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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



men 1. Ovary ovate, very pubescent, sessile, downy. Stigmas nearly 

 sessile, ovate, scarcely emarginate. (Hook.) An erect bush. Height 6 ft. 

 to 8 ft. England, about Lewes, Sussex, in hosier holts, but scarcely wild; 

 at Kingston upon Thames, apparently wild. Flowers yellow ; May. 



A very beautiful species. 



Sit 5. S. FoRBV^\v^ Smith. Forby's Willow, or the fine Basket Osier. 



Identification. Smith Eng. Fl., 4. p. 191. j Hook. Br. Fl., ed. 3., p. 418. 



Synonymes. S. fissa J.in. Soc. Trims., not of HofF. (Smith) ; S. riibra /3 Koch Comm. p. 27. 



The Sexes. The female is described in Enn. Fl., and figured in Eng. Bat. The male is not known. 



Engravings. Eng. Bot., t. 1344. ; Sal. Wob., No. .5. ; N. Abbild., t. 172. ; andfg. 5. In p. 791. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Branches erect. Leaves alternate, witli small stipules, lanceo- 

 late-oblong, with shallow serratures, smooth, rounded at the base, glaucous 

 beneath. Stamen 1. Style nearly as long as the linear divided stigmas. 

 (Smith.) An erect deciduous shrub. England. Height 3 ft. to 8 ft. Flowers 

 yellow; April. 



The shoots are slender, smooth, very flexible, and tough ; of a greyish yellow, 

 not purple, hue ; and very valuable for the finer sorts of wickerwork, for 

 basket-making, and for bands foi" tying faggots and packets. 



36 i 6. S. RU^BRA Huds. The red, or green-leaved. Willow, or Osier, 



Identification. Huds. Fl. Angl., p. 428. ; Smith's Eng. Fl., 4. p. 191. ; Hook. Br. Fl., ed. 3., p. 418. 

 Synonymes. The name rubra seems to be originally given to S- vitellina, a reddish [? twigged] 



variety of which was confounded with S. rijbra Huds. , S. linearis Walker's Essays'p. i67., on 



the authority of Borrer. 

 The Sexes. Both are described in Eng. Fl. ; and the female is figured in Eng. Bot. and Sal. JVob. 

 Engravings. Eng. Bot., 1. 1145. ; Sal. Wob., No. 6. , and our Jig. 6. in p. 792. 



Spec. Char., ^c. Stamens combined below in a manner which affords a cha- 

 racter in which it differs from all other British kinds of willow, except 5. 

 Cvov/edna, and from nearly all the foreign kinds. Mr. Borrer, however, has 

 observed the same thing occasionally in S. fusca, and in several of the Ci- 

 nerese. " Leaves linear-lanceolate, elongate, acute, smooth, with shallow 

 serratures ; green on both sides. Stigmas ovate, undivided." (Smith.) A 

 large shrub or low tree. England, in low meadows and osier holts, as at 

 Maidenhead, &c., but rare ; in Scotland, frequent in hedges and osier 

 grounds. Height J ft. to 20 ft. Flowers yellow ; May and April. 



One of the most valuable osiers in cultivation, for bands, crates, basketvrork 

 or wickerwork, and even small hoops. 



Group ii. Acutifolice Borrer. {Syn. Pruinosne Koch.) 

 Willows tvith dark Bark, covered tvith a fine Bloom. Principal species, 7, 8. 



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Stamens 2, distinct. Tall shrubs, or becoming trees. Bark of the branches 

 and shoots of a dark colour ; that of the branches suffused with a whitish 

 matter, which is the cliaracter imjjlied by Koch's term Pruin6s;e. This 

 matter is easily rubbed off. Tiie bark is internally yellow, as in Group i. 

 Foliage of a lively green. Leaves lanceolate, acuminately pointed, serrate, 

 glossy ; in many instances, downy when young, subsequently glabrous. 

 Ovary and capsule sessile, or nearly so. 



stt ' 1, S. ACUTiFO^LiA Willd. The pointed-leaved Willow. 



Identification. Willd. Sp. PI,, 4. p. G6S. ; Koch Comm., p. 22. 



Si/noni/me. S. tiiolacea Andr. Bot. Rep. t. .581. ; but not S. jJiolacea Willd., nor the S. c6spica Horl. 

 ' (n'illd.) 

 The Seres. The male is figured in Sal. Wob., and is, perhaps, the only one cultivated in British 



collections. Koch has implied that the female was unknown to him in any state. 

 Engravings. Andr. Bot. Rep., 581. ; Sat. Wob., No. 25. ; and our^^. 25. in p. 794. 



Spec. Char., Sj-c. Leaves linear-lanceolate, acuminated, smooth, with blunt 

 unequal serratures, glaucous beneath. Catkins of the male about 1 in. 

 long. (Willd.) A small tree. Podolia. Height 10ft. to 15 ft. I^itroduced 



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