1600 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART III. 



Description, $c. A shrub, a native of Switzerland. Introduced in 18-23 The plants at Hackney 

 appear allied to S. caprea. 



m 207. S. PALUDO N SA Lk. The Marsh Willow. 



Identification. Link Enum. ; Sweet Hort Brit., No. 73. ; Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. 



Description, $c. From the plants bearing this name in the Hackney arboretum, this kind appears 

 to belong to the same group as S. pallescens. 



* 208. S. PERSIC^EFO V LIA Hort. The Peach-tree-leaved Willow. 



Identification. Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. 



Description, fyc. The plant bearing this name in the Hackney arboretum appears allied to S. 

 rubra. 



J: 209. S. PYRENA V ICA Gouan. The Pyrenean Willow. 



Identification. Gouan Illust., 77., excluding the synonymes ; Willd., No. 86. : Smitli in Rees's 

 Cyclo., No. 107. 



Spec. Char., 8(C. Stems quite prostrate, branched, and smooth. Leaves 1 in. long, and nearly | in. 

 wide ; bright green and shining above ; remarkably woolly about the margin, which gives them a 

 peculiar and characteristic appearance. When young, they are hairy all over. Footstalks broad, 

 channeled, rather short, smooth, yellowish, without stipules. Female catkins 2 in. long, slender, 

 rather lax, on leafy stalks. Scales linear-obovate, long, fringed with COJMOUS long hairs. Germens 

 extending rather beyond the scales, and clothed with similar hairs. Stigmas long and linear. 

 (Smith in Rees's Cyclo.] A native of the Pyrenees. Introduced in 1823, and flowering in May. 



& 210. S. PYRIFO^LIA Schl. The Pear-tree-leaved Willow. 



Identification. Schl. Cat. ; Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. 



Description, fyc. A shrub, a native of Switzerland. Introduced in 1824, and, from the plants at 

 Hackney, apparently belonging to Cinerea?. 



$t 211. S. RECURVA V TA Pursh. The recur ved-catkined Willow. 



Identification. Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 2. p. 609. ; Smith in Rees's Cyclo., No. 99. 



The Sexes. The female is noticed in the Specific Character. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves obovate-lanceolate, acute, glabrous, entire ; glandular at the margin, glau- 

 cous beneath ; the young ones silky. Stipules none. Catkins protruded before the leaves, re- 

 curved. Ovary ovate, somewhat stalked, the length of the hairs of the bracteas. Style very short. 

 Stigmas divided. Wild in shady woods in North America, among the mountains of New Jersey 

 and Pennsylvania ; flowering in April. A low shrub. Branches brown, glabrous. Buds yellow. 

 Bracteas tipped with black. (Pursh and Smith.) Introduced in 1811. According to Pursh (p. 612.), 

 it bears considerable resemblance to S. rosmarinifblia. 



& 212. S. SALVI^FO^LIA Link. The Sage-leaved Willow. 



Identification. Adopted from Link in Willd Sp. PI., 4. p. 688. ; Smith in Rees's Cyclo., No. 87. ; 

 Koch Comm., p. 34. 



Synonymes. S. patula Seringe Sal. Helv., p. 11., Spreng. Syst., Sweet Hort. Brit. ; S. oleifolia Ser. 

 Sal. cxsicc., No. 1. ; S. oleaefblia Vill. Dauph., 3. p.784., according to Willd. Sp. Pi., 4. p. 709. ; 

 S. Fluggeawa Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 709., according to a specimen from Flugge himself in the her- 

 barium of Mertens, Smith in Rees's Cyclo., No. 139. 



The Sexes. The female is described in the Specific Character, and in Willdenow's description of S. 

 F\uggeana. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves oblong lanceolate, acute, tapered to the base, obsoletely denticulated, 

 hoary and tomentose, and wrinkled with veins on the under surface ; lower ones obtuse. Stipules 

 half-heart-shaped, acute. Catkins sessile, arched, attended by some scale-shaped leaves at the 

 base. Capsule ovate-lanceolate, tomentose, stalked ; the stalk as long again as the gland. Style 

 short. Stigmas oblong, nearly entire. (Koch.) Wild in Portugal, the south of France, and Swit- 

 zerland. In Dauphine, VilUrs says that it serves as a stock on which to graft S. vitelllna. Smith 

 mentions that the trunk is about 10ft. or 12 ft. high ; the leaves about If in. or 2 in. long, and some- 

 what revolute ; and the branches dark brown, hairy when young, and very brittle. Smith describes 

 S. salviasfolia and S. Fluggeawrt as distinct species ; but it does not appear that he had seen speci- 

 mens of either. S. Fluggea Willd. is stated in the Hortus Britannicus to be a native of the south 

 of France, and introduced in 1820. 



-* 213. SCHRADER/^A^ Willd. Schrader's Willow. 



Identification. Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 695. ; Smith in Rees's Cyclo., No. 104. ; Koch incidentally in 

 Comm., p. 46. 



Synonymes. S. discolor Schrad. Hort. Gb'tt. MSS., asquoted by Willd. It is noticed by Koch (Comm., 

 p. 46.), as a variety of a kind that is cultivated, in most German gardens, under the erroneous name 

 of S. bicolor Ehrhart. 



Spec. Char.', Sfc. Leaves elliptical, acute ; finely downy on both surfaces, glaucous on the under one ; 

 slightly serrated towards the point. Stipules very small. Catkins protruded rather earlier than 

 the leaves, ovate, hairy. (Smith.) It approaches, in habit and size of leaves, S. Crowe.mrt and S. 

 bicolor ; but the foliage is always more or less clothed on both surfaces with silky hairs ; and the 

 two stamens are distinct. The footstalks are slender, elongated, sometimes having two minute 

 rounded stipules at the base, or, in their stead, a pair of glands. (Id.) Introduced in 1820. 



* 214. S. SEPTENTRIONA^LIS Host. The northern Willow. 



Identification. Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. 



Description, Sfc. From the plants in the Hackney arboretum, this kind appears to belong to the 

 group Cinerese. Mr. Borrer had cuttings of S. nigricans Smith, from Messrs. Loddiges, under the 

 name of S. septentrional is. 



