543 
niflied with two valves which roll back : 
egg-fhaped, very fmall, and crowned with 
i 
- 
the feeds are numerous, 
t *t mm m 9 
a 
The flowers app 
April and May, 
fi mpl 
hairy pappus 
This 
I 
in feveral parts of En 
which grows in hedges and abo 
is eafily to b 
banks of 
c diftinguifhed from the 
other fpecies of willow, by the readinefs with which it breaks at the 
year's fhoot laft made upon being flightiy (truck with the'fi 
hence the name fragilis. 
and 
Th 
bark of the 
i 
ranches 
of this 
degree of bitternefs to the tafte 
tree manifefts a confid 
is alio aftrin 
been th 
was N found to Hop the paroxyfms of intermittents 
hence it has 
lit a good fubftitute for the Peruvian bark, and upon trial 
commended in other 
like wife 
es 
equ 
tonic or aftringent remedies 
Not only the bark of this fpecies of Salix, but that of feveral others 
poffefs fimilar qualities, particularly of the Salix alba & S. pentandria 
both of which are recommended in the fo 
pharmacopoeias 
B 
opinion the bark of the S. triandria is more effectual than that 
of any other of this 
decided preference. 
s 
3 
at leaft its fenfible qualit 
it a 
H 
a See Gerhard, Mat. Med. p. 301. Phil. Tranfatt. vol. 53. p. 195. And Medical 
Comment, vol. 5. p. 298. Inftaiices of the efficacy of Willow bark are alfo related by 
Cloffius (nov. variol. Med., Meth. p. 128.J And Gunz. DiJJ\ bina de cortkefalicis. 
Lips. 1772. 
With Bergius however this bark did not fucceed. He fays, Ego hunc corticem is 
febribus intermittentibus itcrum iterumcuAe exhibui, fed irrito conatu. 
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