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James's Chronicle, there is the following para- 

 graph, but on what authority he is not ac- 

 quainted : — " The famous and admired weep- 

 ing willow, planted by Pope, which has lately 

 been felled to the ground, came from Spain, 

 inclosing a present to the late Lady Suffolk. 

 Mr. Pope was in company when the covering 

 was taken off; he observed that the pieces of 

 stick appeared as if they had some vegetation, 

 and added, Perhaps they may produce something 

 wc have not in England/ Under this idea he 

 planted it in his garden, and it produced the 

 willow tree that has given birth to so many 

 others." 



The eighth species is a bushy shrub three or 

 four feet high, with long slender tough purple 

 shining branches: the leaves some opposite, 

 others alternate, nearly linear, but broadest up- 

 wards, serrate chiefly towards the summit, very 

 smooth, glaucous beneath, destitute of stipules: 

 the male catkins are very slender, scarcely an 

 inch long, nearly sessile, consisting of many 

 thick-set flowers, the uppermost of which expand 

 first : the scales black at the tip, hairy : nectary 

 a solitary gland opposite to each scale : the sta- 

 men one solitary simple, never dividing, bear- 

 ing an orange-coloured double or four-lobed an- 

 ther : the female catkins exactly like the male 

 in size and form. It is particularly distinguish- 

 ed by the length as well as delicate slenderness 

 of its twigs, and its subglaucous spurge-like 

 leaves, but above all by their extreme bitter- 

 ness when chewed. It is a native of many parts 

 of Europe. 



The ninth rises to the height of nine or ten 

 feet, and is a small slender tree : in the form of 

 its leaves it differs from the eighth, being more 

 truly lanceolate and taper-pointed, by no means 

 obovate : the female catkins are somewhat 

 longer, and twice as thick, and stand on longer 

 stalks : the germ is sessile, ovate and silky ; but 

 the style is considerably lengthened out, quite 

 smooth and naked : the stigmas also, instead of 

 being short and ovate, are linear and considera- 

 bly elongated : the leaves are less glaucous be- 

 neath and not so bitter : the rose-like excrescen- 

 cies are more common at the ends of the branch- 

 es in it ; whence its name of Rose-Willow. It 

 is a native of many parts of Europe. 



The tenth species is a shrub four or five feet 

 nigh, with upright flexible and very tough 

 branches, of a yellowish ash-colour, often pur- 

 plish : the leaves alternate, on footstalks, two or 

 three inches long, minutely toothed or some- 

 what serrate, principally towards the top; smooth 

 on both sides except when very young; dark 

 green above, glaucous beneath. : the stipules 

 none : the catkins on short stalks, cylindrical. 



blunt, first red, then yellow, flowering first at 

 the top. It is a native of some parts of Europe 

 on the sandy banks of rivers, flowering in 

 April. 



With us it is cultivated in the fens, and pre- 

 ferred to all other willows or osiers for basket- 

 work. 



The eleventh is a shrub which has the branches 

 very long, slender, tough, smooth, gray or pur- 

 plish : the leaves about four inches long when 

 full grown, slightly toothed or serrate, by no 

 means entire, of a bright green on both sides, 

 smooth in general, but sometimes sprinkled with 

 a few slender hairs beneath : the stipules, if 

 present, linear-lanceolate, a little toothed ; but 

 generally wanting. It appears to be little known, 

 though amongst the most valuable as an osier. 

 It is a native of this country, &c. 



The twelfth species often becomes a large 

 tree : the branches when young palish, downy : 

 the leaves slightly tapering to a point at both 

 ends, above green and scarce sensibly downy, 

 underneath pale green with a very thin woolli- 

 ness : edge marked with some notches which 

 are scarcely apparent unless carefully examined, 

 but from the middle downwards evidently waved : 

 the lower buds produce leaves, the upper ones 

 catkins not leafy. It is useful for bees, as flow- 

 ering early. 



The thirteenth is more than six and sometimes 

 near twelve feet high ; in exposed boggy grounds 

 spreading more, but not rising so high : the 

 leaves alternate, rude, rugged, wrinkled and 

 green above, beneath rough with hairs, the veins- 

 indistinct, the edge serrate, on loose petioles two 

 lines in length : stipules in shape of half a heart, 

 on each side serrate with three glands : the cat- 

 kins brownish, placed below the leaves, on a 

 peduncle with a few small spear shaped leaflets. 

 It is the common Sallow, and a native of Eu- 

 rope, flowering in April. 



The fourteenth species, when suffered to grow 

 without lopping, becomes a large and lofty tree :; 

 it is of quick growth, but when lopped soon de- 

 cays : the trunk is straight with a gray roifgh, 

 bark full of cracks : the branches numerous, up- 

 right, but diffused, gray or brownish green, the 

 upper ones often dusky red : the inner bark is 

 green : the leaves sharply and elegantly serrate ; 

 shining but pubescent above, white and silky 

 underneath: the male catkins cylindrical, blunt,. 

 from an inch and half to two inches in length,, 

 four lines in breadth, on peduncles half an inch 

 long: the stamens two : the nectaries two, one 

 before the stamens obcordate, the other behind 

 them oblong : the female catkins slender, cylin- 

 drical, two inches long, three or four line* 

 broad, on peduncles near an inch in length. It 



