fame Britijh Species of S/^/'x. II3 



The firft fpecies on our lift of Britifti Willows is the 

 I. Sal IX purpurea. 

 Bitter Purple Willow. 



S. monandra, foliis obovato-Ianceolatis ferratis glabris, ftigmatlbus 



breviflimis ovatis fubfeffilibus. 

 Salix purpurea, Linn. Sp. PI. 1444. Hudf. 417. 

 S. monandra. With. 45. Curt. Lond.fafc. 6. t. 71. Hoffm. Sat. 



V. I. 18. /. I. /. I, 2. t. 5. /. I. /. 23. /. I. 

 S. humilior, foliis anguftis fubcaeruleis, ex adverfo binis. Rait Syn. 



448. Cant. 144. n. 5, 



In paluftribus, et ad fluvios. FI. Martio; 



This is a bufliy (hrub, three or four feet high, with long, flender, 

 tough, purple, fhining branches. The leaves are either oppofite or 

 alternate, nearly linear, but broadefl; upwards, ferrated chiefly 

 towards the fummit, very fmooth, glaucous beneath, deftitute of 

 ftipulse. The male catkins are very flender, fcarcely an inch long, 

 nearly feflile, confiding of many thick-fet flowers, the uppermoft of 

 which expand firft. Scales black at the tip, hairy. Nsclary a foH- 

 tary gland oppofite to each fcale. Stamen one folitary fimple fila- 

 ment, never dividing, bearing an orange-coloured double, or four- 

 lobed, anthera. Female catkins exadlly like the male in fize and 

 form. Germen feflile, fmall, of an ovate or rather elliptic form, 

 filky. Style very fliort, or fcarcely any. Stigmas fmall, feflile, 

 fomewhat ovate, undivided, marked with a longitudinal furrow on 

 the upper fide. Capfule ovate, fmall, filky. 



The leaves and twigs of this fpecie« are extremely bitter, and 

 therefore authorize the Englifli name given by Mr. Curtis, who bar. 



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