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leaves, it is dissimilar to S. viminalis : its buds and leaves seem rather to 

 indicate affinity to kinds of the group Cinereae. There are plants at Henfield. 



& 72. S. CA'NDIDA Wittd. The whitish Willow. 



Identification. Willd. Sp. PL, 4. p. 708. ; Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 2. p. 608.; Smith in Rees's Cyclo., 



No. l;>8. ; Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 91. 

 The .SV.rr.s-. The male is described and figured in Sal. Wob. 

 Engravings. Sal. Wob., No. 91. ; our fig. 1326. ; andfig. Pi. in p. 1619. 



Spec. Char., Sec. Leaves linear-lanceolate, very long, 

 obscurely toothed ; downy above ; beneath densely 

 downy. Stipules lanceolate, nearly the length of the 

 footstalks. ( Willd. and Forbes.) A native of North Ame- 

 rica. Introduced in 1811, and flowering, in the willow- 

 garden at Woburn Abbey, about the end of February 

 or beginning of March. Leaves from 3 in. to 4 in. 

 long ; linear-lanceolate, narrow towards their extre- 

 mities, obscurely toothed ; margins slightly revolute ; 

 downy above, snow-white and cottony beneath ; with 

 a prominent midrib, and obscurely prominent lateral 

 veins, owing to the down. Catkin of the male 1 in. long, cylindrical. A 

 very handsome species, well deserving a place in shrubberies, both for its 

 ornamental white leaves, and very early flowers. There are plants at 

 Woburn and Henfield. 



Varieties. Mr Forbes mentions two varieties, one of which flowers full three 

 weeks earlier than the other, and has the anthers of a less deep scarlet. 

 (Sal. Wob.} 



a ? 73. S. INCA^NA Schranck. The homy-leaved Willow, ? nr Osier. 



Identification. Schranck Baier (Bavar.) FL, 1. p. 230. ; Koch Comm., p. 32. ; Forbes in Sal. Wob., 



No. 90. 

 Synonymes. S. riparia Willd. Sp. PL, 4. p. 698., Smith in Rees's Cyclo., No. 111., Hayne Abbild., 



p. 245., ? Host Sal. Austr., 1. p. 17. ; S. lavandulaefblia Lapeyr, Abr., p. 601., Seringe Sal. Helv., 



p. 70. ; S. angustifblia Pair, in Du Ham. Arb., ed. 1., 3. t. 29. ; S. rosmarinifblia Gouan Hort., 501., 



Schranck Salisb., No. 38., Scop. Cam., p. 527., Host Syn., 529.; S. viminalis Vitt. Delph., 3. 



p. 785. 

 The Seres. Both are figured in Hayne Abbild. : the male is figured in Sal Wob., where Mr. Forbes 



has noticed that he had not seen the catkins of the other sex. If the kind of Host Sal. Austr. is 



identical, both sexes of it are figured in that work. 

 Engravings. Du Ham. Arb., ed. 1., 3. t. 29. ; Hayne Abbild., t. 187.; Sal. Wob., No. 90. ; ? Host 



Sal. Austr., t. 58,59. ; our./t. 1327. ; and Jig. 90. in. p. 161<>. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves linear-lanceolate, denticulated, hoary on the under 

 surface with hoary tomentum. Catkins arched, slender, almost sessile, sub- 

 tended at the base with small leaves. Capsule ovate-lanceolate, glabrous, 

 stalked; the stalk twice the length of the gland. LS'27 



Style elongated. Stigmas bifid. Bracteas subgla- 

 brous, ciliate with short hairs. (Koch Comm.} The 

 following description ~6f the kind is taken from Mr. 

 Forbes in Sal. Wob. : " Branches villous, dark 

 brown, whitish when young ; long and slender, angu- 

 lated at the top of the young shoots, and distinctly 

 warted; forming a bush 4ft. or 5ft. high. Leaves 

 linear, from 3 in. to 4 in. long; minutely serrated, 

 or, rather, furnished with a few glandular teeth to- 

 wards the base ; margin slightly revolute; upper surface green and villous ; 

 beneath, thickly clothed with white cottony down : the young leaves are all 

 revolute and snowy-white. Footstalks bearing at the summit two glands, 

 short and dilated at the base. Catkins appearing before the leaves, barren 

 ones 1 in. long. The leaves of this species, Mr. Forbes observes, bear a 

 strong affinity to those of S. viminalis ; while the catkins, branches, and mode 

 of growth are quite different ; and that it never rises more than 5 ft. or 6 ft. 

 high." Host has described, in the Sal. Auttr., his S. riparia as an elegant tree ; 

 but he may only mean a plant of tree-like figure, but slender and not of con- 

 siderable height. Koch states that the species is found in a wild state, in 



