ISS DIOECIA— DIANDllIA. Sulix. 



nate, almost sessile, solitary, dense, slender, each accompanied 

 by two little, lanceolate, acute leaves j their form exactly cylin- 

 drical, bluntish ; their length about an inch. Scales obovate, 

 hairy, black in their upper half. Nect. a single gland opposite 

 to each scale. Fdumcni alwaj'S solitary, simple, smooth, twice 

 the length of the scale. Anther tawny, of 4 lobes, and as many 

 cells. Germ, sessile, small, broadly elliptical, silky, rather 

 longer than its scale, which is shorter than that of the barren 

 floret. Style scarcely any till after flowering, when it is slightly 

 "protruded. Stigmas ovale, thick, obtuse, permanent. Capsules 

 hoary, densely downy. 

 A very valuable' osier for fine basket-work, but more especially 

 for platting into low close fences, to keep out hares and rabbits, 

 the leaves and bark being so intensely bitter, that those animals 

 will not touch either. The twigs moreover are so long, tough 

 and flexible, that they may be interwoven into any shape, and 

 kept very close to the ground, as they always retain their hori- 

 zontal mode of growth. Such a fence is scarcely inferior to one 

 made of wire, and is perhaps more durable, as continually pro- 

 ducing young shoots, to supply the place of tliose tliat decay. 

 It is important therefore to distinguish this useful and elegant 

 Willow from the following. Ehrhart seems to have led Hoffmann 

 into the great mistake of uniting them, telling him that the vio- 

 nandra of Ilofl'mann, our llelix, was the only one in the Upsal 

 garden. Fortunately I have from thence the real purpurea so 

 named, in the herbarium of Linnaeus, who esteemed it much, 

 and has celebrated its merits in the works above quoted. Ehr- 

 hart's own specimen from Hanover is the same ; and he was so 

 excellent an observer, that 1 cannot but think he never saw the 

 Helix J nor Hoflmann perhaps the purpurea. 



22. S. Helix. Rose Willow. 



Branches erect. Leaves partly opposite, oblong-Ianceolute, 

 ])ointed, slightly serrated, very smooth ; linear towards 

 the base. Stamen one. Style nearly as long as the 

 linear divided stigmas. 



S. Helix. Linn. Sp. PL 1444. Wilht. v. 4. 672. Fl. Dr. 1040. 



Engl. Bot.v. 19. t. 1343. Tr. of L. Sue. v. 0. 1 14. 

 S. monandra. H(>fm. Sal. v. \. IS.t. l.f. ]. t.23.f.\.t. l./.2,3, 



also t. 5./. 1, doubtful. Fillurs Dauph.v. 3.767. Curt. Lond. 

 fuse. 6. t. 7\ ; except f. 5. 

 S. n. 1640. Flail. Hist.v.2.30G; excluding the sijn. of Arduuio. 

 S. humilior, foliis angusti.s subcaeruleis, ex adverso binis. Raii 



Sijn. 448. 

 S. humilior, foliis angustis subcaeruleis, ut pkuimum sibi invicem 



oppositis. Raii Cant. 144. 

 S. hclice Theophiusti. Dalcch. Hist. 277. f 



