748 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
men 1. Ovary ovate, very pubescent, sessile, downy. Stigmas nearly 
sessile, ovate, scarcely emarginate. (Hook.) An erect bush. Height 6 ft. 
to 8 ft. England, about Lewes, Sussex, in hosier holts, but scarcely wild ; 
at Kingston upon Thames, apparently wild. Flowers yellow ; May. 
‘A very beautiful species. 
a 5. S. Forsya\v4 Smith. Forby’s Willow, or the fine Basket Osier. 
Identification. Smith Eng. FL, 4. p.191.; Hook. Br. FL, ed. 3., p. 418. 
Synonymes. _S. fissa Lin, Soc. Trans., not of Hoff. (Smith) ; S. ribra @ Koch Comm. p. 27. 
The Sexes, The female is described in Eng. Fl., and figured in Eng. Bot. The male is not known, 
Engravings. Eng. Bot., t. 1344.3 Sal. Wob., No. 5,; N. Abbild., t.172.; and fig. 5. in p. 791. 
Spec. Char., $c. Branches erect. Leaves alternate, with small stipules, lanceo- 
late-oblong, with shallow serratures, smooth, rounded at the base, glaucous 
beneath. Stamen 1. Style nearly as long as the linear divided stigmas. 
(Smith.) An erect deciduous shrub. England. Height 5 ft, to 8 ft. Flowers 
yellow; April. 
The shoots are slender, smooth, very flexible, and tough ; of a greyish yellow, 
not purple, hue; and very valuable for the finer sorts of wickerwork, for 
basket-making, and for bands for tying faggots and packets. 
2 + 6. S. rubra Huds. The red, or green-leaved, Willow, or Osier. 
Identification. Wuds. Fl. Angl., p. 428.; Smith’s Eng. Fl., 4. p. 191. ; Hook. Br. Fl., ed. 3., p. 418. 
Synonymes. The name rdbra seems to be originally given to S. vitellina, a reddish [? twigged] 
variety of which was confounded with S. rubra Huds. , S. linearis Walker’s Essays p. 467., on 
the authority of Borrer. 
The Sexes. Both are described in Eng. Fl. ; and the female is figured in Eng. Bot. and Sal. Wob. 
Engravings. Eng. Bot., t.1145.; Sal. Wob., No. 6., and our jig. 6. in p. 792. 
Spec. Char., §c. Stamens combined below in a manner which affords a cha- 
racter in which it differs from all other British kinds of willow, except S. 
Crowedna, and from nearly all the foreign kinds. Mr. Borrer, however, has 
observed the same thing occasionally in S. fasca, and in several of the Ci- 
nérez. “ Leaves linear-lanceolate, elongate, acute, smooth, with shallow 
serratures ; green on both sides. Stigmas ovate, undivided.” (Smith.) A 
large shrub or low tree. England, in low meadows and osier holts, as at 
Maidenhead, &c., but rare ; in Scotland, frequent in hedges and osier 
grounds. Height 10 ft. to 20ft. Flowers yellow; May and April. 
One of the most valuable osiers in cultivation, for bands, crates, basket work 
or wickerwork, and even small hoops. 
Group ii. Acutifolie Borrer. (Syn. Pruindsee Koch.) 
Willows with dark Bark, covered with a fine Bloom. Principal species, 7, 8. 
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Stamens 2, distinct. — Tall shrubs, or becoming trees. Bark of the branches 
and shoots of a dark colour ; that of the branches suffused with a whitish 
matter, which is the character implied by Koch’s term Pruindsz. This 
matter is easily rubbed off. The bark is internally yellow, as in Group i. 
Foliage of a lively green. Leaves lanceolate, acuminately pointed, serrate, 
glossy ; in many instances, downy when young, subsequently glabrous. 
Ovary and capsule sessile, or nearly so. 
& ¢ 7, S. acuriro‘tia Willd. The pointed-leaved Willow. 
Identification. Willd. Sp. PL, 4. p. 668. ; Koch Comm., p. 22. 
Syenme S. violacea Andy. Bot. Rep. t. 581.; but not S. violcea Wélld., nor the S. caspica Hort. 
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The Sexes. .The male is figured in Sad. Wob., and is, perhaps, the only one cultivated in British 
collections. Koch has implied that the female was unknown to him in any state. 
Engravings. Andr, Bot. Rep., 581.; Sal. Wob., No. 25. ; and our fig. 25. in p. 794. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves linear-lanceclate, acuminated, smooth, with blunt 
unequal serratures, glaucous beneath. Catkins of the male about 1 in. 
long. (Willd.) A small tree. Podolia. Height 10 ft. to 15 ft. Introduced 
