CHAP. cm. ^ALlCA'CEiE. 5A^L1X. 1569 



Style cloven, longer than the cloven stigmas. (Smith Eng. Fl.) A"native of 

 Scotland, on the Breadalbane Mountains ; and England, on the banks of the 

 Tyne below Newcastle. Stem bushy ; its branches, which are green the first 

 summer, and afterwards of a sooty brown, are clothed with dense, short, 

 curved down, which finally disappears from the older ones. Leaves of a 

 rich bright green, blackish when dried, from 1 in. to U in. long, broadly 

 elliptical, acute, scarcely pointed, flat, finely crenate, or copiously and bluntly 

 serrated ; paler, but not glaucous, underneath ; more or less downy on both 

 sides, especially the midrib and veins, with minute hairs, their substance 

 thin and pliant ; the very young ones silky. Footstalks downy, and rather 

 short. Catkins of ripe capsules not above 1 in. long. {Ibid.) There are 

 plants at Woburn, Flitwick, Henfield, and Hackney. 

 Varieties. Mr. Forbes states that he has three varieties of S. AndersonJ«?!«, in 

 one of which the catkins are much shorter, and the capsules more loosely 

 set on the rachis, or axis, of the catkin, than in the one figured in the Salic- 

 tum Woburnensc. {Sal. Wob.) 



# 111. 5". DAMASCE^NA Forbes. The D^mson-lcavcd Willow, or Sallow. 

 Identification. Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 157. ; Bor. in Eng. Bot. Suppl., L 2709. ; Hook. Br. Fl., 



ed. 3 

 Synon'ymes. S. daxaa&cemmXa. Anderson MSS. ; 5. phylicifulia Lin., a state of, Lindl. Si/nops. Br. 



The Seies. The female is described in Sal. Wob., and described in Sng. Bot. Suppl. " Mr. Ander- 

 son possessed both sexes, but we have seen the female only." {Borrer.) 

 Engraving. Eng. Bot. Suppl., t. 2709. 



Sjicc. Char., Sfc. Upright. Young shoots densely hairy. Leaves ovate, or 

 rhomboidal, bluntly toothed ; silky when young ; at length nearly glabrous; 

 green on both surfaces. Stipules half-heart-shaped. Catkins, with the 

 flowers in blossom, longer than the floral leaves. Bracteas (scales) obovate. 

 Ovary stalked, glabrous. Style divided, longer than the diverging stigmas. 

 (Borrer in E7ig. Bot. Suppl.) Perhaps too nearly allied to S. Andersoni«H« 

 to be properly regarded as a species. In that, the leaves, especially the 

 lower ones, are more oblong, and their under side is not so absolutely devoid 

 of a glaucous tinge ; the catkins are shorter, and rarely overtop the larger, 

 and generally leat-like, bracteas of the catkin. The flowers, except that they 

 are more loosely set, and their bracteas (scales) more oblong and blacker, 

 are very nearly the same in structure. If the footstalk of the germen is 

 sometimes naked (a state which we have not seen), it is usually hairy. (Ibid.) 

 The late Mr. G. Anderson communicated to Mr. Borrer, in 1813, under the 

 manuscript name of S. c/amascenifolia, the .S". rfamascena Forbes, as a species 

 obtained from the south of Scotland and the borders, that hs had cultivated 

 for five years. The flowers appear with the young leaves, about the middle 

 of April. The plant is a very upright shrub, about 12 ft. high. The follow- 

 ing description is quoted from Mr. Forbes : — " Stem and branches erect, 

 of a dark brown mahogany colour, copiously marked with small yellow 

 spots ; round and brittle, the leaves are from 1 in. to l^in. long, and 

 rather more than ^ in. in breadth, of an elliptic figure, bluntly serrated ; 

 the serratures furnished with glands towards the points of the leaf; deep 

 green and shining above, reticulated and glabrous beneath ; the prominent 

 arched veins only besprinkled with a few long hairs; the young leaves 

 hairy, but ultimately losing their pubescence and their glaucous hue. Foot 

 stalks long, slender, downy on both sides, and brown. The leaves and 

 young twigs of this species very much resemble those of the damson plum 

 and of S. Andersoniflwa. There are plants at Henfield. 



a^ 1 12. S. AysojilA^NA Forbes. Anson's Sallow, or Willow. 



Identification. Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 107. 

 The Sexes. Tlie female is described and figured in Sal. Jf'ob. 

 Engravings. Sal. Wob., No. 107. ; and out fig. 107. in p. 1622. 



Spec. Char., c^-c. Leaves elliptic, acute, bluntly and deeply serrated, glabrous ; 

 bright green and shining above ; beneath, glaucous and besprinkled with 

 minute appressed hairs. Stipules large, rounded, serrated, glabrous. Ovary 



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