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ARBOKETUM AND FRU'l'ICFTUM. 



PART III. 



native of Lapland; flowering there in July, and, in the kx^ 

 willow (Tarden at Woburn Abl)ey, in April, and again in ■ \w^'}^ 

 July. Introduced in 1820. The branches and leaves of .^'ji /X^ 

 this species are more tender during the spring than those of iD(ML^ 

 iS. herbacea; the stem is almost filiform. Leaves broadly 

 l.ioO Qyjjte, or somewhat roundish, ovate, or obovate; hardly '^'^ 

 ever so narrow as to be called oblong; and shining on both sides. Mr. 

 Forbes says this plant bears a strong affinity to S. herbacea ; but that the 

 silky germens and glaucous leaves clearly show it to be distinct. There 

 are plants at Ilenfield. 



Group xxiii. Hastdtce Borrer, 



Ijow Shrubs, with very broad Leaves, and exrrrditigly shaggy and silky Catkins. 



(Hook Br. Fl.) 



s 163. 5. hastaVa L. The halberd-Zcarerf Willow. 



Identification. Lin. Sp. PI., 144.3. ; Fl. Lapp., ed. 2., 293.; Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 664. ; Smith in Rees's 



Cyclo., No. 22. ; Forbes in Sa). Wob., No. 35. 

 Synonyme. S. hastata Koch, iiart of, and, if the kinds indicated below as varieties be admitted a.* 



.sii(;h, all of Koch's ,S'. hastata, except ,S'. Wulfen/«nn Willd, Koch ("onim., p. 42. 

 T/ir Sexes. The female is described and tigured in Sal. IVob. Smith has noted in Rccs's Cyclo that 



he had not seen male flowers. 

 Engravings. Lin. Fl. Lapp., ed. 2. t. 8. f. 9. ; Sal. Wob., No. S.'J. ; our fig. 1352. ; and fig. 35. in p. 161 1 . 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves ovate, acute, serrated, undulated, crackling, glabrous ; 

 heart-shaped at the base, glaucous beneath. Stipules unequally heart- 

 shaped, longer than the broad footstalks. Catkins very woolly. Ovary 

 lanceolate, glabrous, on a short stalk. (Smith in 

 Rees's Cyclo.^ A native of the mountains of Lap- 

 land. It is said that Messrs. Lee and Kenned)' 

 first brought it into this country, in about 1780, It 

 rises to a small spreading tree, and flowers in April 

 or May. Branches blackish, hairy when very young w^ 

 only. Leaves 3 in. long, and about half as wide. {C 

 (/f/.) It generally attains the height of 4ft. to 3 ft. | 

 ( Forbes.) Koch, viewing the species as comprising \ 

 the varieties indicated below and S. Wnlfenwwa 

 Willd., has given the geographical distribution of 

 it as follows : — Moist places, and by rivers in the 

 alpine and subalpinc regions of Savoy, Switzerland, 

 Germany, and Carpathia, Sweden, and Britain. Its 

 most certain British station seems that discovered 

 by Mr. F. Drumniond, "by a small stream that passes through the sands 

 of Barrie, near Dundee." (^Bor.) In the north of Sweden, it inhabits 

 the bogs of the lower regions and plains. S. ?«alifolia Smith, indicated 

 below as a variety of S. hastata, is the kind of the latter that is iniligenous 

 to Britain. Koch, according to his view of the contents of .S*. hastata 

 as a species, has ascribed to it a variousness in the form of the leaf of from 

 lanceolate to ovate, with a heart-shaped base. 

 Varieties. 



* S. //. 2 serridata. — Leaves broadly ovate, heart-shaped at the base ; 

 synon. S. hastata Willd. Sp. PL, iv. p. 664. But Wahlenberg has 

 accurately remarked that the description relates to a shoot devoid 

 of flowers : the s.ame kind, in a flower-bearing state, is the S. serru- 

 lata Jf Hid. Sp. PL, iv. p. GG4. (Koch Comm., p. 1-3.) This variety of 

 Koch's we consider as blended in our first, or typical, kind. Willde- 

 now has given Laplaml as the native country of both his S. hastata 



