1592 



AKIU)UETl?M AND FKUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



July, and, in the 



native of Lapland; flowering then 



willow garden at Woburn Abbey, in April, and again in 



July. Introduced in 1820. The branches and leaves of ^j 

 this species are more tender during the spring than those of ffi 

 S. herbacea; the stem is almost filiform. Leaves broadly 

 J.>o( oyate, or somewhat roundish, ovate, or obovatc; hardly 

 ever BO narrow as to be called oblong; and shining on both sides. Mr. 

 Forbes says this plant bears a strong affinity to S. herbacea; but that the 

 silk} guineas and glaucous leaves clearly show it to be distinct. There 

 are plants at llenticld. 



Group xxiii. Hastata Borrer. 



how Shrubs, with very broad Leaves, and exceedingly shaggy and silky Catkins. 



(Hook Br. Fl.) 



,* 



, A$L 



1G3. S. hastaVa L. 



The halberd-leaved Willow. 



Willd. Sp. PL, 4. p. 664, ; Smith in Rees's 



Identification. Lin. Sp. PL, 108. ; Fl. Lapp, cd. 2.. 



C\ilo., No. 22. ; Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 35. 

 Syuonymc. S. hastata Koch, part of, and, if the kinds indicated below as varieties be admitted as 



such, all of Koch's & hastata, except .S". WulfemVJfia Willd., Koch Comm., p. 42. 

 The Sexes. The female is described and figured in Sal. Wob. Smith has noted in lices's Cycio that 



he had not seen male flowers. 

 Engravings. Lin. Fl. Lapp., ed. 2. t. 8. f. 9. ; Sal. Wob., No. 35. ; our fig. 1352. ; and fig. 35. in p. 1611. 



Spee. Char., c^c. Leaves ovate, acute, serrated, undulated, crackling, glabrous ; 

 heart-shaped at the base, glaucous beneath. Stipules unequally heart- 

 shaped, longer than the broad footstalks. Catkins very woolly. Ovary 

 lanceolate, glabrous, on a short stalk. {Smith in 

 Rees's Cycio.) A native of the mountains of Lap- 

 land. It is said that Messrs. Lee and Kennedy 

 first brought it into this country, in about 1780. It 

 rises to a small spreading tree, and flowers in April 

 or May. Branches blackish, hairy when very young 

 only. Leaves 3 in. long, and about half as wide. 

 ( Id.) It generally attains the height of 4ft. to 5 ft. 

 ( Forbes.) Koch, viewing the species as comprising 

 the varieties indicated below and S. Wulfemana * 

 Willd. , has given the geographical distribution of 

 it as follows : — Moist places, and by rivers in the 

 alpine and subalpine regions of Savoy, Switzerland, 

 Germany, and Carpathia, Sweden, and Britain. Its 



Certain British station seems that discovered \:\. r -.'> 



by Mr. P. Drummond, "by a small stream that passes through the sands 

 <>\ Barrie, Dear Dundee;." (/for.) In the north of Sweden, it inhabits 

 the bogl of the lower regions and plains. S. malifdlia Smith, indicated 

 below ai a variety of 8. hastata, is the kind of the latter that is indigenous 

 to B ritai n. Koch, according to his view of the contents of S. hastata 



l>< i u , has ascribed to it. a variousness in the form of the leaf of from 

 lanceolate tO OVBte, with a heart-shaped base. 



Varieties. 



* S. A. i runlnla. — Leaves broadly ovate, heart-shaped at the base; 



synon. 9. hastata Witid. Sp. /'/., iv. p. 664. But Wahlenberg has 

 accurately remarked that the description relates to a shoot devoid 

 of flowers ! the same kind, in a flowcr-l>e;iring state, is the S. serru- 

 late WUld. S/>. /'/., iv. p. 664. (Koch Comm., p. 43.) This variety of 

 Ko< IT , ire Consider ai blended in OUT first, Or typical, kind. Willde- 

 now ha. riven Lapland ai the native country of both his S. hastata 



