DIOFXIA— DIANDRIA. Salix. 2^7 



spades, &c, and for the cutting-boards of shoemakers. This 

 bark has been found no bad substitute for the Cinchona in agues. 

 The wood and branches make the best hurdles, being tough, 

 flexible and durable. 'I'heir superior qualities first led Mr. 

 Crowe to investigate the different sorts of Sallows and Willows, 

 several totally worthless ones, like Salix bicolor, having been 

 cut for use, by his labourers, indiscriminately with the present 

 valuable species. The plentiful honey of the catkins attracts 

 bees in the spring. Their yellow colour, and the brilliancy of 

 their opening buds, enliven the country, before any other blos- 

 soms appear. 



60. S. acuininata. Long-leaved Sallow. 



Stem erect. Leaves lanceolate-oblong, pointed, wavy, 

 finely toothed ; glaucous and downy beneath. Stipulas 

 half-ovate ; then kidney-shaped. Catkins cylindrical. 

 Germen stalked, ovate, hairy. Style as long as the 

 undivided stigmas. 



S. acuminata. Fl. Br. 1068 ; omitting the references to Miller and 

 Hoffmann. Engl. Bot. r.20. t. 1434. Hees's Cycl. n. 129. IVilld. 

 Sp. PI. V. 4. 704. Hook. Scot. 286. Forst. Tonbr. 111. 



S. caprea -, a singular variety. Lighff. 60S. 



S. caprea acuto longoque folio. Raii Syn. 4!)0. 



S. caprea latifolia. Ger. Em. 1390./. leaves. 



In rather moist woods and hedges frequent. 



Tree. Jpril. 



Generally of more humble growth than the foregoing, though some- 

 times becoming a lofty tree, with upright, or less s))reading, 

 branches, which arc always minutely downy, very soft to the 

 touch. Leaves of a totally different shape, commonly 3 or 4 

 inches long, and 1 , at least, in breadth, elli})tic-lanceolate, 

 tapering to an acute point, either flat, or somewhat rugged,, 

 with copious, though shallow and unequal, marginal notches; 

 the upper side green and smooth, except the midrib ; under 

 paler, and in a young state glaucous, delicately soft and downy, 

 with a prominent reddish midrib and veins. Footstalks reddish 

 and downy, stout, measuring full half an inch. Stipulas half- 

 ovate, or half-heartshapcd, acute, toothed, ribbed ; glaucous 

 at the back ; subsequently curved, so as to become kidney- 

 shaped. Fertile catkins cylindrical, above an inch long, some- 

 what stalked, with numerous, large, ovate-lanceolate, acute 

 bracteas, clothed with somewhat silky down, but not silvery 

 like those of S. caprea. Scales obovale, partly black, bearded 

 with long hairs J the lower onef? acute. A^ec/. oblong, abrupt, 

 flattibh. Germ, ovate, densely hairy or silky, on a hairy bUlk, 

 not above half as long as the adjoining sc.ile. Style, when full 

 grown, equal in length to the thick undivided stigmas. 



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