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ILLOW. Solus Babylonka. Class 22, 

 Dicecia. Order: Diandria. The botani- 

 cal name salix is derived from two Celtic 

 words, sal, near, and lis, water. The wil- 

 lows all bear catkins, or long bunches of 

 blossoms, some of which are very showy 

 and handsome and sweet-scented. The 

 willows are not a very ornamental tribe, but we are so accus- 

 tomed to see them growing in pleasant places, beside romantic 

 streams, that they become beautiful by association. 



FORSAKEN. 



The Watery Willow's spray, emboss'd 

 With oval knots of silken down ; 

 Which soon, in form of papal crown, 

 Shall decorate the russet stem 

 With many a golden diadem. 



Mant. 



Thus o'er our streams do eastern willows lean 

 In pensive guise; whose grief-inspiring shade, 

 Love has to melancholy sacred made. 



Delille. 



To the brook and the willow that heard him complain, 



Ah, willow ! willow ! 

 Poor Colin went weeping and told them his pain. 



Rowe. 



I offered him my company to a willow tree, to make him a 



garland, as being forsaken ; to bind him up a rod, as being worthy 



to be whipt. 



Shakspeare. 



In love the sad forsaken wight 

 The willow garland weareth. 



Drayton. 



