Tia Dr. Smith's Remarks on 



in this genus peculiarly ample and inftru£live, and of comparing 

 them, through Her Majefty's gracious permiffion, with Mr. Light- 

 foot's Herbarium, by which mofl: of the doubtful fpecimens men- 

 tioned in his F/ora, p. 6ii, have been referred to fome fpecies or 

 other, and all his difficulties with regard to others removed. Laftly 

 the affiftance I have received from my accurate and indefatigable 

 friend Mr. Crowe, who for many years has with unwearied diligence 

 collected Willows, both indigenous and exotic, from all quarters; 

 carefully noting their peculiar ufcs and properties ; diftinguiiliing 

 the truly wild from the naturalized, or merely cultivated kinds ; and 

 watching them with a moft difcriminating eye through all their 

 ftages of growth in his garden, which is fortunately fituated fo as to 

 be peculiarly favourable for the purpofe. 



Linnaeus begins his arrangement of the Salices with thofe fpecies 

 which have fome peculiarity in their ftamina, and our Britifh writers 

 follow him in this diftribution. It is not my defign to difturb it. 

 All fuch as, inftead of the 2 diftin£l ftamina of Willows in general, 

 have their filaments united into one, or have more than 2 ftamina, 

 have fmooth ferrated leaves, and therefore Hand commodioufly 

 enough at the head of this firft fe6lion. 



The Salix hermaphrodit'ica I believe has no right to a place among 

 Brititli plants. Hudlon introduces it only with a mark of doubt. 

 The Sal'ix lai'ifoUa folio fplendente of Ray feems, by Dillenius's remark, 

 to be a variety of the Sallow. The real hermaphroditka of the Lin- 

 naean herbarium is clofely allied to S. pentandra, except in the fructi- 

 fication, and has never been deteded in Britain. All that I have 

 found in the gardens under that name is merely a broad-leaved va- 

 riety of S. pentandra, the flowers of which are pentandrous and 

 dioecious. The true hermapbroditlca has but 2 ftamina, and thofe in 

 the fame flower with the piflillum. I have never feen it alive, nor 

 do I believe it to be known out of Svseden, 



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