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SALIX FRAGILIS. 
CRACK WILLOW. 
STNONTMA. 
Salix. Pharm. Edinb. Salix folio longo latoquc 
fplendente, fragilis. Raii Synop. p. 448. Salix fragilis. Bauh* 
Pin. p. 474. Hall. Stirp. Helv. n. 1638. . Hud/on. Flor. Ang. 
p. 426. Withering. Bot. Arr. p. 1102. Relban. Flor. Cant. p. 
36S- 
Flor, Lap. t. S.f. 6. Hunter s Evelyn s Sylva^p. 245 
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Clafs Dioecia. Ord. Diandria. Lin, Gen. Plant. 1098. 
EJf. Gen. Ch. Masc. Amenti fquamse. Cor. o. Glandula bafeos 
nectarifera. 
Fem. Amenti fquamae. Cor. o. Stylus 2-fidus. 
Caps, i-locularis, 2-valvis. Sem. pappofa. 
Sp. Ch. 
S. foliis ferratis glabris ovato-lanceolatis, petiolis dentato 
glandulofis. 
THIS fpecies grows to a considerable height, fending off large 
branches, and is covered with wrinkled bark of a grey colour : the 
leaves are long, narrow, ovate, or lance-fhaped, ferrated, and placed 
upon footftalks, which are furnifhed with glandular teeth : the flowers 
are male and female upon different trees, and produced in catkins : 
the calyx, or common catkin of the male flower, is oblong, imbri- 
cated ; inclofed by an involucrum formed of a bud, and confiding of 
fcales, which are oblong, flat, expanding, and unifloral : there is no 
corolla: the ne&arium is a fmall cylindrical truncated gland, con- 
taining honey, and placed in the centre of the flower : the filaments 
are two, itraight, filiform, longer than the calyx, and furnifhed with 
double antherae of four cells : in the female flower the fcaly catkin 
reiembles that of the male: the germen is egg-fhaped, tapering 
fo 
as to leave no diftincl: ftyle, and is longer than the fcales : the ftigmata 
are two, bifid and ereci : the capful e is ovate, one-celled,, and fur- 
nifhed 
