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Title: 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
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843
Subjects: Trees Shrubs Plants
Publisher: London, Henry G. Bohn
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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sh midrib and veins. Footstalks reddish and downy, stout, mea-suring full ^ in. Catkins of the female cylindrical. (Smith.) A very distinctsallow, soon recognised to be different from S. macrostipulacca (Forbes)by its downy gcrmen, and much larger leaves. (Id.) There are plants atWoburn, Henfield, and Flitwick (where there is a var. called S. a. alpina),and also at Mes.srs. Loddigess. Specimens from the latter arboretum, alsobearing the names of S. ierpyllifolia and S. repens, were S. acuminata. App. i. Vimi7idles in the Coiinti-y^ but not described. S. trichocdrpa. A specimen obtained from Messrs. Loddiges, under this name, seems the same a*S. incaiia, according to a specimen of the latter obtained of Mr. Brooks ; but it may be an alliedkind, not yet described. Group xvi. Cinerecc Borrer.Sallows. — Trees and Shrubs, with roundish shaggy Leaves, and thick Catkitu. ilML Stamens 2 to a flower. Ovarv tomcntose with silkv tomcntiim. Leaves J I 2 1554 AHBORKTUM AND I-UUTICKTUM. PART 111.
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CHAP, cm. salicacea:. ^a lix. 1555 mostly obovate, toothed, grey or hoary, more or less wrinkled; very veinybeneath; stipuled branches downy. Plants trees or shrubs. The groupincludes the kinds of willow that are usually called the sallows. (Hook,Br. FL, ed. 2., adapted.) The sallows are known by their obovate, orrounded, downy leaves, and thick, early, silken catkins, with prominent,yellow, distinct stamens, 2 to a flower. (Smith Eng. FL, iv. p. 216.) Nota few of the group Nigricantes Borrer also have been regarded as sallows.Mr. Borrer, however, states that he is unacquainted with many of thespecies, or supposed species, of this group, and of the group Nigricantes ;and it is highly probable that many of them are placed wrongly. (Borrer ina letter.) ji 83. S. palijda Forbes. The pale Willow. Identfflcation. Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 96. The Seres. The female is described and figured in Sal. Wob. Engravings. Sal. Wob., No. !I6. ; anifig. 95. in p. 1620. Spec. Char., $fc. Leaves lanceol

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