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the lower alpine valleys on the Pyrenees, Cevennes, Alps of Dauphiny,^ 

 Switzerland, Tyrol, Austria, Carpiuhia ; whence it follovvs the course of 

 rivers, and inhabits their banks and moist meadows ; but it does not grow 

 in Germany, on the Rhine, beyond the limits of Suabia, nor north of the 

 Danube. It descends from the Carpathian Mountains into Hungary and 

 (Talicia ; but, according to Besser, is not found in Volhynia. Introduced in 

 1821. It flowers, in the willow garden at Wohurn, in April. It is an in- 

 teresting kind for distinctness of "character. Tliere are plants at Woburn, 

 Henfield, and Flitwick ; and also in the Hackney arboretum, under the 

 name of S. trichocarpa. 



S4 7-i. S. linea'ris Forbes. The \inear-lcaved Willow. 



Identification. Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 89. 



Si/>io)ii/me. ? S. inc^iia var. linearis Buner. [Borrer in a letter.) 



the Scj-es. The raali^ is described and figured in Sal. tVob. Mr. Forbes has noted that he had nnt 



seen catkins of the t'eraale. 

 Engravings. Sal. Wob., 89. ; ourj?^. 1328. ; and fig. 89. in p. 1619. 



Spec. Char.y ^'c. Leaves linear, villous ; shining above, cottony beneath ; mar- 

 gins slightly denticulated. Branches brown. Stipules none. Catkins ellip- 

 tical, nearly sessile. Bracteas elliptical, yellow, as are also the anthers. {Sal. 

 Wob., p. 177.) Brought from Switzerland by the Hon. 

 Henry Grey Bennett, in 1820 ; and flowering, in the willow 

 garden at Woburn Abbey, in April. A low bushy shrub, 

 with copious branches, dark brown or purplish in every 

 stage. Leaves from H in. to 2iin. long, truly linear; the 

 margins slightly serrated ; the teeth sometimes furnished 

 with glands; the upper surface green, shining, wrinkled, 

 and besprinkled with fine, minute, adpressed hairs, some- 

 times scarcely visible ; beneath, white and cottony, their 

 margins revolute ; leaves frequently opposite and alternate 

 on the same branch. Buds of a bright crimson colour. 

 Footstalks short, reddish. No vestige of stipules is to 

 be perceived in any state of growth. Catkins appearing before the 

 leaves, 1 in. long, and erect in the male plant. Easily known by the 

 rosemary-like appearance of its leaves. In the figure of the stamens in 

 Sal. Wob. (see ovwfg. 1328.), the stamens are represented as palpably mon- 

 adelphous ; a case of which not any mention is made in the text there. 

 This kind is striking from the narrowness of its leaves. There are plants 

 at Woburn, Henfield, and Flitwick, and in the Goldworth Arboretum. 



* 5f 75. S. viMi.NA^Lis L. The twiggy Willow, or common Osier. 



Itlentificalion. Lin. Sp. PI., 1448. ; Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 70fi. ; Havne Abbild., p. 251. ; Koch Comm., 



p. 29. i Host Sal. Austr., 1. p. 16. ; Smith Eng. Bot., t. 189a ; Eng. Fl., 4. p. 228. ; Forbes in Sal. 



Wob., No. 133. ; Hook. Br. FI., ed.3. ; Mackay Fl. Hibern., pt. 1. p. 249. ; Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 2. 



p. 608. 



Synonyme. S- longif61ia Lam. Fl. Fr., 2. 232. {Koch.) 



The Sexes. Both sexes are figured in Eng. Bot., Sal. Wob., Hayne Abbild., and Host Sal. Austr. 



Both exist in Britain. The male seems less robust and vigorous than the female. 

 Engravings. Eng. Bot., 1. 1898.; Sal. Wob., No. 133. ; Hayne Abbild., t. 194. ; Host Sal. Austr., 



t. 54, 55. ; our fig. 1329. ; and fig. 133. in p. 1629. 

 Spec. Char., Sj-c. Leaves linear, inclining to lanceolate, 

 elongated, taper-pointed, entire, wavy ; snow-white and 

 silky beneath. Branches straight and slender. Ovary 

 sessile. Style as long as the linear undivided stigmas. 

 (Smith E. F.) A native of England, in wet meadows; and 

 flowering in April and May. According to Pursh, it 

 grows in North America, introiluced from Europe, on 

 the banks of rivers, and about plantations. The follow- 

 ing description of its characters is derived chiefly from 

 the Englvih Flora : — Branches straight, erect, wand- 

 like, very long and slender, round, polished ; when young, 

 downy with fine silky hairs. Leaves on short footstalks, 

 almost upright, about a span long, and A in. wide, being nearly linear, acute. 



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