. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. 770 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. Group xiv. GlauccE Borrer. Small, npright, with soft silky Leaves. Prin. sp. 61. and 62. Stamens 2 to a flower. Ovary very downy, or silky, sessile. — Plants small shrubs, most of them upright; all, or most of them, remarkable for their foliage, w
. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. 770 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. Group xiv. GlauccE Borrer. Small, npright, with soft silky Leaves. Prin. sp. 61. and 62. Stamens 2 to a flower. Ovary very downy, or silky, sessile. — Plants small shrubs, most of them upright; all, or most of them, remarkable for their foliage, which consists of leaves that are oblong-lanceolate, soft, hairy, silky, and, in most, white and cottony on the under surface. The kinds are very closely akin, each among the rest. {Hook.) Only S. glauca L., S. arenaria L., and S. StuartiOHa Smith are associated together under the above cha- racteristics in Hook. Br. Fl., ed. 2. Of the kinds brought together below, as agreeing more or less in the quality of similarity, Mr. Borrer has indicated S. elaeagnilolia Forbes (elsagnoides Schleicher), S. glauca L., S. sericea Villars, S. Lapponum L., S. arenaria L., S. arenaria var., S. leuco- phylla Schleicher ; and S. Stuartiana Smith. as 60. S. iLjsAGNOi'DES Schleicher (Sal. Wob., No. 69.; and/g. 69. in p. 804.), is described in our first edition. -u 61. S. GLAu'cA L. The glaucous Mountain Willow. Ueniification. Lin. Sp. PI., 1446. i Eng. Flora, 4. p. 201.; Hook. Br. Fl., ei 2., p. 4in. Synoni/me. S. appendiculata FL Dan. , Willd. Sp. PI. 4. p. 690. T/ie Series. Both sexes are described in Eng. Fl.; tiie female is figured in Bug. Bot. Engravings. Eng. Bot., t. 1810. ; Sal. Wob., No. 68. ; our fig. 1458.; unijig. 08. in p. 804. Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves nearly entire, elliptic-lanceo- ,^ late; even, and nearly glabrous above ; woolly and [yg snowy-white beneath. Footstalks decui-rent. Ovary sessile, ovate, woolly. {Smith.) A low shrub. High- lands of Scotland. Stem 2 ft. to
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