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obloni,^-ovate scarcely lontrer than the scales, style shorter ttn 

 the stigmas. JE. B. i. 1807.— /3. leaves lanceolate taperina 1 

 both ends (downy beneath when young), floral ones sim'ilar 

 ovary lanceolate-acuminate nearly twice as long as the scale' 

 style the length of the stigmas. S. Russelliana Sm. : E B 

 t 1808 (Bedford W.).— 7. leaves lanceolate (quite glabrous)" 

 floral ones often obovate bluntish and recurved, "ovary taper 

 ing, style longer than the stigmas." S. decipiens Hoffni. : E.B 

 t. 1937 (white Welsh or varnished W.). 



Marshy woods and osier-grounds, in many places. Tj . 



but in j8. they are 



4, 5. 



Young branches brittle, especially in the var. a 



in some situations equally so. Var, p. is an extremely vaiuab]e''trey' 

 and \yas first brought into notice by his Grace the late Duke of Bed' 



Of the size to which it reaches, some interesting details are 



ford. 



given m the introduction to the Salictum Wohiirnense, It was a tree 

 of this species, tlie favourite of Dr. Johnson at Lichfield, which 

 was very recently destroyed by a hurricane, after it had attained a 

 height of 60 feet, and a girth of IS feet Another, at Gordon 

 Castle, Scotland, at the age of 61, was 51 feet high, and above 11 feet 

 in its greatest circumference. So important is it as a plantation tree 

 that Mr. Lowe, in his Survey of the County of Notts., states that' 

 at 8 years' growth, the poles yielded a net profit of 214/. per acre; 

 and in 2 years longer, they would probably have produced SCO/, per 

 acre. ^ The late George Biggin, Esq. of Cosgrove Priory, ah able 

 chemist, ascertained that the hark contains the tanning principle in 

 a superior degree to that of the Oak : it is supposed by some, that 

 the medical properties said to belong to the var. a. are attributed to 

 It by mistake, and should be referred to the present; this opinion, 

 however, has not been confirmed. As to var. 7. ; its " bark is 

 polished like porcelain : the buds are black in spring : young shoots 

 often crimson, the colour extending occasionally to the midrib of the 

 leaves." Leefe. The leaves o? var. y. are quite glabrous, pale and 

 much reticulated beneath ; of var. a. often broad at the base, glabrous 

 or Slightly downy beneath when young ; and of var. 13, narrower than 

 the last and more downy beneath. Far. p. and 7. seem to occur 

 nowhere in a wild state : of the former the fertile, and of the latter 

 the sterile plants alone are, we believe, known, at least in this countrv. 



1 1. S. cilba L. (common ivhite W.) ; leaves elliptical-lanceolate 

 regularly glanduloso-serrate acute when young more or less 

 silky beneath often so above, ovaries ovate-acuminate nearly 

 sessile glabrous, stigmas nearly sessile short recurved bifid, 

 scales short pubescent at the margin much shorter than the 

 stamens and about the length of the ovary.— «. youn^ leaves 

 s.lky on both sides. E. B. t. 2430.-^. under-side of the 

 leaves less silky ullimately quite glabrous and glaucous. S. 



casrulea (blue Willow), E. B. t. 2431. 



River-sides, moist woods, &e. J^. 5. - A well known tree of, 

 considerable size, and of wlueh the var. y3. Is of such exceedinglv ■ 

 rapid growth, that it is by many still deemed a distinct species ; and 





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