4<5 DIANDRTA. MONOGYNIA. Salix. 



Var. 1. Ray mentions a variety which casts its bark* Miller 1 

 thinks this a distinct species, and gives for a character ; c< Leaves 

 serrated, smooth, spear-shaped, all alternate ;" but he has not J 



described the flowers. 



Smooth Willow. Woods, hedges and banks of rivers. [About 

 Leeds. Mr. Wood. — Lakenhara near Norwich, Mr. Crowe.] 



S. or T. April.* 



pentan'dra. S. Leaves egg-shaped, acute: flowers with 5 stamens. 



Dicks, h. s.~Gmel. i. 34. l-FL lapp. 8. %. a leaf only. 



From 6 to 10 feet high. Branches yellowish purple. Buds 

 consisting of 2 opposite valves, sending out both catkins and 

 leaves. Leaves yellowish green ; the teeth at the edges pour 

 out a yellow gum, so that put fresh into a book and compressed, 

 there remain as many yellow dots on the paper as there are teeth 

 in the leaf. Catkins very yellow. Linn. — Sweet scented. 

 Lichtf. — Leaves glossy, in hot weather exhaling an odoriferous 

 perfume. Curt. — Catkins terminating the new shoot of the year, 

 and not appearing until May. Mr. Stackhouse. — Nectaries 3, 

 yellowish brown, 2 next the spike-stalk, and the 3d next the 

 scale. St. — Small branches alternate. Leaves egg-spear-shaped ; 

 1 1 on the barren and 6 or 8 on the fertile shoots ; the 2 lower 

 leaves comparatively small and inversely egg-shaped. Nectaries 

 often wanting in the flowers in the extremity of the catkin, in 

 room of which there are 3 additional, perfect stamens. Common 

 about Kendal. Mr. Gough. — Sometimes grows to the size of a 

 tree, 12 feet high or more. 



Sweet Willow. Bay-leaved Willow. S. pentandra. Fl. 

 Lappon. S. hermaphroditica. Linn. Sp. pi. It yet remains 

 to be determined whether the S. pentandra /3 of Fl. suec. be a 

 native of this country. — Woods and hedges. In the North of 

 England, and Coomb Wood, Surry. — About Kilnsay and Carr 

 End Wensledale, where it is the most common species. Curt. — 

 [Near Bungay, Suffolk, frequent. Mr. Woodward.— On the 



side of a wet ditch, on the outside of some gardens without the 







East gate, Stafford. St. — Plantations at Mr. Boulton's, Soho.] 



S. ApriLt 



vitelli / na. S. Leaves egg-spear-shaped, acute, smooth above ; serra- 



tures like oristh* 



* The bark in doses of i or % drams will cure agues. Med. Comm. v. 

 298. 



t The wood crackles greatly in the fire,-±The branches arc cut to 

 make springles.— Sheep and goats eat it.— The leaves dried afford a yel- 

 low die. Linn. St. — Much used in Yorkshire for making the larger sort 

 ©f baskets. Curt. 



