DIOECIA DIANDRIA. 595 



D 1 A N D R I A. 



SALIX. Gen.pl. 1098. 



MASC. Amenti fquams. Cor, o, Glandula bafeos 



nedlarifera. 

 FEM. Amenti fqnamae. Or, o. Styl 2-fidus. Caps. 

 i-locularis, 2-valvis. Sem pappofa. 

 * toliis glabris ferratis. 

 pnundra SALIX foliis ferratis glabris, flofculis pentandris. 

 1. Sp.-pl. 1442. {FUr. Lappon, 370, /. 8./|. Z. 



Cmelfib, I. />. 153. /. 34. /. i^ foliis nimis an- 

 gujiis,) 

 Sweet bay-leav'd Willow, 



In the Duke of ArgyUs, woods at Inverary^ and 

 about Rojlin, near Edinburgh., and by the road- 

 fides between Moffat and the Lead-hills plenti- 

 fully, &C. T? , VI. 

 This frequently grows to a tree ten or twelve feet 

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

 the twigs are of a reddifh colour, ting'd with 

 yellow : the leaves are fliff, oval-lanceolate, 

 ihining,fmooth on both fides, finely ferrated with 

 clofe numerous cartilaginous dents, when full 

 grown about three inches long, and one and a 

 half wide : their footftalks ihort, broad, and 

 fprinkled with glands : each fcale in the male cat- 

 kin has ufually five ftamna, but often Hx, and 

 fometimes fcvcn. Thefe catkins are very fweet- 

 fccnted. 



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