. 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 . 1502 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART IH. 1299. Mocca-stone moth (Smithand Abbotts hisects, ; and our fig. 1299.)The caterpillars of thisinsect
. 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 . 1502 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART IH. 1299. Mocca-stone moth (Smithand Abbotts hisects, ; and our fig. 1299.)The caterpillars of thisinsect appear all collectedtogether in a web spunamong the leaves. Thelarva is of a bright yel-low, streaked with brown,and the imago of a palebrown. The insect isequally common in Eu-rope and in are plants in theTwickenham BotanicGarden, and the Hackneyarboretum; and at Wo-burn, Henfield, and Flitwick. i 13. S. ViLLARSz^^A^^ Fliigge et Willd. Villarss Willow, or Osier. Identification. Fliigge in Litt, quoted in Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 655.; Smith in Reess Cycl., No. 63.; Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. S. triandra Villars Delph., 3. p. 76-2. ; S. amygdilina var. Koch Comm., p. Sexes. Both sexes are described by Willd.; the male is figured in Sal. Wob., and ia in the London Horticultural Societys Sal. Wob., No. 17. ; and^^. 17. in p. 1606. Spec. Char., ^c. Leaves elliptical, rounded at the base, pointed at the tip,serrated, whitely glaucous ben
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