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WISTERIA. 416 WOOD LOUSE. 
lows which include all the trees, Society’s Garden had more than 
and generally all that have smooth | nine thousand»racemes, containing * 
shining leaves; the Osiers, which | in all about 675,000 sagiyste flow-— 
are the shrubby species with long|ers. W. frutéscens : 
pliant shoots; and the Sallows, | smaller plant, with closer re 
which have thick shaggy leaves. | of flowers, which are small anc 
The wood of the tree kinds is white,| a dark purple. It is a native of 
ad being very soft and elastic, it| North America. Both plants re- 
used for making bats for cricket- | quire a rich soil, and to be frequent- 
players, wooden mallets, and other | ly wateréd in dry weather. 
purposes, where wood is required | Wrren Hazer.—See Hama’me- 
that will bear a heavy blow without | is. 
splitting ; the QOsiers are used for) Wirny.—Those kinds of shrubby 
‘basket-work ; and the withies,| willow which have long flexible 
which are < diminutive kind of | shoots. 
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Osier, for tying up bundles. All| Woap.—See Isa‘rs. 
the Yvillows grow best in moist} Wotr’s Bane.—See Aconr‘toum. 
me~cay land, and they are all props W oopBinE.—See Capriro‘Lium. 
agated by cuttings, which strike| Wooproor.—See Aspr’RULA. 
w:.i the greatest facility. Woop Louse.—Oniscus aséllus. 
» © Wrnow-ners. —See Errzo‘z1um. | —These creatures are exceedingly 
a. WiLLow-o0aK.— Quércus Phélilogs. | destructive, particularly tosucculent 
~ —An American Oak, with very| plants and dahlias. They belong 
narrow Willow-like leaves. to the Crustacea, and possess the 
Wincep Pea—Ldathyrus aldtus.| power, when alarmed, of curling 
—See La'tuyrrus. themselves up like a hedgehog, so 
Winter Aconire.—See Enra’n- | as to resemble a hittle ball-like shell. 
THUS. They are fond of creeping into any 
Winter Berry.—See Pai'nos. |idark places, and are frequently 
Winter Cuerry.—See Puysa‘-| caught by laying some flower-pots 
ans LIS, sideways with hay in them, near the 
Winter Cress—Barbdrea vul-| plants which have been attacked. 
garis—A cruciferous plant, with | They will also creep into reeds, or 
handsome yellow flowers. A dou-| the hoilow stalks of rhubarb, and 
ble-flowered variety of the common | all these traps are used to prevent 
winter cress is called the yellow | their ravages on,dahhas. Very fre- 
rocket. quently small flower-pots may be 
- Winter Green.—See Py'rona, 4 seen inverted on the stakes which 
Wisteria. Legumindse. — |} support dahlias, solely to serve as a 
Climbing shrubs, with drooping ra- | trap for these creatures. Woodlice 
cemes of beautiful purple cr hlaeh} were formerly supposed to be useful 
fragrant flowers, which in shape | in medicine, but like many remedies 
greatly resemble those of the labur- | that were formerly popular, they are 
num. ‘The commonest kinds are| now no longer esteemed. When 
W. sinénsis, and W. frutéscens, | young they are white, and in this 
du but some other species have been|state they are frequently found in 
lately introduced by Dr. Siebo eat numbers in the ant-hills, living’ « 
from Japan. For some particulars | with the ants in perfeet harmony ; 4 
respecting W. sinénsis, see Guy-| they are then very small, and if ex- 
cinE ; and to this may be added | amined closely, they will be found 
that, in the summer of 1840, the | to have one segment of the body and 
plant in the London Horticultural | one pair of legs less, than when full- 
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