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being made into hoops, baskets and crates; the bark is used 
by the tanner, and that of the Salix Russelliana, instead of 
Peruvian bark, as a medicine. The species rubra and vimi- 
nalis, are used the most by basket-makers, and S. fragilis, 
for fences. The species, called Palm in England, is the 
Salix caprea, and was the one formerly used to deck churches 
and houses in the week succeeding Palm Sunday. Why 
this tree was selected is not known, as it is unlike the 
Oriental Palm, used on the occasion of Christ’s entry into 
Jerusalem. 
The Satie Babylonica is the elegant Weeping Willow. 
It is not indigenous in this country. 
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Dia@cra. TRIANDRIA. 
PETALOIDES. LILIACEa. 
RUSCUS. (Box Hotty.) 
Generic Character. The barren flower is composed of six egg- 
shaped spreading leaves, three alternate smaller. Filaments 
united into a tube, the three anthers at the top. Perfect flower, 
the same as the above, but containing the pistil, which protrudes 
through a tubular nectary. Berry globular, three-celled. 
Ruscus acurzatus (Plate III. Fig. 12). Bow holly, or 
