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DIAN0RIA. MONOGYNIA. S&Kr, 43 



Female. Style cloven: Cap. 1 cell*, 2- 

 halves : Seeds dowrty. 



( l ) Leaves smooth, serrated. 



S. Leaves strap-spear-shaped: upper leaves oblique j eat- monan'dra. 



kins downy ; flowers with 1 stamen. 



Hoffm. sal. i. 1. and 5< \~Fuchs. 334-Ger. em. 138p. 2. 



A shrub, somewhat taller than a man. Branches rod-like, 

 exceedingly tough, in the spring deep purple, often of a blood 

 coral red without. 

 both above and beneath 

 leaves applied transversely to 

 neath the ends of the branches. 



Inner Bark of a brimstone colour. Leaf-buds 



the flower-buds, each containing 3 



the stem. Flawer-buds be- 



C at kins cylindrical, with 2 



leaves. Scales brown, hairy. Linn. 

 coloured, with transverse cracks. 



Main stem smooth, ash- 



Branches shining as if var- 

 nished, with grey or crimson spots here and there. Male catkin 

 downy, cylindrical, blunt, at first pointing horizontally, then 

 downwards; on very short fruit-stalks. Female catkin smaller 

 than the male, about 1 inch long. Leaves egg or strap- spear- 

 shaped, narrower, and very entire at the base, broader and ser- 

 rated upwards ; smooth and fine green, underneath glaucous, 

 often cottony, but this is not permanent, Hoffman. 



Rose Willow. Purple Willow, Salix purpurea. LlNN. 



Salix Helix. Linn. — Hedges, watery places, and sides of rivers, 

 osier beds. [Thorpe meadows near Norwich. Mr. Crowe.] 



S. April, May.* 





S. Leaves oblong-spar-shaped : flowers with 3 stamens, trian'dra. 



Linn, sometimes 2. Huds. 



Hoff. sal. i. y. and 10 ; Foliage 23. 2-GmeL 1 . 34. 3; 



Six feet high, or more ; but seldom assuming the appearance 



Bark smooth ; yellow green or greenish ; branching 



of a tree* 

 from 



every part. Branches upright, the upper ones shortest, 

 often spotted with red. Male catkins conical, changing to cy- 

 lindrical, upright, 1 inch long, l£ inch when old. Fruit-stalk 

 | inch long. Nectaries i 2. Fern, catkin slender, upright, 1 or 



•haped, 



If inch long. Fruit-stalk 1 inch long. Leaves egg-spear- 

 tapering to a point ; lower ones egg-shaped, large, 

 ickish, dark green above, paler underneath, serrated. Hoffm. 

 Leaves 1 to 3 inches long ; on leaf-stalks. Huds. — The male 





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Wood. 



Mr 



* Baskets, cradles, and all sorts of twig- work, are made of its long, 

 slender, and flexible shoots, — The ends oi the branches often produii 

 rose-like excrescence*, which are, caused by an insect, Horr. 



