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iii the willow garden at Woburn Abbey, in April and May. This species 

 grows to the height of 5 ft. or 6 ft. ; quite erect, with dark green, rounded, 

 pubescent branches ; the old ones shining and glabrous after the first year. 

 Leaves from 2 in. to nearly 3 in. or 3^ in. long, and from 1 in. to IT> in. broad ; 

 densely silky on both sides, elliptic-la'nceolate, with acute oblique points; the 

 lower rather obtuse ; margins entire ; whitish and glaucous beneath ; closely 

 covered with long, compressed, silky hairs. Midrib prominent, yellow. 

 Footstalks yellow, pubescent, very stout, and much dilated at the base. 

 Catkins 1 in. or more in length, appearing before the expansion of the 

 leaves. They remain on the plant during the greater part of the summer ; 

 by which peculiarity this very distinct species is readily known from every 

 other. The female plant is figured and described in the OwbfefN Woburnemi: 



-* 63. S. LAPPO V NUM L. The Laplanders' Willow. 



Iticntification. Lin. Sp. PL, 1447. ; FL Lapp., 366. t. 8. f. /, ed. 2., ;3<;0. t. 8. f. / ; Willd. Sp. PL, 4. 



p. 689. ; Smith in Rees's Cyclo., No. 89., but the syn. S. sericea Pillars, there applied to S. Lappd- 



num, Koch has applied to S. glaiica ; Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 73. 

 Si/nuiii/iHf. .S'. arenaria Fl. Dan., t. 197. (Smith.). 



the Sews. The female is described in Willd. Su. PI., and described and figured in Sal. Wob. 

 Engravings. Lin. Fl. Lapp., t. 8. f. /, ed. 2., t. 8. f. t ; SaL Wob., No. 73. ; our fig. 1325. ; and fig. 73. 



in p. 1617. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves lanceolate, very entire, bluntish ; hoary above, woolly 

 beneath. Seed-vessels woolly and oblong. (Forbes S. W.) A native of 

 Lapland ; flowering there in May and June, and, in the Woburn collection, 

 in April. Introduced in 1812. * " This appears to be a very 

 distinct species from glauca, elaeagnifolia, arenaria, lanata, and 

 StaartMMM. It grows with me to about 1 ft. high, with short, 

 pale, decumbent branches ; sometimes the young twigs are 

 tinged, with red. Leaves from 1 in. to 1^ in. long, often un- 

 equal at the base, densely downy on both "surfaces, and white 

 beneath. Catkins from 1 in. to 1^ in. long." (Forbes.) Smith 

 has incidentally noted in Eng. Fl., iv. p. 202., the following 

 characters of S. Lapponum L.: " Leaves 2 in. to 2j in. long, 

 greyish, all over very silky, both sides alike at every period of their growth, 

 and never cottony. Catkins large, with large floral leaves, like the proper 

 leaves. Bracteas oblong, hairy. Ovary and capsule sessile, peculiarly 

 woolly." It grows wild in the alps of Lapland, everywhere. (Willd.') 



tt 64. S. OBTUSIFO N LIA Willd. The blunt-leaved Willow. 



Identification. Willd. Sp. PL, 4. p. 705. ; Smith in Rees's Cyclo., No. 131. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, wedge-shaped at the base, finely villous on both surfaces, 

 glaucous on the under one ; the upper leaves acute and entire ; the lower bluntish and distantly 

 toothed. Frequent in the woods and on the mountains of Lapland. (Lin. and Smith.] A slender 

 shrub, not unfrequently arborescent. Young branches clothed with long silky down. Leaves 

 rather more than 2 in. long, and f in. wide. It is remarkable that, contrary to the nature of most 

 willows, the lower blunter leaves of each branch are furnished with minute distant teeth ; while 

 the upper and pointed ones are quite entire. Except in the teeth of the leaves, it comes nearer 

 to S. Lappbnum than any other. (Smith.} Introduced in 1818. 



* 65. S. AREXA V RIA L. The sand Willow. 



Identification. Lin. Sp. PL, 1447. ; Lin. Fl. Lapp., ed. 2., 298. t. 8. f. o, q ; Willd. Sp. PL, 4. p. 689., 



exclusively of the synonymes ; Hayne Abbild., p. 236. ; Fl. Dan., t. 197., and Hall., No. 1642.; 



Smith in Rees's Cycio., No. 90. ; Smith Eng. Bot., t. 1809;, Eng. FL, 4. 204. ; Forbes in SaL Wob., 



No. 70. ; Hook. Br. FL, ed. 3., p. 426. 



Sftnrmi/ic. .V. limbsa Wahlenb. Fl. Lapp., 2(15., Koch Comm., p. 54. 

 The Sexet. Doth are described in Eng. Flora, and both are figured in Sal. Wob. : the male is 



figured in Eng. Bot. 

 Engravings. Lin. Fl. Lapp., ed. 2., t. 8. f. o, q ; Omel. Sib., 1. t. ;5fi. f. 1. ; Wahlenb. FL Lapp., 



t. 16. f. 4. ; Hayne Abbild., t. 179. ; Eng. Bot., 1. 1809. ; Sal. Wob., No, 70. ; and fig. 70. in p. 1617. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves nearly entire, ovate, acute ; reticulated and some- 

 what downy above ; veiny and densely woolly beneath. Style as long as the 

 sessile woolly ovary. Stigmas linear, deeply divided, the length of the 

 style. (Smith E. F.) A native of the Highland mountains, especially 

 those of Breadalbane and Clova ; flowering there in June, but, in the willow 

 garden at Woburn Abbey, in May. A larger and stouter shrub than S.glauca, 

 of which it was supposed by the original finder to be the female plant ; but 



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