1504 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART III. 



Wahlenb. Flora Ups., according to Koch Comm., p. 14., Smith in 

 Bees' s Cyclo., No. 1. The catkins bearing rarely male flowers and 

 female ones, and some of the stamens being changed into monstrous 

 pistils. 



$ 17. S. MEVERIA^NA Willd. Meyer's Willow. 



Identification. Willd. Berl. Baumz., p. 427. ; Hayne Abbild., p. 222. ; Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 33. ; 

 Hook. Br. Fl., ed. 3., p. 421. 



Synoni/mes. Koch, in his Comm., p. 14., has presented the following: "S. cuspidata Schultz Fl. 

 Starg. Suppl., p. 47. ; S. tinctbria Smith in Rees's Cyclo., No. 13. ; S. pentandra j3 Linn. Fl. Suec., 

 according to Smith ; S. hexandra Efirfi. Arb., 140. ; S. EhrhartzVJwa Smith in Rees's Cyclopedia." 

 Koch has adopted the name S. cuspidata Schultz. S. tetr&ndra Willd. is quoted as synonymous 

 in Hook. Br. Fl., ed. 3. 



The Sexes. The male is figured in Hayne's Abbild., and described and figured in Sal. Wob., unless 

 some mistake as to the kind has occurred : see Borrer, below. The female is mentioned in. Koch's 

 Com., and Hooker's Br. Fl., ed. 3., p. 421. 



Engravings. Hayne Abbild., t. 162. ; Sal. Wob., No. 33., with a doubt, at least, as to the flower- 

 bearing specimen j our Jig. 1300.; and fig. 33. in p. 1610. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves ovate-elliptic, pointed, glabrous, green, and shining 

 above, rather pale beneath, but not glaucous, serrated ; the serratures of 

 the young leaves glandular. Stipules soon falling off. Stamens 3 4. 

 Bractea obtuse, yellow. (Sal. Wob., p. 65.) Koch has stated the geogra- 

 phic distribution of S. cuspidata Schultz, to which he refers the S. Meyeriawa 

 Willd., to be Pomerania and Sweden, in meadows, and woody and marshy 

 places. Germany is given as the native country of this kind in our Hortus 

 Britannicus, and in Sweet's : and the date of its introduction into Britain is, in 

 the former, 1822 ; in the latter, 1823. Mr. Borrer states that the insertion of 

 this kind in Hook. Br. Fl., ed. 3., as a native of Britain, arose from a mistake 

 of his. (See Borrer in Comp. to Bot. Mag., p. 225.) It forms a handsome- 

 growing tree, with brownish smooth branches, which are slightly warty ; and 

 large, broad, shining leaves, somewhat unequal, and obtuse at the base, often 

 broadest above the middle : of an ovate-elliptic shape, pointed ; green, 

 smooth, and shining above; pale, but not glaucous, beneath; strongly serrated, 

 and the serratures of the younger leaves furnished with glands. Nearly 

 allied to S. lucida, which, however, has smaller leaver, and longer, more 

 slender, catkins. It flowers in April. S. Meyeriawa is a desirable kind 

 of willow for introducing into ornamental plantations of the coarser kind, 

 as it grows quickly, and has large shining leaves, and the catkins of 

 flowers of the male are ornamental. It assimilates to S. pentandra in its 

 flowers, but is obviously distinct from that kind when the two are seen 

 growing near together. It is of freer growth, is more robust, and its leaves 

 are longer, narrower, and more shining. Mr. Borrer has communicated 

 the following remarks relative to the figure of S. Meyendna, given in Sal. 

 Wob., No. 33.: " I never saw the catkins sessile, as represented in Sal. 

 Wob., t. 33., but always on leafy stalks, as in S. lucida, t. 32. Possibly the 

 two figures represent the same species. In American specimens of S. lucida 

 Muhl. and Willd., there is some silkiness on the young leaves. Still they 

 may be of the same species as S. Meyeridna ; and, if so, S. lucida is the 

 older name." There are plants at Woburn Abbey, at Henfield, and at Flit- 

 wick House, the latter of which are 13 ft. high. 



*t 18. S. LU^CIDA Mitiilenb. The shining-leaved Willow. 



Identification. Muhlenb. Nov. Act. Soc. Nat. Scrut. Berol, 4. p. 239. t. 6. f. 7. ; Willd. Sp. PI., 4. 



667. ; Muhlenb. Sims et Kon. Ann. of Bot., 2. 66. t. 5. f. 7. ; Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 2. p. fi!5. ; 



Smith in Rees's Cyclo., No. 32.; Michx. North Amer. Sylva, 3. p. 81. ; ? Forbes in Sal. Wob., 



No. 32., who has quoted Willd. with doubt. 

 Synonymes. S. Forbds Sweet Hort. Brit., ed. 1830 ; where it is stated to be not the S. lucida of 



others, and where the S. lucida of Spreng. Syst., which is the S. lucida Muhlenb., is registered 



besides. 

 The Sexes. The male is described and figured in Sal. Wob., and noticed below, in the specific 



character. 

 Engravings. Nov. Act. Soc. Nat. Scrut. Berol., 4. t. 6. f. 7. ; Sims et Kon. Ann. of Bot, 2. t. 5. f. 7. ; 



Michx. North Amer. Sylva, 3. t. 125. f. 3. ; ? Sal. Wob., 32. ; our fig. 1301. ; and fig. 32. in p. 1610. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves ovate, acuminate, serrated, glabrous ; shining above, pale 

 beneath; the serratures resinous. Footstalks glandular Stipules large, 

 half-heart-shaped, serrated, and furnished with glands. Catkins of the male 



