. Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum; or, The trees and shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, hardy and half-hardy, pictorially and botanically delineated, and scientifically and popularly described; with their propagation, culture, management, and uses in the arts, in useful and ornamental plantations, and in landscape-gardening; preceded by a historical and geographical outline of the trees and shrubs of temperate climates throughout the world . y allied to S. Weigel-idna, and more nearly to S. Crowedna. (Borrer in Suppl.) Mr. G. Anderson first distinguished thekind; and the male
. Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum; or, The trees and shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, hardy and half-hardy, pictorially and botanically delineated, and scientifically and popularly described; with their propagation, culture, management, and uses in the arts, in useful and ornamental plantations, and in landscape-gardening; preceded by a historical and geographical outline of the trees and shrubs of temperate climates throughout the world . y allied to S. Weigel-idna, and more nearly to S. Crowedna. (Borrer in Suppl.) Mr. G. Anderson first distinguished thekind; and the male specimens figured were derived froma plant that he communicated to Mr. Borrer: the femalecame from Teesdale. The kind is an upright shrub, taller,and of rather stouter growth, than S. Borren«na, which itresembles in the dark mahogany hue of its shining twigs,most remarkable in the male. Young shoots slightly pu- 1341bescent. Petioles short, reddish. Disk of leaf about l|in. long, in manyinstances waved or twisted; upper surface dark green, shining, more or lesssilky when young, afterwards glabrous, except on the midrib ; under surfaceglaucous, and even white. The flowers appear with Mr. Borrer earlier thanthe leaves, in April or May, about a fortnight later than those of S. Borrer-idna. Catkins of the male scarcely lin. long; of the female, by the figiu-e,more than 1 in. There are plants at Woburn, Flitwick, Henfield, Goldworth,and CHAP. cm. ^ALICA^CE^. 5ALIX. 1583 A 141, S. Crowea^na Smith. Crowes Willow. Identification. Smith Kng. Bot., t. 1146.; Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 675. ; Smith in Reess Cyclo., No. 51.; Eng. Fl., 4. p. IM. ; Forbes in SaU Wob., No. 52.; Hook. Br. Fl., S. arbiiscula Wahlenb., var. Koch Comm., p. 45.; S. hdmilis Schl. is cited in SaL Wob. as the female of S. Crowedna .Smith ; ? .S. hcteroph5lla Sexes. Both sexes are de»cril)ed in Eng. Bot., and figured in Sal. Wob. Mr. Borrer deems the case of the combination of the tila
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