CHAP. CHI. i'ALICA CEJE. S\ LIX. 1555 



or in general quite, wanting in the female. Their sides, in that stage of 

 growth, are closely rolled back, as is usual in the group to which this 

 species belongs." (Eng. Bot.) There are plants at Woburn Abbey, at 

 Henfield, and at Flitwick : at the latter place, one specimen, seven years 

 planted, is 10 ft. high, with a trunk 7 in. in diameter. It is also in the 

 Goldworth Arboretum, and at Messrs. Loddiges's, whence we have had 

 specimens of both sexes. 



1 82. S. acuminata Smith. The acuminated-/^ ved, or large-leaved. Sallow, 



or Willow. 



Identification. Smith Fl. Brit., p. 1068., excluding- the references to Mill. Diet, and He-ffm. Sal. 

 (Smith in Eng. Fl.)-, Willd. Sp. PL, 4. p. 704., excluding the reference to Hoffm. Sal. ; ? Hayne 

 Abbild., p. 251. ; Koch Coram., p. 30., exclusively of some of the synonymes; Smith Eng. Bot., 

 t. 1484 ; Eng. Fl., 4. p. 227. j Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 131. ; Hook. Br. Fl., ed. 2., p. 421. ; Mackay 

 Fl. Hibern., pt. 1. p. 250. 



Synonyme. S. lanceolata Seringe. 



The Sexes. The female is described in Eng. FL, and figured in Eng. Bot. and in Sal. Wob. Koch 

 has described the male, if what he has described belongs to this species. 



Engravings. Eng. Bot., t. 1434. ; Sal. Wob., No. 131. ; ? Hayne Abbild., 1. 193. ; our fig. 1330.; and 

 fig. 131. in p. 1628. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Stem erect. Leaves lanceolate-oblong, pointed, wavy, finely 

 toothed, glaucous and downy beneath. Stipules half-ovate, then kidney- 

 shaped. Catkins cylindrical. Ovary stalked, ovate, hairy. Style as long 

 as the undivided stigmas. (Smith E. F.) A native of England, in wet 

 grounds; flowering in April and May. Neither Mr. Borrer nor Mr. Forbes 

 has ever found this species wild. (Hook. Br. FL, ed. 2.) Localities in 

 Ireland for it are stated in Mackay's Flora Hibemica. Smith and Forbes 

 place this kind among the true sallows. (Ibid.) In its upright mode of 

 growth, in the shape of its leaves, and in its general habit, it agrees much 

 better with 6". viminalis, S. stipularis, and S. Smithidna than with any of 

 the sallow tribe. At Florence Court, where I collected specimens in the 

 autumn of 1833, it has become a tree of about 20 ft. high, although grow- 

 ing in an elevated situation. (Mackay in Flora Hibern.) The following de- 

 scription is derived from Eng. Fl. and Sal. Wob., chiefly from the former : — 

 Generally of more humble growth than the S. caprea ; though sometimes 

 becoming a lofty tree, with upright, or less spreading, branches, which are 

 always minutely downy, and very soft to the touch. Leaves of a totally 

 different shape, commonly 3 in. or 4 in. long, and 1 in. at least in breadth; 

 elliptic-lanceolate, tapering to an acute point, either flat or somewhat 

 rugged, with copious, though shallow and unequal, marginal notches ; the 

 upper side green and smooth, except the midrib ; under side paler, and, 

 in a young state, glaucous ; delicately soft and downy, with a prominent 

 reddish midrib and veins. Footstalks reddish and downy, stout, mea- 

 suring full | in. Catkins of the female cylindrical. (Smith.) A very distinct 

 sallow, soon recognised to be different from S. macrostipulacea (Forbes) 

 by its downy germen, and much larger leaves. (Id.) There are plants at 

 Woburn, Henfield, and Flitwick (where there is a var. called S. a. alpina), 

 and also at Messrs. Loddiges's. Specimens from the latter arboretum, also 

 bearing the names of S. serpyllifolia and S. repens, were S. acuminata. 



App. i. Viminales in the Country, but not described. 



S. trichocdrpa. A specimen obtained from Messrs. Loddiges, under this name, seems the same as 

 S. incana, according to a specimen of the latter obtained of Mr. Brooks ; but it may be an allied 

 kind, not yet described. 



Group xvi. Cinerece Borrer. 



Sallows. — Trees and Shrubs, with roundish shaggy Leaves, and thick Catkins. 



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Stamens 2 to a flower. Ovary tomentose with silky tomentum. Leaves 



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