fomc Briti/Jj Species of SciUx, i if) 



right, long, flenHer, pliable and tongh, though fomcwhat brittle at 

 their infertion ; their bark is brownilh and linooth. Leaves about 

 3 or 4 inches long, of a linear oblong figure, tapering away towards 

 the bafe, and their breadth on each fide the nerve is as nearly ccjual 

 as poihble ; they terminate in a point; their margin is thickly fer- 

 rated, the ferraturcs incurved and roundctl, a little glandular; both 

 fides fmooth, the under rather glaucous. Stipulx ovate, oblique, 

 crenate, veiny, fmooth, often wanting. Catkins at the ends of fmall 

 leafy young branches, erccf, flender, yellowifh, with blunt downy 

 fcaks. Stamina generally 3 to each fcale, very rarely (in the fame 

 catkin) only 2. Gcrmen flalkcd, ovate, pointed, warty. Stigmas 

 fhort, fpreading, notched. Capfule very fmooth, green. 



7, Salix amyg(idl1ha. 



Broad-leaved Triandrous JVillow. 



S. triandra, foliis ovatis obliquis ferratis glabris, germinibus pcdi- 



cellatis, fiipulis maximis. 

 Salix amygdalina. L.'inn» Sp, PL T443. Hudf. 426. Ligbtf, 596. 

 S. folio auricuiato fplendente fiexilis. Raii Syn. 448. Cant. 144. 



In fallcetis et paluftribus. Fl. Aprili, Maio. 



On Bad ley moor by Dereham, Norfolk. Mr. Crowe, 



Mod botanilts confound this with the preceding, and I fliould 

 fcarcely have efcaped the fame error but for the obfervations of Mr. 

 Crowe, who was led to invelfigate their botanical diflindlions by the 

 different qualities of the two plants for occonomical purpofes. This 

 is but rarely preferved in ofier grounds, being a bad Oficr, greatly 

 inferior to the true S, triandra. It never rifes into a tree. The bark 

 indeed is deciduous, as in the preceding, which added to the tri- 

 androus flowers, perhaps led Mr. Curtis and others .to fufpe<5l there 



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