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(11. S. decip'iens. Leaves spear-shaped, serrated, very smooth: 
foot-stalks somewhat glandular: germen tapering, stalked: 
floral-leaves dilated, and bluntish: branches smooth and highly 
polished. 
E. Bot. 1937— Hojfm. Sal. v. 2. 9. t. 31. 
Bark of the last year’s shoots very smooth and shining, light reddish 
brown or clay-colour, appearing as if varnished. Young twigs often 
stained beautifully with crimson. Leaves resembling those of S. Rus~ 
selliana, but smaller, and those on the short flowering branches re¬ 
markably different, being obtuse, nearly obovate, and recurved, except 
only the upper one. Stamens two, rarely three. Nectary in the barren 
plant double. Germen stalked, tapering, smooth. Scales all elliptic- 
oblong, hairy. E. Bot. 
White Welsh or Varnished Willow. Observed wild by Mr. T. F. 
Forster, near Tunbridge; in Northumberland and Durham by Mr. 
Winch; by Mr. Woolgar in moist hedges about Lewes; and by Mr. 
Crowe in cultivated osier-grounds in Norfolk and Cambridgeshire. 
Osier-beds in Barrow-Hill, near Dudley. Rev. W. T. Bree in Purt. 
Collington Woods, Edinburgh. Hooker. A small tree. May. E.)* 
12. S. pentan'dra. Pentandrous: leaves egg-spear-shaped, acute, 
glandulose-serrated : (germens smooth, nearly sessile; stamens 
hairy at the base. E.) 
Dicks. II. S. —( E . Bot. 1805. E.)— Gmel. i. 34. 1— El. Lapp. 8. z. a leaf 
only. 
From six to ten feet high, or more. Branches yellowish purple, smooth, 
shining. Leaves glossy, in hot weather exhaling an odoriferous perfume 
from the marginal glands. (A handsome plant, readily known by its 
broad, bright, very shining leaves, and its broad sterile catkins , with 
numerous crowded yellow stamens. Hook. E.) 
Sweet Bay-leaved Willow. (Welsh: Helygen heraroglaidd. E.) Moist 
woods, hedges, and sides of rivers. Common about Kendal. Mr. 
Gough. In the north of England, and Coomb Wood, Surry. About 
Com. v. 298. The Rev. S. Dickenson, Rector of Blymhill, has famished me with 
specimens, accompanied by the following remarks :—“ Of this estimable tree only fer¬ 
tile plants occur in Britain : from rapidity of growth and the extraordinary bulk to 
which it attains, this is one of the most, profitable to plant of the willow kind. In less 
than thirty years from planting the cuttings I have experienced that it will afford a consi¬ 
derable quantity of very useful boards for various purposes. Being of excellent cleft, it 
is convertible, at a light expence, into hurdle bars, and is cultivated for that purpose by 
some agriculturists in this neighbourhood, particularly where large flocks of sheep are 
depastured upon turnip soils. In Worcestershire it is in great estimation for hop poles. 
The celebrated willow', near Lichfield, which goes by the name of the Johnson Willow, 
(not that it was planted by the sage, but that he delighted to repose under its shade,) 
proves to be S. Russelliana.” In consequence of this information, the Editor paid 
a visit to the far-famed willow, which is situated by the foot-path leading direct from 
the Minster to Stowe. The magnitude of this tree is surprising, especially when the 
general character of its congeners is considered. The trunk at six feet above the 
ground measures twenty-one feet in girth, and extends twenty feet in height of that vast 
size before dividing into enormous ramifications. The whole trunk, thus comprising 
about 130 feet of solid timber, continues perfectly sound, and the very extensive head 
shows unimpaired vigour. A younger plant, (though a full sized tjee,) in the adjoining 
meadow, promises to sustain the reputation of its sire. E.) 
* (Produces good rods for basket work while young. E.) 
