8 ORD. I. Amentacez. SALIX CAPREA. 
seurely toothed. The male catkin is pale, cylindrical, one or two inches 
long, and one broad, with ovate, downy scales; stamens two, filiform and 
smooth ; nectary composed of two yellow, glandular scales, the larger being 
between the stamen and the receptacle, and the smaller between the stamen 
and the scale. The female catkins oblong or cylindrical, on foot-stalks, 
which have six or seven scales; the germen ovate, supporting two bifid, 
erect stigmas; the capsule is ovate, and contains many small seeds. Figure 
(a) female flowers, (4) the same magnified, (c) the germen, (d) stigmas, (e) gland, 
_(f) male flower, (g) the same magnified, (h) gland, (é) stamens. 
The bark* of this speceies has not been chemically examined; its sensible 
qualities being however the same as the white willow, it probably contains 
similar constituent principles. As a remedial agent, it has been given with 
success, as a substitute for the cinchona bark, in the same diseases and under 
similar circumstances, in which the bark of the white willow has been ad- 
ministered; but the comparative powers of the two have not been defined. 
It certainly would be of some importance to ascertain, by a series of experi- 
ments, which of the species of willow might be administered with the greatest 
advantage. At present the shops are supplied from a variety of different 
species. : 
* The wood and branches of this species of willow are manufactured into a variety of 
useful articles: the bark has been used for tanning leather; bees extract much honey 
from its catkins; goats are said to be particularly fond of the foliage and young shoots. 
SALIX ALBA. COMMON WHITE WILLOW. 
SYNONYMA. Salix. Lob. Ic. 2. p.136. Salix vulgaris alba arborescens. 
C. Bauh. Pin. 473. Dill. App. p. 42. Salix maxima fragilis alba hirsuta. 
J. Bauh. Hist. p. 212. Salix arborea angusti folia vulgalis. Rai Hist. n. 
1419. Salix alba. Lin. Sp. Pl. p. 1449. Fl. Suec. 2. n. 903. Hort. Cliff. 
473. Hud. fl. Angl. Ed. 2. p. 430. Light. Fl. Scot. p. 609. Hoff. Sal. i. 7 
& 8. Willd. Sp. Pl.v. 4. p. 710. With. Arrang. ii. p. 76. Smith, Fl. Brit.. 
p- 1071. Engl. Bot. t. 2430. Hook. Scot. 1. p. 287. Smith, Engl. Fl. v. 4. 
p. 231. Salict. Wob. p. 271. t. 136. Hook. Brit. Fl. p. 418. 
