; = 
’ scales, Corolla. none, ‘Nectarkfeross glands at 
the base of thestamina. Stamina 1 to 6. Fam. | 
_ Flower as the male. Style bifid. Capsule 1-cell- 
ed, 2 2-valved. Seeds woolly. 
Large or small trees or shrubs, rarely suffruticose or 
subherbaceous; aments axillary and terminal. 
Species, 1.8. viminalis. Yntroduced. 2. candida. 3. 
Muhlenbergiana. 4. tristis, 5.recurvata, Pu. 6. repens. — 
Oe ee 7. reticulata, 8. vestita, Pu. 9. Uva ursi, Pu. 10. cor-— 
| ss difolia, Put. 11. obovata, Pu. Scarcely distinct from §. ves- 
___ #ita of the same, and both are probably varieties of S.are- 
_ paria? 12. planifolia. 13. pedicellaris. 14. rosmarinifolia. 
. 15. fuseata, Pu. 16. conifera. 17. myricoides. 18. disco- 
lor, also probably 8. princides, Pu? 19. longifolia. 8. an- 
_ ¥£ustata, Pu. The most abundant species on the lowest — 
eal formations of the Missouri and Missisippi, proba- 
‘ extending to the sources of those rivers. Oss. Leaves a 
the young plants, after the cotyledenes, subpinnatifid. - 
20. babylonica. (Weeping Willow.) Generally cultivated. 
21. nigra. v. v. On the banks of the Missouri and the 
Missisippi. 22. lucida, 23. rigida. (S. cordata, Mich. 
24. cordata. 25. grisea. 26. petiolaris. 27. a 
tellina. These 2 last cultivated, or in ed 
sinites. 30. herbacea. 
This genus containing probably more than 
is chiefly confined to the northern parts of Ew 
America; many of the species are alpine. O; 
cies are as yet described to be indigenous to the pikes 
hemisphere, namely 1 in Peru, (S$. Humboldtiana) 1 in 
India, and 2 species at the Cape of Good Hope with mu- _ 
cronate leaves. ar 
‘ret. FRAXINUS. LZ. (Ash.) 
oer none, or 4 Dacted, 
See 
Trees with opposite, unequ, 
- paniculate, arising from distinct buds produced in the ax- 
ills of preceding leaves? hermaphrodite and female flow- 
ers On distinct plants. ae 
Species. 1.F. sambucifolia. 2. quadran Bh 
Ash.) The chips communicating a pale b 
water in which they are steeped. . 
ae Sanat a ——— «6. platycarpa. ‘ 
St 
