358 DIOECIA — DI.VNDIUA. ISalix. 



Forbes states that species to have been confounded in gardens with the 

 following. 



***# Fragiles. Boi-r. Stamens 2, (^asin the following groups). 

 Trees of considerable size, ivith lanceolate, glabrous, serrated, 

 stipulated leaves, and very lax catkins tvith elongated more or 

 less stalked glabrous germens. 



12. S. decipiens, Hoffin. (^wkite Welsh or varnished Willow) ; 

 leaves lanceolate pointed serrated very glabrous, floral ones 

 partly obovate and recurved, footstalks somewhat glandular, 

 germens tapering stalked glabrous, style longer than the cloven 

 stigmas, branches smooth highly polished. Sm. E.Bot. t. 1937. 

 Salict. Wob. p.bl.t. 29. 



Low meadows, moist hedges and osier-grounds, in several parts of 

 England. CoUinton woods, Edinb. Fl. May. Tj . — Of this I am only 

 acquainted with the sterile plant ; nor has Sir J. E. Smith, nor Mr 

 Forbes, figured any other. It is described as a lofty tree ; when treated 

 as an Osier, producing, for a few years, good rods for basket-work, but 

 gradually becoming shorter, and not worth cultivating. Many botanists, 

 it is stated in E. Ft., have confounded this with S.fragilis, to which it 

 is referred in Fl. Brit. Mr Borrer observes that it is the S. amerina 

 of Walker. 



13. S. frdgilis, L. (crack Willow) ; leaves ovato-lanceolate 

 acute serrated glabrous, germens shortly pedicellate oblongo- 

 ovate glabrous, style short, stigmas bifid, scales pubescent and 

 much ciliated. E. Bot. t. 1807. Salict. Wob. p. 53, t. '27 . (not 

 of Woodville 9 and other medical writers ?) 



Banks of rivers and marshy ground, frequent. FL Apr. May. Tj . — • 

 " A tall bushy-headed tree, whose branches are set on obliquely, some- 

 what crossing each other, not continued in a straight line, b}' which it 

 may readily be distinguished in winter." Sm. These branches are fra- 

 gile, especially in spring, and hence the wood is of little or no value. 

 Whatever good qualities have been attributed to the present species. 

 Sir J. E. Smith observes, belong to the following, which has often been 

 mistaken for it. 



14. S. RusselUdna, Sm. (Bedford Willoio); leaves lanceolate 

 tapering at each extremity strongly serrated glabrous very pale 

 beneath, germens stalked lanceolate acuminate glabrous, style 

 as long as the bifid stigmas, scales narrow-lanceolate slightly 

 ciliated or pubescent. E. Bot. t. 1808. Salict. Wob. p. 55, t. 28. 

 and froittispiece, (the tree). — >S'. fragilis, Woodville ? and other 

 medical writers. 



Marshy woods, osier grounds and in many places. Fl. Apr. May. 

 Tj . — This extremely valuable tree was first brought into notice by His 

 Grace the late Duke of Bedford, and thence most appropriately honoured 

 by bearing his name. Of the size to which it reaches, some interesting 

 details are given in the present Duke of Bedford's Introduction to the 

 Salictum Woburnense. It was one of this species, the favourite tree 

 of Dr Johnson at Litchfield, which was very recently destroyed by a 

 hurricane, after it had attained a height of 60 feet, and a girth of 13 feet. 

 Another tree at Gordon Castle, Scotland, at the age of 61, was 57 feet 



