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itself at home in the dry soil of town gardens. Mr. Forbes states that when cut 
down this species produces tough flexible rods, fit for basket-work; but in a wild 
state on the banks of Gogar Burn, where its five or six other sorts were periodically 
cut down for basket-work and for hoops, the shoots of this species were considered 
short and brittle, as compared with those of the others. There is a moth which 
inhabits this willow known as the Gothie moth, which is much esteemed by collectors 
on account of its rarity. Notwithstanding this it was seen in 1826 in Cheshire, in 
immense quantities during a thunderstorm. 
SPECIES (?) I—SALI X CUSPIDATA. Schultz. 
Prares MCCCIV. MCCCV. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. XI. Tab. DCXI. Fig. 1266. 
Anders. Mon. Sal. p. 37. Borrer in E. B. 8. Nos. 2961 and 2962, 
S. pentandra-fragilis, Wimm. Sal. Europ. p. 154. 
S. Meyeriana, Wild. Reich. Ic. l.c. p. 28. 
Leaves oblong-oval or oblong-elliptical, longly acuminate, finely and 
closely glandular-serrate, shining, glabrous on both sides; petiole with 
a few glands at the apex. Stipules half.cordate, oblique, frequently 
present. Catkins opening a little after the leaves, on short leafy 
lateral branches, spreading, dense, obtuse. Catkin-scales oblong, obtuse, 
pubescent all over or more rarely subglabrous at the apex. Stamens 
3 to 5; filaments hairy at the base. Capsule subulate, swollen at the 
base, glabrous, on a stalk 3 or 4 times as long as the nectary; style 
short; stigmas thick, notched, spreading. Young branches and young 
leaves glabrous. 
Found at Hanwood, near Shrewsbury, by Rev. W. A. Leighton, and 
subsequently near Pountsbury, Shropshire, by the Rev. L. Darwell, 
but doubtfully native. 
England. Tree. Early Summer. 
There can be very little doubt of this being a hybrid between Salix 
pentandra and S. fragilis. From §. pentandra it differs in having 
the leaves drawn out into a longer and more slender acumen, and 
thinner in texture, the catkins produced earlier, the rachis of the cat- 
kins more hairy, the catkin-scales generally clothed all over with short 
hairs, the stamens more often only 3 or 4, the catkins on longer stalks, 
narrower, and more attenuated at the apex. It also often attains a 
greater height. 
From S$. fragilis it differs in the leaves being shorter and broader, 
more rounded at the base, and much more acuminate at the apex, 
brighter green above, and not glaucous beneath, more finely glandular- 
serrate at the margin, and on petioles glandular at the apex. The cat- 
kins are produced later, and the stamens are generally more than 2. 
