V. viminalis : its buds and leaves seem rather to 

 indicate affinity to kinds of the group Cinerea?. There are plants at Henfield. 



dk 72. S. ca'ndida Ji'i//(l. Tiic whitish Willow. 



Identification. Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p.7f)8. ; Pursh D Amer. .Sent., 2. p. fiOS. ; Smith in Rccs's Cyclo., 



No. 1J8. ; Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. PI. 

 The Ht'xcs. The male is described and figurc<i iu Sal. Wob. 

 JCngravings. Sal. Wob., No. 91. ; our Jig. l.'JL'ti. ; and/i/j. 91. in p. 1619. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves linear-lanceolate, very long, 

 obscurely toothed ; downy above ; beneath densely 

 downy. Stipules lanceolate, nearly the length of the 

 foot.stalks. ( /(7//f/.and For/tcs.) A native of North Ame- 

 rica. Introduced in IHl 1, and flowering, in the willow- 

 ganlen at Woburn Abbey, about tiie end of February 

 or beginning of March. Leaves from .'Jin. to 4 in. 

 long ; linear-lanceolate, narrow towanls their e.\tre- 

 mitie-s, obscurely toothed; margins slightly revolute; 

 downy above, snow-white and cottony beneath ; with 

 a {)roniinent midrib, and obscurely prominent lateral 

 veins, owing to the down. Catkin of the male I in. long, cylindrical. A 

 very handsome species, well deserving a place in shrubberies, both for its 

 ornamental white leaves, and very early flowers. There are plants at 

 Woburn and Henfield. 



Varieties. Mr Forbes mentions two varieties, one of which flowers full three 

 weeks earlier than the other, and has the anthers of a less deep scarlet. 

 (Sal. JVob.) 



* ? 5 73. S. iNC.t^NA Schranck. The hoary-Ztartrf W^illow, P or Osier. 



Identification. Schranck Baier (Bavar.) Fl., 1. p. 230. ; Koch Comin., p. 32. ; Forbes in SaL Wob., 



No. 90. 

 Synonymes. S. ripiria Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 698., Smith in Rces's Cyclo., No. 111., Hayne Ahbild., 



p. 245., ? Host Sal. Austr., 1. p. 17. ; S. Iavandula;f6lia Lapeyr. Abr., p. 601., Scringe Sal. Helv., 



p. 70. ; S. angustifblia Poir. in Du Ham. Arh., ed. 1., 3. t. 29. ; S. rosmarinifblia (ioiian Hart., 501., 



Scliraiick Salisb., No. 38., Scop. Cam., p. 527., Host Syn., 529.: S. viminalis /'///. Dclph., 3. 



p. 78;';. 

 The Seres. Both are figured in Hayne Ahbild. : the male is figured in Sal. Wob., where Mr. Forbes 



has noticed that he had not seen the catkins of the other sex. If the kind of Host Sal. Austr. ii 



identical, both sexes of it are figured in that work. 

 Engravings. Du Ham. Arb., ed. 1., J. t. 29. ; Hayne Ahbild., t. 187. ; Sal. Wob., No. 90. ; ? Host 



Sal. Austr., t. 58, 59. ; our jig-. 1327. ; andjf;j. 9(». in. p. 1619. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves linear-lanceolate, denticulated, hoary on the under 

 surface with hoary tomentum. Catkins arched, slcntler, almost sessile, sub- 

 tended at the base with small leaves Capsule ovate-lanceolate, glabrous, 

 stalked ; the stalk twice the length of the gland. 

 Style elongated. Stigmas bifid. Bracteas subgla- 

 brous, ciliate with short hairs. {Koch Comm.) The 

 following description of the kind is taken from Mr. 

 Forbes in Sal. Wob. : — " Branches villous, dark 

 brown, whitish when young ; long and slender, angu- 

 lated at the top of the young shoots, and distinctly 

 warted; forming a bush 4 ft. or .5 ft. high. Leaves 

 linear, from 3 in. to 4 in. long; minutely serrated, 

 or, rather, furnished with a few glandular teeth to- 

 wards the base ; margin slightly revolute; upper surface green and villous ; 

 beneath, thickly clothed with white cottony down : the young leaves are all 

 revolute and snowy-white. Footstalks bearing at the summit two glands, 

 short and dilated at the base. Catkins appearing before the leaves, barren 

 ones 1 in. long. The leaves of this species, Mr. Forbes observes, bear a 

 strong affinity to those of .S'. vjminalis ; while the catkins, branches, and mode 

 of growth are (juitediflx'rent ; and that it never rises more than .'> ft. or G ft. 

 high." Host has described, in the Snl. Aiis/r., his .S'. riparia as an elegant tree; 

 but he may only mean a plant of tree-like figure, but slender and not of con- 

 siderable height. Koch states that the species is found in a wild state, in 



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