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kept low: the bark of the stem and branches 

 peels off spontaneously, almost like that of the 

 plane-tree: the branches are upright, lone, 

 slenJer, pliable and tough, though somewhat 



brittle'at their insertion; their bark is brownish 

 and smooth : their leaves abont three or four 

 inches long, tapering away towards the base, 

 and the breadth on each side the nerve is as 

 nearly equal as possible ; they terminate in a 

 point ; their margin is thickly serrate, tin- serra- 

 turcs incurved and rounded, a little glandular ; 

 both sides smooth, the under rather glaucous. 

 Mr. Curtis remarks that it is not usual for wil- 

 lows to flower both in spritm and autumn, but 

 he has frequently found this species to do so. It 

 is a native of many parts of Europe. 



It may be admitted into ornamental planta- 

 tions, the male catkins being very numerous, of 

 a bright yellow colour, and of an agreeable 

 scent : the male tree should on this account be 

 preferred for ornament ; and also because the fe- 

 males quickly shed their catkins and make a 

 litter. 



The second species is sufficiently well known 

 by its broad odoriferous leaves, the serratures of 

 which exude a copious yellow resin, and its nu- 

 merous stamens, commonly about five to each 

 flower. It frequently nrows to a tree ten or twelve 

 feet high, with a trunk as large as a man's thigh : 

 the twigs are of a reddish colour tinged with 

 yellow : the leaves are stiff, shininsr, smooth on 

 both sides, finely serrate with close numerous 

 cartilaginous teeth; when full grown they are 

 about three inches long, and an inch and half 

 vide: their footstalks are short, broad, and 

 sprinkled with glands : each scale in the male 

 catkin has usually live stamens, but often six, 

 and sometimes seven. These catkins are very 

 sweet-scented. It is a native of Britain, &:c. 



The third is a middle-sized tree, much 

 branched at the top : branches upright •: the 

 bark gray, chopped, cinnamon-coloured with- 

 in, bitterand astringent: the female trees, when 

 left to themselves, have pendent branches, but 

 w'.en hipped are stiff and straight : male cat- 

 kins at first upright, then turned down ; cylin- 

 drical, slender, serpentine, two inches long or 

 more; on fruitstalks half an inch lung : necta- 

 ries two : stamens two : female catkins from 

 two to three inches in length, on fruitstalks 

 from an inch to an inch and half Ions: the 

 leaves alternate, upright, slightly serrate, with 

 a yellowish midrib ; they are about three inches 

 long and one inch broad, but always broader in 

 the female tree : the male tree is generally 

 smaller and less common than the female. It 

 I native of the more temperate parts of 

 Europe. 



The shoots are used by hi4.et-nial.trs: the 

 wool! is white and very tough; the cotton will 

 make ordinary paper, and may jerve some "i 

 the purposes (.f genuine cotton: the ha;!. 

 be used in dyeing, and medicinally in agu< -. 



The fourth species never rises into a tree: the 

 bark is deciduous: the leaves are shorter tl an ill 

 the first sort, scarcely two inches long, oi i 

 brnadish ovate figure rounded at the base, by no 

 means linear; oblique, the width of tin 

 sides being unequal: the stipules are remarkably 

 large, varying from a roundish to a half-! 

 shaped form, crenate, deciduous: female flower- 

 and capsujes much as in that sort. It is a native 

 of sever J parts of Europe. 



The fifth is distinguished by its sessile ovate 

 smooth leave-, sharply and very finely but scarce 

 apparently serrate : audits subcordate stipules. 

 It becomes a tree, but never tall : the branches 

 are round, very Btraigfct, cinereous: the |i 

 hard, with very minute and scarcely visible ser- 

 ratures, cinereous beneath, but smooth on both 

 sides, rigid, appendicled with two ovate entire 

 leaflets. It is a native of Lapland, &c. 



The sixth species grows to be one of the larg- 

 est trees of the kind : the branches break off ea- 

 sily at the shoot of the preceding year: the leaves 

 are large, four inches long, an inch and half 

 broad, distinctly and deeply serrate, smooth and 

 shining on the upper side, glaucous underneath : 

 the stipules scarcely any, but instead of them 

 the footstalks are dotted with prominent trlands : 

 the catkins have two or three fugacious leaves at 

 the base of the peduncle. It is a native of the 

 greater part of Europe, especially the northern 

 parts, and is of quick growth, soon forming a 

 shade in wet places ; the males are fittest for this 

 purpose. Bees are fond of the male flowers. 



The seventh grows to a considerable size, as 

 four feet and a half in circumference at three feet 

 above the ground, and thirty feet in height. It 

 is generally esteemed for its long slender pen- 

 dulous branches, which give it a peculiar cha- 

 racter, and render it a beautiful object on the 

 margin of streams or pools : the leaves minutely 

 and sharply serrate, smooth on both sides, 

 cons underneath, with the midrib whitish; on 

 short petioles: the stipules, when present, 

 roundish or semilunar and very small ; but more 

 frequently wanting, and then in their stead a 

 glandular dot on each side: the catkins axillary, 

 small, oblong: in the male the filaments I 

 than the scale, with two ovate erect eland- 

 fastened to the base : the female, on two leaved 

 peduncles, scarcely longer than half an inch. It 

 is a native of the Levant. 



Tie' editor of Miller's Dictionary remarks that 

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