1494 IRBORETUM and FRUTICETUM. PART ill. 



;. oafti ot feni.. Host Sal, 1. p. 13. t. 14, 45., VI. Aust ., 8, p. (,41. Abundant in Car- 

 »h«re it is used by the inhabitants, far many purposes j such u hedges for small gardens, 

 meadows, and rtonj fields. It is also planted on the banks of streams, tor fixing by its roots their 

 llddy or gravelly bank*. I'lu- sboots Of the year are very long, un branched ," and tough: when 

 peeled, they are yellow, and are much used in basket-making. At the time of flowering, many of the 

 ovaries become wounded by insects, and afterwards much enlarged. 



B .jWav, mas. Host Sal., 1. p. 13. t 4<>., Fl. Aust., 8. p. 641. Of the catkins upon a plant, 



BOOM consist of male rtowers only, some of female flowers only, and many of male flowers inter- 

 mixed with female ones. In some catkins, male flowers occupy the lowest part of the catkin, 

 .uuV female flowers the remaining part ; and catkins are found which have the flowers in the 

 kewei and upper part male, and in the intermediate part female. Each flower includes two 

 distinct stamens, or two connate in the lower part, or connate to near the tip, or often a single 

 stamen. It is not rare to find filaments devoid of anthers. These anomalies in the flowers of this 

 species are probably alluded to in the epithet mirabilis. 



Group ii. Acutifbluz Borrer. (Sg?i. Pruinosae Koch.) 



fVShwt with dark Bark, covered with a fine Bloom. 



a 



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 Pruinosae. This matter 

 is easily rubbed oft*. 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. (Koch, Forbes, and observation.) 



a f 7. 5. acutifo v lia Willd. The pointed-leaved Willow. 



Identification. Willd. Sp. PL, 4. p. 668. ; Koch Comm., p. 22. 



Symmymc. S. i/iolacea Andr. Bot. Rep., t. 581., Smith in llecs's Cyclo., No. 33., Forbes in Sal. 

 Hob., No. 25., and of many English collections ; but not S. inolacea Willd., nor the S. caspica Hort. 

 {Willd.) 



The Sezes. The male is figured in Sml. Wob. t and is, perhaps, the only one cultivated in British col- 

 lections. Koch has implied that the female was unknown to him in any state. 



Engravings. Andr. Bot. Uep., 581.; Sal. Wob., No. 25. ; and our fig. 25. in p. 1607. 



Spec. Char., cfc. Leaves linear-lanceolate, acuminated, smooth, with blunt 

 unequal serratures, glaucous beneath. Catkins of the male about 1 in. long. 

 (Sal. Wob., p. 49.) It is indigenous to Podolia, according to Besser. (Koch 

 Comm.) It was introduced into Britain previously to 1810, as Mr. Borrer 

 saw it growing in St. Andrew's Square, Edinburgh, in that year. In England, 

 it flowers in March or April, before the expansion of the leaves. It is a 

 small tree, with dark violet coloured branches, slender, upright, and co- 

 vered all over with a whitish powder, like the bloom of a plum. Only 

 the male plant is in the Woburn salictum. This is a very beautiful species, 

 well deserving of culture in an ornamental point of view ; and Mr. Forbes 

 thinks its twigs would be useful for wickerwork. The catkins of the male 

 are ornamental, hut, so far as we have seen, are not numerously produced. 

 The leaves are rather elegant. Its shoots and roots have the inner part of 

 the hark, or covering, of a yellow colour, and very bitter flavour; and, 

 hence, thifl kind may he eligible for planting upon banks in which rats 

 borrow. In the Horticultural Society's Garden, in 1835, there was a plant 

 of this Bpeciefl 15ft. high. There are plants in the Hackney and Gold- 

 1th arboretum! j and at Wohurn Abbey, Flitwick House, and Henfield. 



* 8. .V. DAPHNoVDEfl Villars. The Daphne-like Willow. 



000ft, Vill. Daupb., i p. 7(15., t. 50. f. 7., " t. 5. f. 2." as quoted by Host ; Koch Comm., 

 11,/,,,, in Sturm D. /•'/., 1. 25., Willd. Sp. I'/., 4. p. 670., exclusively of the 



Hoppe hi sturm l>. /•/., I. zo., willd. .v/>. J't., *. p. n/u., exclusively oi rr.e 



• ,;, of HO*. Smith in Beet'l CydO.. NO 40., Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 26. ; ,S\ bigdmmil Ilojf'm. 



.' , | , S I In) " ■ Ho$t :,„!. Au.slr., 1. p. H. t. 86, 27. Mr. Horror, in a letter, 



i, iri"'i that Smith hoi erroneously cited, in bin Flora /int., s. dephnrjldei ViUon as a 



,,,,n, , md thai thin hat led Koch to cite S. cinerea Smith as a lynonytne 



/ / ,11m 



:,<■ figured in 8*1, Wob., and both arc described ami figured in Hoii 



!„ I, 



Vill I), i.,,l, , , f 50 f 7 POI I i f 2 j Hoflbl. Sal, 1. .12. ; Sal. Wob., No. 26. ; 



v 26, // ; our/-/' [SOB , and fig -"• in p. iwx. 



