J, 5 Dr. Smith's Remarks on 



This is cultivated in tlie fens, and preferred above all other Wil- 

 lows or Oficrs for the fineft kinds of baflcet work. Female plants 

 only have hitherto come under my infpedion, but, by a peculiar 

 inftance of good fortune, I laft fpring met with one or two male 

 flowers at the bafe of a few female catkins in Mr. Crowe's garden. 

 Thefe enabled me to complete ray defcription, and at the fame time 

 removed every poffible doubt of our plant being the S. fja of Hoff- 

 mann, with every part of whofe excellent defcription it accords, 



4. Salix rubra. 



Creen OJter. 



S. mpnadelpha? foliis Hneari-lanceolatis elongatis acutis denticulatis 



glabris : fubtus concoloribus. 

 Salix rubra. Hudf. 42S. With. 49. 

 S. virefcens. Fillars Dauph. v. 3. 785. /. 51./ 30. 

 S. minime fragilis, foliis longiffimis utrinque viridibus non ierratis. 



RciiiSyn. 449. 

 S. nerii folio utrinque virente. Faill. Par. 175. 



In falicetis rarius. Fl. Aprili, Maio. 



Between Maidenhead and Windfor, and near Salifbury. J. She- 

 rard. In an ofier-holt near Ely. Rev. Dr. Goodemugh, At Prick- 

 willow near Ely. Rev. Mr. Hemjled. Near Bedford. Rev, Mr, 

 jibbot. 



The branches of this fhrub are very long, flender, tough, fmooth, 

 crray or purpliili. Leaves about 4 inches long when full-grown, 

 linear-lanceolate, narrow, acute, flightly toothed or ferrated, by no 

 means entire, of a bright green on both fides, not at all glaucous, 

 fraooth in general, fometimes fprinkled with a few flender hairs 

 beneath. Stipulje, if prefent, linear-lanceolate, a little toothed ; 



but 



