CHAP. CIII. SALICA^CEJE. 6'A^LIX. 14-93 



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

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

 (Smith Eng. Ft.) A native of England, flowering in April. The stem is 

 erect, bushy, with upright, slender, smooth twigs, very flexible and tough, of 

 a greyish yellow, not purple, hue. Fertile catkins extremely like those of 

 V. 7/elix, but the leaves widely different. A valuable species for the finer 

 sorts of wickerwork, and for basket-making, bands tor tying faggots, 

 packets, &c. When cut down, plants make shoots from .5 ft. to 7. ft. long. 

 There are plants at Hackney, Goldworth, Wobiirn, and Flitwick. 



6. RU'BRA Huds. The red, or green-leaved, Willow, or Osier. 



Identification. Huds. Fl. AngL, p. 428.: Smith's Eng. Bot., t. 1145. ; Wllld. Sp. PI., 4. p. 674. ; 



Smith's Eng. Fl., 4. p. 191. ; Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 6. ; Hook. Br. Fl., ed. 3., p. 418. ; Mackay's 



Fl. Hib., pt. 1. p. 244. ; ? Hayne Abbild., p. 230. 

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



variety of which was confounded with S. rubra Huds. (Smith.); S. rfibra, in part, Koch'Comm., 



p. 26. ; S. fissa Hqffm. Sal., 1. p. 61. t. 13, 14. (Smith) ; S. concolor Host Sal. Aust., 1. p. 10. t. 34, 



35., from Host's citation of Ray ; S. virescens nil. Dauph., 3. 785. t 51. 30. (Smith) ; S. linearis 



Walker's Essays, p. 467., on the authority of Borrer. 



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

 Engravings. Eng. Bot., t. 1145.; Sal. Wob., No. 6. ; ? Host Sal. Aust, t. 1. t. 34,35.; Villars 



Dauph., 3. t. 51. f. 30. (Smith.) ; ? Hayne Abbild., 171. ; and our fig. 6. in p. 1604. 



Spec. Char.y $c. Stamens combined below in a manner which affords a cha- 

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

 roweaa, and from nearly all the foreign kinds. Mr. Borrer, however, has 

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

 " Leaves linear-lanceolate, elongate, acute, smooth, with shallow serratures ; 

 green on both sides. Stigmas ovate, undivided." (Smith E. F.) A native of 

 Britain (in England, in low meadows and osier holts, as at Maidenhead, &c., 

 but rare ; in Scotland, frequent in hedges and osier grounds) ; flowering in 

 April and May. In its wild state, it forms a small tree. The branches are 

 long, upright, smooth, greyish or purplish, more frequently tawny, and very 

 tough and pliant. The leaves are very long and narrow, and agree in 

 shape with those of the common osier, S. viminalis; but have not, as that 

 has, dense white pubescence beneath. (Smith.) Koch considers the S. For- 

 bydna of Smith as a variety of S. rubra ; and states that both are common 

 about Erlangen, where there is also another variety, which he regards as a 

 hybrid between S. rubra and S. viminalis. The leaves of this kind, even 

 when adult, have their under surface covered with a dense silky down, like 

 those of S. viminalis ; the young shoots bear stipules the length of the 

 petiole, like those of S. stipularis ; and the catkins resemble those of S. rubra. 

 There are plants of S. rubra at Hackney, Goldworth, Woburn, Henfield, and 

 Flitwick. When the plants of this species are cut down, they send out 

 shoots from 5ft. to 8ft. in length; and it is consequently one of the most 

 valuable osiers in cultivation, for bands, crates, basketwork or wickerwork, 

 and even small hoops. 



Sfatistfcs. In the garden of the Horticultural Society of Lendon, 10 years planted, it is 12 ft. high ; 

 at Shepperton, on the Thames, it is 30 ft. high. 



App. i. PurpurecE of which Plants have been introduced, but not 

 9 described. 



S. clliptica Lodd. Cat, ed. 1836. Leaves resembling S. tfdlix, but narrower. 



App. ii. Purpiireae described by Authors, but not yet introduced, 

 or of doubtful Identity with Species already in the Country. 



S. cdncolpr, mas et fern., Host Sal., 1. p. 10. t. 34,35., Fl. Aust., 2. p. 639.; syn. S. minima 

 fragilis f7)liis longissimis, &c., Rait Syn., 449. In the Eng. Fl., Ray's species is identified with S 

 r libra ; but Host's plant may possibly be something different. 



>. Hllix, mas et fern., Host Sal., 1. p. 10. t. 36, 37., Fl. Aust., 2. p. 639. This species, Host 

 observes, when growing among trees, becomes a tall tree ; but under other circumstances is dwarfer 



S. oppasitifdlia, mas et fern., Host Sal., 1. p. 11. t. 38, 39., Fl. Aust., 2. p. 640. Host has applied 

 to this a syn. of Ray, which identifies it with S. HMix L. 



S. )>un>>irca, mas et fern., Host Sal., 1. p. 12. t. K), 41., Fl. Aust, 2. p. 640. The catkins resemble 

 those of the S. purpuroa of British botanists ; and, hence, the two plants may be identical. 



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