

ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



loaves, it is dissimilar to S. viminalis : its bu< 

 indicate affinity to kimls of the group Cinereae. 



1 :>. S. CANDIDA WUld. The whitish Willow. 



and leaves seem rather to 

 rhere are plants at I lenfield. 



Identification. Willd Sp, PL, kp.708. ; Pursfa l'l. Amor. Sept., 2. p. 608. ; Smith in Rces's Qyclo., 

 N - . Forbw in Sal. Wob., No. 91. 



rhe male is described and figured in SaL Wob. 

 Sal Wob., No. 91. ; our Jig. 1326. ; tndfig. 91. in p. ltil!>. 



Spec. Cliar., Av. Leaves linear-laneeolate, very long, 

 obscurely toothed; downy above; beneath densely 

 downy. Stipules lanceolate, nearly the length of the 

 footstalks. ( Wiild.&nd Forbes.) A native of North Ame- 

 rica. Introduced in 1S1 I, ami flowering, in the willow- 

 garden at Woburn Abbey, about the end of February 

 or beginning of March. Leaves from 3 in. to 4 in. 

 long ; linear-lanceolate, narrow towards their extre- 

 mities, obscurely toothed; margins slightly revolute; 

 downy above, snow-white and cottony beneath ; with 

 a prominent midrib, and obscurely prominent lateral 

 veins, owing to the down. Catkin of the male 1 in. long, cylindrical. A 

 very handsome species, well deserving a place in shrubberies, both for its 

 ornamental white leaves, and very early flowers. There are plants at 

 Woburn and Henfield. 



Varieties. Mr Forbes mentions two varieties, one of which flowers full three 

 weeks earlier than the other, and has the anthers of a less deep scarlet. 

 ( Sal. Wob.) 



. - Y ?:>. S. i\(a v n\ Schranck. The hoarv-/er/m/ Willow, ? or Osier. 



Identification. Schranck Baicr (Bavar. i Fl., 1. p. 230. ; Koch Comm., p. 32. ; Forbes in Sal. Wob., 



S yna m umn . s. riparia Willd. Sp. I'L, \. p. 698., Smith in Rces's Cyclo., No. Hi., Hayne Abbild., 



p. 245., t Host Sal Austr., 1. p. 17.; S. lavandulefolia Lapeyr. Abr., p. 601., Seringe Sal. Helv., 



P 70. ; S, angu.-tifblia Pot'r. in Du Ham. Art)., ed. 1., :>. t. '2!).'; .S'. rosmarinifblia Gouan Hort., 501., 



met Salitb., No. 88., Scop. Cam., p.527., Host Spn., S29. ; S. viminalis Vilt. Delph., 3. 



p. 785. 



Tlir Sexes. Both arc figured in Hayne Ahhild. : the male is figured in Sal. Hob., where Mr. Forbes 

 has noticed that he had not seen the catkins of the other sex. If the kind of Host Sal. Austr. is 

 identical, both sexes of it are figured in that work. 



Ent>raiHit»s. Du Ham. Arb., ed. 1., ?,. t. 29. ; Hayne Abbild., t. 187.; Sal. Wob., No. 90. ; ? Host 

 Sal. Austr., t. 58, 5!). ; our fig. 1327. ; and.///,'. 90. in. p. l(il!>. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves linear-lanceolate, denticulated, hoary on the under 

 surface with hoary tomentuin. Catkins arched, slender, almost sessile, sub- 

 tended at the base with small leaves. Capsule ovate-lanceolate, glabrous, 



l.'W? 



stalked ; the stalk twice the length of the gland. 

 Style elongated. Stigmas bifid. Bracteas subgla- 

 brous, ciliate with short hairs. (Koch Comm.) The 

 following description of the kind is taken from Mr. 

 Forbes in Sal. Wob.l — " Branches villous, dark 

 brow n, whitish when young ; long and slender, angu- 

 l.ited at the top of the yOUXlg shoots, and distinctly 



waited; forming a bush 4ft. or 5 ft. high. Leaves 

 linear, from 3 in. to l» in. long; minutely serrated, 



or, rather, furnished with a few glandular teeth to- 



: margin slightly revolute; upper surface green and villous; 



ii, thickly clothed with white cottony down : the young leaves are all 



revolute and snowy-white. Footstalks bearing at. the summit, two glands, 



short and dilated at the ba ' • Catkins appearing before the leaves, barren 



- in. lOQg. The haves of this species, Mr. Forbes observes, bear a 



► the e of,V. viminalis ; while t he c;itkins, branches, and mode 



■. tli are quite different ; and that it never uses more than 5 It. or (i i\. 



Ho i haade cribed,inthe&r/. AutUr., his S. riparia as an elegant tree; 



Onlj mean a plant of tree-like figure, but slender and not of con- 

 Kodi tate thai tht ip< m is found in a wild state, in 



