11-2 7^r. Smithes Rcmarh gh 



in this genus peculiarly ample and inftru^live, and of comparing 

 them, through Her Majefty's gracious permiflion, with Mr. Light-* 

 foot's Herbarium, by which mofl: of the doubtful fpecimens men- 

 tioned in his Flora^ p. 6ii, have been referred to fome fpecies or 

 other, and all his difficulties with regard to others removed. Laftly 

 the afliflance 1 have received from mv accurate and in def a titrable 

 friend Mr. Crowe, who for many years has with unwearied diligence 

 collefled Willows, both indigenous and exotic, from all quarters; 

 carefully noting their peculiar ufes and properties ; diftinguilhing 

 the truly wild from the naturalized, or merely cultivated kinds ; and 

 watching them with a mofl: difcriminating eye through all their 

 ftages of growth in his garden, which is fortunately fituated fo as to- 

 be peculiarly favourable for the purpofe. 



Linnaeus begins his arrangement of the Sallces with thofe fpecies 

 which have fome peculiarity in their (lamina, and our Britilh writers 

 follow him in this diftribution. It is not my defign to diflurb it. 

 All fuch as, indead of the 2 difl:in6l fl-amina of Willows in general, 

 have their filaments united into one, or have more than 2 ftamina, 

 have fmooth fcrrated leaves, and therefore (land commodioufly 

 enough at the head of this firfl: feclion, ' 



The SaVix hermaphroditic a I believe has no right to a plnce among 

 Britilh plants. Hudfon introduces it only with a mark of doubt. 

 The SaUx latifoUa folio fpkndente of Ray leems, by Dillenius's remark, 

 to be a variety of the Sallow. The real hermaphrodhka of the Lin- 

 nsean herbarium is clofely allied ^o S,pentandra^ except in the frudii- 

 fication, and h.as never been deteded in Britain. All that I have 

 found in the G;ardens under that name is merelv a broad-leaved va- 

 riety of iL pentandra^ the flowers of which are penlandrous and 

 dioecious. The true hcnnaphroditka has but 2 (lamina, and thofe in 

 the fame floiver with the piftillum. I have never feen it alive, nor 

 do 1 believe it to be known out of Sweden. 



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