LXVIII. SALICACE^E: SA LIX. 



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ones partly obovate and recurved. Footstalks some- 

 what glandular. Ovary tapering, stalked, smooth. } 

 Style longer than the cloven stigmas. Branches 

 smooth, highly polished. (Hofm.) " An upright, but 

 not lofty tree, distinguished by the smooth clay- 

 oloured bark of the last year's branches, which shine 

 like porcelain, as if varnished ; the shoots of the 

 present year being stained of a fine red or crimson. 

 Britain. Height 30 ft. to 40ft. Flowers yellow ; May. 



Frequently cultivated for basketwork ; but it well de- 

 serves a place in ornamental plantations, from the re- 

 markable appearance of its bark during winter. 



^ 21. S. MONTANA Forbes, the Mountain Willow (fig. 19. in p. 794.), is do- 

 scribed in our first edition, p. 1515. 



22. S. FRA'GILIS L. The brittle- twigged, or Crack, Willow. 



Identification. Lin. Sp. PL, 1443. ; Eng. Fl., 4. p. 1804. ; Hook. Br. Fl., ed. 3., p.421 

 Synonyme. S. fr&gilis, in part, Koch Comm. p. 15. 

 The Sexes. Both sexes are figured in Eng. Bot. and Sal. Wob. 



Engravings. Lin. Fl. Lapp., No. 349. t. 8. f. b. ; Eng. Bot., t. 1807. ; the plate of this tree in Arb. 

 Brit., 1st edit ; and our fig. 1444. 



1443. S. deepens. 



1444. S.fHgilis. 



Spec. Char., fyc., Leaves ovate-lanceolate, pointed, serrated throughout, very 

 glabrous. Footstalks glandular. Ovary ovate, abrupt, nearly sessile, gla- 

 brous. Bracteas oblong, about equal to the stamens and pistils. Stigmas 

 cloven, longer than the style. (Smith.) A tall bushy-headed tree, with the 

 branches set on obliquely, somewhat crossing each other, not continued in a 

 straight line outwards from the trunk ; by which character, Sir J. E. Smith 

 observes, it may readil) be distinguished even in winter. Britain ; common 

 in hedges. Height 80 ft. to 90 ft. Flowers yellow ; April and May. 



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