"" AMENTACE/E. [FopuluS. 



******* BicoLORES, Borr. 



Leaves glabrous or nearly so, dark green above, very glaucous beneath, between 

 obovale and lanceolate. Germens very silky. Twiggy bushes." — Br. Fl. 3rd. ed. 



11. S. laurina, Sm. Intermediate Willow. "Young leaves 

 and shoots densely pubescent or hairy towards the summit, leaves 

 at length glabrous glaucous beneath dull green above after being 

 dried."— 5r. Fl. p. 394. S. bicolor, E. B. t. 1806. 



By a little pool close to Newtown, on llie right-hand of the road from Shalfleet, 

 between the town-hall and Fretlands farm, pointed out to me as this .species by 

 Mr Borrer a few years ago. [Dr. Bell-Sailer also believes that he finds it in a 

 hedge by the side of a horse-path from Alverstone to Nunwell down.— Edrs.} 



II. PopuLus, Linn. Poplar. 



"Scales of the catkins usually jagged, very rarely quite entire. 

 Perianth cup-shaped, oblique, entire, surrounding the stamens and 

 pistil; nectariferous glands 0. — Barren floivers : — Stamens i — 30, 

 — Fertile floivers :— Stigmas 2, bipartite or 3- or 4-cleft. Capsule 

 2-celled by the iatroflexion of the edges of the valves, loculicidal." 

 ~Br. Fl. 



* Scales of the catkins hairy or silky. Catkins in fruit dense. Stamens 4—8. 

 Stigmas with narrow divisions. Leuce. 



_ t ? 1. P. alha, L. White Poplar Ahele. " Leaf-buds downy not 

 viscous, leaves roundish cordate lobed toothed glabrous and 

 shining above downy and very white beneath old ones sometimes 

 glabrous."^ Br. Fl. p. 400. Guimp: und Hayne, Abbild. der 

 Deutsch. Holtzart. ii. 265, t. 202. * Fl. Dan. xiii. t. 2132 (an 

 vera?). 



p. canescens. Leaves smaller, roundish. P. canescens, Sm. : Guimp. und 

 Hayne, Abbild. der Deutsch. Holtzart. ii. 262, t. 201. Fl. Ban. xiii. t. 2133 (an 

 vera ?) 



In moist woods, meadows, hedges and banks of rivers ; scarcely wild. Fl. 

 " March, April."— .Br. Fl. Ij . 



In a hedge near Pajiham farm, betwixt Newport and Godshill, but I am not 

 sure the only tree found there might not have been a young one of var. j8., in 

 which state the leaves, as is the case with the Aspen, are angular and acute. 

 Commonly cultivated in plantations for the beauty of its ever-changing foliage 

 when agitated by the summer breeze. 



|8. Very frequent about Pagham farm in hedges, and in a small wet wood near 

 the same, close to which, on a common, is a large tree of this species. Near 

 Landguard farm, by Shanklin, are some fine trees, but with too much appearance 

 of having been planted. In a low moist spot between Osborne and Beckett's 



? 12. S. Forsteriana, Sm. 



Dr. Bell-Salter found, some years ago, what he considers S. Forsteriana, in 

 Northwood park, W. Cowes. As it appears to be quite a northern species, and 

 only a single tree was detected, it was most probably introduced by some 

 accident into the plantation there, in which willows of several kinds have been 

 propagated. Phytol. iii. p. 840. 



* And for interesting remarks on the specific identity of both forms. 



