1494- ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART III. 



S. carnidlica, mas et fern., Host Sal., 1. p. 13. t. 44, 45., Fl. Aust, 2. p. 641. Abundant in Car- 

 niola, where it is used by the inhabitants, for many purposes; such as hedges for small gardens, 

 meadows, and stony fields. It is also planted on the banks of streams, for fixing by its roots their 

 sandy or gravelly banks. Tha shoots of the year are very long, unbranched, and tough : when 

 peeled, they are yellow, and are much used in basket-making. At the time of flowering, many of the 

 ovaries become wounded by insects, and afterwards much enlarged. 



S. mirdbilis, mas, Host Sal., 1. p. 13. t. 46., Fl. Aust, 2. p. 641. Of the catkins upon a plant, 

 some consist of male flowers only, some of female flowers only, and many of male flowers inter- 

 mixed with female ones. In some catkins, male flowers occupy the lowest part of the catkin, 

 and female flowers the remaining part ; and catkins are found which hare the flowers in the 

 lower and upper part male, and in the intermediate part female. Each flower includes two 

 distinct stamens, or two connate in the lower part, or connate to near the tip, or often a single 

 stamen. It is not rare to find filaments devoid of anthers. These anomalies in the flowers of this 

 species are probably alluded to in the epithet mirabilis. 



Group ii. Acutifblia Borrer. (Syn. Pruinosae Koch.) 



Willows with dark Bark, covered with a fine Bloom. 



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 character implied by Koch's term Pruinosae. This matter 

 is easily rubbed off. The 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. (Koch, Forbes , and observation.) 



& 7. S. ACUTIFO^LIA Willd. The pointed-leaved Willow. 



Identification, Willd. Sp. PL, 4. p. 668. ; Koch Comm., p. 22. 



Synonyme. S. yiol&cea Andr. Bot. Rep., t. 581., Smith in Rees's Cyclo., No. 33., Forbes in Sal. 

 Wob., No. 25., and of many English collections : but not S. wiolacea Willd.. nor the S. caspica Hort. 

 (Willd.) 



The Sexes. The male is figured in Sal. Wob., and is, perhaps, the 'only one cultivated in British col- 

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



Engravings. Andr. Bot. Rep., 581.; Sal. Wob., No. 25. ; and our Jig. 25. in p. 1607. 



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

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

 (Sal. Wob., p. 49.) It is indigenous to Podolia, according to Besser. (Koch 

 Comm.) It was introduced into Britain previously to 1810, as Mr. Borrer 

 saw it growing in St. Andrew's Square, Edinburgh, in that year. In England, 

 it flowers in March or April, before the expansion of the leaves. It is a 

 small tree, with dark violet- coloured branches, slender, upright, and co- 

 vered all over with a whitish powder, like the bloom of a plum. Only 

 the male plant is in the Woburn salictum. This is a very beautiful species, 

 well deserving of culture in an ornamental point of view ; and Mr. Forbes 

 thinks its twigs would be useful for wickerwork. The catkins of the male 

 are ornamental, but, so far as we have seen, are not numerously produced. 

 The leaves are rather elegant. Its shoots and roots have the inner part of 

 the bark, or covering, of a yellow colour, and very bitter flavour; and, 

 hence, this kind may be eligible for planting upon banks in which rats 

 burrow. In the Horticultural Society's Garden, in 1835, there was a plant 

 of this species 15ft. high. There are plants in the Hackney and Gold- 

 worth arboretums ; and at Woburn Abbey, Flitwick House, and Henfield. 



8. S. DAPHNoVoEs Villars. The Daphne-like Willow. 



Identification. VilL Dauph., 3. p. 765., t 50. f. 7., " t. 5. f. 2." as quoted by Host ; Koch Comm., 



p. 23. 

 Synonymes. S. prae'cox Hoppe in Sturm D. JF7.,1. 25., Willd. Sp. PL, 4. p. 670., exclusively of the 



syn. of Host,' Smith in Rees's Cyclo., No. 40., Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 26. ; 'S. bigemmis Hoffm. 



Germ., 2. p. 260., Sal.,' t. 32. ; S. cinerea Host Sal. Auslr., 1. p. 8. t. 26, 27. Mr. Borrer^in a letter, 



has remarked that Smith has erroneously cited, in his Flora Brit., S. daphnoldes Villars as a 



synonyrne of S. cinSrea Smith ; and that this has led Koch to cite S. cindrea Smith as a synonyme 



of S. rfaphnoldes Villars. 

 The Sexes. Both sexes are figured in Sal. Wob., and both are described and figured in Host 



Sal. Auslr. 

 Engravings. VilL Dauph., 3. t. 50. f. 7. ?or 3. t. 5. f. 2.; Hoff'm. Sal., t. J2. ; Sal. Wob., No. 26. ; 



Host Sal. Aust.i L t. 26, 27. ; our Jig. 1295. ; and Jig. 26. in p. 1608. 



