1-1(3 I!)/-. Smith's Rmai'h on 



This is cultivated in the fens, and preferred above all other Wil- 

 lows or Oficrs fur the fineft kinds of baiket work. Female plants 

 only have hitherto come under my infpe£lion, but, by a peculiar 

 inftance of good fortune, I laft fpring met with one or two male 

 flowers at the bafe of a few female catkins in Mr. Crowe's garden. 

 Thefe enabled me to complete my defcription, and at the fame time 

 removed every poffible doubt of our plant being the S. fja of Hoff- 

 mann, with every part of whofe excellent defcription it accords, 



4. Salix rubra. 



Green Ofier. 



S. monadelpha? foliis lineari-lanceolatis elongatis acutis denticulatis 



glabris : fubtus concoloribus. 

 Salix rubra. Hucif. 428. IVith. 49. 

 S. virefcens. Fi/lar's Dauph. v. 3, 785. t. S'^'f' 30* 

 S. minime fragilis, foliis longiffimis utrinque viridibus non ferratis. 



Raif Syn, 449. 

 S. nerii folio utrinque virente. FailL Par, 175. 



In falicetis rarius. Fl. Aprili, Maio. 



Between Maidenhead and Windfor, and near Sali{bury. y. She- 

 rard. In an ofier-holt near Ely. Rev, Dr. Goodenough. At Prick- 

 willow near Ely. Rev, Mr, Hemjied, Near Bedford. Rev, Mr. 



Abbot. 



The branches of this fhrub are very long, (lender, tough, fmooth, 

 gray or purplifh. Leaves about 4 inches long when full-grown» 

 Hnear-lanceolate, narrow, acute, flightly toothed or ferrated, by no 

 means entire, of a bright green on both fides, not at all glaucous, 

 fmooth in general, fometimes fprinkled with a few flender hair^ 

 beneath, Stipulae^ if prefent, linear-lanceolate, a little toothed ; 



but 



