Salix 1749 



soon becoming glabrous ; dark green and very shining on the upper surface ; minutely 

 glandular-serrate ; petiole slender, nearly ^ in. long. Stamens four to six. 



This hybrid, the parents of which are supposed to be S. pentandra and S. 

 alba, is known on the Continent in the staminate form. Buchanan White refers to 

 it two specimens : one, a shrub with pistillate catkins, growing near Duddingston, 

 Edinburgh, and the other, a barren specimen from a bush at Restennet, near Forfar. 

 It has recently been found ^ in the Lake District in Cumberland and Westmoreland. 



S. pentandra is a native of nearly the whole of Europe — except the extreme 

 south — the Caucasus, and northern Asia, as far east as Kamtschatka and Amurland, 

 and apparently extending to the province of Yunnan, in China. It grows mainly 

 on river banks, and in marshy places, ascending in peat mosses in the Alps to 4000 

 ft. elevation. It grows in similar situations in Britain^ from Argyle and Moray 

 southwards to Derbyshire, ascending in Northumberland^ to 1300 ft. In Ireland,* 

 it is frequent and native in the north, becoming less common southwards, till in 

 Kerry and Cork it appears only as an introduction. (A. H.) 



The bay willow makes a handsome tree, with very distinct foliage, but is 

 rather slow in growth. The finest specimens we have seen are : — one at Kew, on 

 the lawn near the Palm House, which measured, in 1907, 58 ft. by 9 ft. 8 in. 

 at eighteen inches above the ground, its trunk forking at three feet. Another at 

 Woburn was 50 ft. by 5 ft. in 1908, with a short bole. A handsome tree at Beauport, 

 Sussex, measured in 191 1 about 35 ft. by 6 ft., with a bole 6 ft. long, another 

 near the keeper's lodge not being quite so large. (H. J. E.) 



SALIX BABYLONICA, Weeping Willow 



Salix babylonica, Linnaeus, Sp. PL 1017 (1753); Loudon, Arb. et Frut. Brit. iii. 1507, and iv. 

 2588 (1838); Andersson, Monog. Salic. 50 (1863), and in De CandoUe, Prod. xvi. 2, p. 212 

 (1868); Willkomm, Forstliche Flora, 471 (1887); Mathieu, Flore Forestiere, 453 (1897); 

 Burkill, vtxjourn. Linn. Soc. {Bat.) xxvi. 526 (1899); Camus, Monog. des Saules, 65 (1904). 



Salix pendula, Moench, Meth. 336 (1794). 



Salix propendens, Seringe, Saules de la Suisse, 73 (1815). 



Salix Napoleonis, Schultz, Arch. Fl. 239 (1856). 



A tree, attaining 30 to 40 ft. in height, with rough ridged bark, and usually with 

 a short trunk, and wide-spreading branches, the ultimate branchlets being very long 

 and pendulous. Branchlets slender, glabrous except near the nodes. Leaves 

 linear-lanceolate, about 2| to 3^^ in. long, and J to f in. broad, tapering at the apex 

 into a long slender acuminate thread-like point, cuneate at the base, slightly pubescent 

 when young, perfectly glabrous when fully grown, bright green and shining above, 

 pale and covered with a glaucous bloom beneath ; margin finely serrate, the serra- 

 tions often ending in minute sharp incurved points ; petiole ^ in. long, without 

 glands, glabrous or slightly pubescent ; stipules early deciduous. 



1 Journ. Bot. xxviii. 229 {1900). ^ Hooker, Student's Flora, 355 (1878). 



3 Baker and Tate, Fl. Northumberland and Durham, 248 (1868), state: "Frequent in damp woods and by stream 

 sides, ascending in Coquetdale to Harbottle, in Allendale to 450 yards, and in Teesdale to the junction of the Whey Sike with 

 Harwood Beck.'' 



* Praeger, in Proc, Roy. Irish Acad. vii. 282 (1901). 



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