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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
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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l^in. long, or more. Stamens 3—5, bearded at the base. (Sal. Wob.,p. 63.) Mr. Forbes believes that the kind which he has elucidated is anative of Switzerland; but the S. lucida Muhlenb. is a native of NorthAmerica; and this may be one reason, at least, why Mr. Sweet distinguishedthe plants of the two countries as of two species, as shown under Synonymes,above. S. lucida of the Salictum Woburnense forms a handsome low-growingtree, with the branches of the preceding year of a greyish green colour, andsmooth: the young twigs are of a yellowish green, somewhat striated, orangular, at the points. It flowers in April and May, and appears a good CHAP. CHI. ^ALICACE^. 5A^LiX. 1507 basket willow. Mr. Forbes received it from Messrs, Loddiges, under thename of S. Meyeriana; which species, he says, is readily distinguished fromS. iucida by its much larger leaves, and shorter obtuse catkins. There areplants in the Goldworth Arboretum, and in the salictum at Woburn. Group V. Fragiles Borrer.Trees

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