1552 AHBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART III. 



some kinds of wickerwork. There are plants at Henfield, and at Messrs. 

 Loddiges's. 



a» ? ¥ 80. S. MicHEhiA^SA Forbes, Michel's Willow. 



Identification. Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 1^5. 



Si/nvnymes. f S. holoscricea H'illd., 4. p. 708. (Forbes''-, ? S. holosericea var. [Borrer in a letter.) 



The Sexes. The male plant is figured and described in Sal. IVob. Mr. Forbeii had not seen the 



flowers of the female. 

 Engravings. Sal. Wob., t. 135. ; and Jig. 135. in p. 1029. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Stem erect. Leaves lanceolate, pointed ; flat and villous 

 above ; greyish, downy, and reticulated beneath. Stipules ovate, acute, 

 serrated. Filaments long, yellowish. Anthers yellow. Bractea elliptical, 

 hairy. {Sal. Wob., p. -iCO.) Flowering in April. This plant grows to the 

 height of 12 ft. or l.j ft., although it has not been cultivated above four 

 years. The branches of the preceding year are of a dark brownish green 

 colour, and somewhat villous ; those of the present year's growth more of 

 a yellowish brown, and densely covered with a fine pubescence. Leaves 

 from 3 in. to 4- in. long, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate when fully grown ; 

 flat, villous, and ultimately shining above; reticulated, greyish, soft and 

 downy beneath ; upper leaves denticulated with small glandular teeth, 

 entire towards the base; lower leaves quite entire, gradually smaller. Foot- 

 stalks about h in. long, downy, pale yellow. Catkins of the male copious, 

 nearly sessile, appearing before the expansion of the leaves. Mr. Forbes 

 doubts whether this may not be the S. holoscricea of Willdenow ; but he 

 retains the name of S. IMichchV/«r/, which he received with the plant from 

 the Horticultural Society's (iarden, till he has an opportunity of seeing the 

 catkins of the female, so as to aid him in coming to a decision. There are 

 plants at Woburn. 



5 B\. S. ferrugi'nea Anderson. The ievrngmous-Icaved Sallow, or 

 Willow. 



Identification. Anderson MS. ; Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. lUS. ; Borrer in Fng. Bot. Suppl., 1,2665, ; 



Hook Br. Fl., ed. ,;., p. 427. 

 TIte Sexes. Both sexes are described and figured in Eyig. Hot. Suppl. : the female is described and 



figured in Sal. Wob. 

 Engravings. Sal. Wob., No. 128. ; Eng. Bot. Suppl., t. 2665. ; and OMX Jig. 128. in p. 1627. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves lanceolate, having at the edge wavy crenatures and 

 small teeth ; hairy with minute hairs on both surfaces, paler on the under 

 one; thin in substance. Stipules small, half-ovate. Bracteas oblong-lanceo- 

 late. Ovary silky, stalked. Style about as long as the oblong stigmas. 

 (Boner in Eng. Bot. Suppl.) The late Mr. G. Anderson, who distinguished 

 and named the species, discovered it near Carlisle, in 1809; and found it 

 afterwards in Fifeshire and other counties of Scotland; and by the Thames, 

 near Windsor, Reading, Sec. The female has been obscrveil, also, near 

 Nuthurst, Sussex. {Id.) The following description is taken from that 

 giv(;n by Mr. Forbes in Sal. Wob. : — ' A bushy shrub or low tree ; flowering 

 in April, anil growing, in the w illow garden at Woburn Abbey, to the height 

 of \'2 ft. or li ft., with shortish, green, fuscous branches, round, downy, and 

 somewhat of a rusty hue when young, especially towards autumn ; but of a 

 more pale yellow in an earlier state. Leaves from 2i in. to 3 in. long ; 

 obovate-lanceolate, tapering towards the base, with rather long oblique 

 points ; flat, villous, and dark green above ; densely silky, reticulated, and 

 greyish beneath ; lower leaves entire, scarcely 1 in. long; upper ones finely 

 serrated towards the a[)ex, or rather furnishcil with distant, minute, glan- 

 dular teeth, entire towards the ba.se; the rusty hue also visible in the 

 older leaves. Catkins of the female from I in. to l.^in. long, appearing 

 before the leaves." Mr. Forbes deems this a kind of sallow ; and its 

 rounded tumid buds show an affinity to the sallows. Mr. Borrer has placed 

 it in the group Viminales, and is of opinion that it comes nearest to S. 

 Smhhiuna : he adds, of the young leaves, that " tiic newly expanded leaves 

 of the male are beautifully tinged with brownish purple, which is nearly, 



