CHAP. cm. .VALiCA ce.t;. 5a i.ix. 1555 



mostly obovate, toothed, grey or hoary, more or less wrinkled ; very veiny 

 beneath ; stipuled branches downy. Plants trees or shrubs. The group 

 includes the kinds of willow that are usually called the sallows. {Hook. 

 Br. FL, ed. 2., adapted.) The sallows are known by their obovate, or 

 rounded, downy leaves, and thick, early, silken catkins, with prominent, 

 yellow, distinct stamens, 2 to a flower. (Smith Eng. FL, iv. p. 216.) Not 

 a few of the group Nigricantes Borrer also have been regarded as sallows, 

 Mr. Borrer, however, states that he is unacquainted with many of the 

 species, or supposed species, of this group, and of the group Nigricantes ; 

 and it is highly probable that many of them are placed wrongly. (Borrer in 

 a letter.) 



£ 83. S. pa'llida Forbes. The pale Willow. 



Identification. Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 96. 



The Sexes. The female is described and figured in Sal. Wob. 



Engravings. Sal. Wob., No. 96. ; and fig. 96. in p. 1620. 



Spec. Char., ^-c. Leaves lanceolate, obovate, acute, serrated; villous and 

 veiny above ; beneath reticulated, glaucous, and cottony. Branches slender, 

 pale, villous. Stigmas ovate, deeply toothed or cloven at the base. 

 Ovary nearly sessile, ovate, lanceolate, silky. Style scarcely so long as the 

 ovate undivided stigmas. (Sal. Wob.,p. 191.) A native of Switzerland. 

 Introduced in 1823, and flowering in April and May. Stem erect. A slender- 

 growing shrub, with short, palish green, round, villous branches; those of 

 the preceding year brownish green, glabrous, and delicately warty. The 

 leaves about 2 in. long, obovate-lanceolate, or often somewhat spathulate ; 

 dull green, veiny, and villous on their upper surface ; glaucous, downy, or 

 rather covered with a whitish cottony substance, beneath, and reticulated ; 

 the midrib and arched veins prominent. Footstalks shortish. Ovary almost 

 sessile. There are plants at Woburn, and in the Goldworth and Hackney 

 arboretums. 



* 84. S. Wihi.BESOYiA'NA Forbes. Willdenow's Willow. 



Identification. Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 41. 



T/ie Sexes. The female is described and figured in Sal. Wob. 



Engravings. Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 41. ; and fig. 41. in p. 1613. 



Spec. Char., cfc. Leaves elliptic lanceolate, toothed, or bluntly serrated at the 

 base and tip ; the old leaves glabrous and glaucous beneath ; young ones densely 

 downy. Stipules large, half-heart-shaped, toothed, glabrous. Branches gla- 

 brous, villous when young. Ovary stalked, very silky, ovate. Style glabrous. 

 Stigmas notched. (Sal. Wob., p. 81.) Native country uncertain. Alow- 

 growing shrub, with brownish branches, which are green and villous when 

 young. The catkins appear in April, and again in August. " A very dis- 

 tinct and handsome species. The leaves bear a similarity to those of the 

 ilfyrica caroliniana, but are much larger on the young shoots. The S. 

 wzyricoides Muhlenberg (Smith in Rees's Cyclo.) is a very different plant." 

 (Forbes.) 



* 85. S. Pontedera\y^ Willd. Pontedera's Willow. 



Identification. Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p.661. ; Smith in Rees's Cyclo., No. 18. ; Koch Comra.,p. 24. ; 



Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 43. . „ . , ^ i,o -.^r, on 



Synonymes S. pumila alpina nigricans, folio oleagino serrato, Ponted. Comp., 148, 149. ; S. Pen. 

 'teder.^ Bellardi App. ad Fl. Ped., 45. ; ViU. Delf., 3. p. 766. ,, .j .^ c 



The Sexes. The male is noticed in Koch's specific character ; the female is described and figured in 



Engraving's. Sal. Wob.. No. 43. ; ont fig. 1331. ; and^. 43. in p. 1613. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves elliptical, serrated, acute, glabrous ; glaucous beneath, 

 and obtuse at their base; the midrib, footstalks, and young leaves hairy. 

 Ovary oblong and downy. (Sal. Wob.,\).%b.) A native of Switzerland. 

 Introduced in 1821, and 'flowering before the expansion of the leaves, 

 in April. It is described by Willdenow as a shrub, 2 ft. or 3ft. high ; but, 

 in the Woburn salictum, Mr. Forbes has found it attain the height of 12 ft. 

 or 13 ft. in four years. In the Horticultural Society's Garden, crowded 



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