1536 ARBORETUM AND FRUT1CETUM. PART III. 



ovaries. (Hook. Br. Fl., p. 417.) A native of Scotland, 



on the Clova Mountains, and also near Dumfries ; growing 



to the height of 1 ft., and flowering in April. Botanists 



are not agreed as to what is precisely the S. arbuscula L. 



Smith deemed it to be this; but Mr. Forbes (Sal. Wob., 



No. 86., and incidentally under No. 138.) and Mr. Borrer 



(Hook. Br. FL, ed. 2.) have concluded that it is not. Mr. 



Forbes was much inclined to regard it as not specifically 



distinct from S. rosmarinifolia Eng. Fl. and Eng. Sot.; 



and Mr. Borrer, or Sir W. J. Hooker, or both, have regarded 



it as probably the same as the S. angustifolia Wulfen. As to its relation 



to S. rosmarinifolia, Sir W. J. Hooker says, " I agree with Mr. Borrer in 



thinking that they are distinct, though the difference lies almost entirely in 



their ovaries : these are shorter in S. angustifolia, with denser, less glossy, 



and less truly silky hairs, with ovate and quite entire stigmas, and more 



shaggy bracteas. There are plants at Woburn and Flitwick. 



-* 50. S. DECU'MBENS Forbes. The decumbent Willow. 



Identification. Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 88. 



The Sexes. The female is described and figured in Sal Wob. 



Engravings. Sal. Wob., No. 88.; and fig. 88. in p. 1618. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves linear-lanceolate, nearly entire; dull green and silky 

 above, pale and densely silky beneath. Stipules lanceolate. Branches 

 downy. Ovary ovate, silky, nearly sessile. Style elongated. Stigmas 

 divided. (Sal. Wob., p. 175.) A native of ? Switzerland. Introduced in 1823, 

 and flowering in May. A small shrub, with leafy downy branches, extending 

 obliquely from the ground to the height of 1 ft. or 1 ft. 6 in. The leaves are 

 from 1 i in. to 2 in. long, or more ; linear-lanceolate, entire, or nearly so, 

 some of them marked with a few glands about the middle ; dull green and 

 silky above, beneath densely silky ; the young ones have somewhat a silvery 

 appearance underneath. Buds red before expansion. Catkins nearly 1 in. 

 long. A very distinct species, resembling in foliage the male plant of 

 S. 



at 51. S. FUSCA'TA Pursh. The dark-bro\vn-branched Willow. 



Identification. Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 8. p. 612. ; Smith in Rees's Cyclo., No, 110. 



Tin- Suet. The female is noticed in the specific character. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves obovate-lanceolate, acute, somewhat serrated ; glaucous beneath, downy 

 when very young. Stipules minute. Catkins drooping. Bracteas (scales) obtuse, scarcely hairy 

 on the inside. Ovary ovate, silky, somewhat stalked. Wild in North America, in low overflowed 

 grounds on the banks of rivers, from New York to Pennsylvania ; flowering in March or April. 

 Branches of the preceding year covered with a dark brown or black tomentum. (Purxh and Smith.} 

 Introduced in 1811. 



Group xi. Fusca Borrer. 



Mostly procumbent Shrubs. 



Stamens 2 to a flower, as far as to the kinds whose male flowers have been 

 observed. Ovary silky, stalked. Catkins ovate or cylindrical. Leaves 

 between elliptical and lanceolate ; mostly silky beneath ; nearly entire. 

 Plants small shrubs. Stem, in most, procumbent. S. fusca L., Hooker, 

 var. 1., and S. Doniana Smith, have a likeness in aspect to the kinds of the 

 group Purpureae, except S. rubra Huds. (Hook. Br. Fl. y ed. 2., adapted.) 



-* 52. S. FU'SCA L. The brown Willow. 



Identification. Hook. Br. Fl., ed. 2., p. 417. ; ? Hayne Abbild., p. 242. 



Synonymes. S. repcns Hook. Fl. Scot., 1. p. 284. ; ,V. repens Koch, part of, Koch Comm., p. 47. The 



various synonymes to be cited below in application to varieties are, in effect, synonymes of the 



species also. 



The Sexes. The female is figured in Hat/tic Abbild., if the S. fusra of that work is the S. fusca /.. 

 Engraving*. Hayne Abbild., t. 184. ; Sal. Wob. ; and our fig. 8.5. in p. ItilS. 



