59S DIOECIA DIANDRIA. 



This may be rank'd among the fmaller kinds of 

 willows, being feldom more than tight or tea 

 feet high. The bark, fo far as we have obferv'd, 

 is of a light green colour-, the twigs tough and 

 pliant ; the fcales of the gems reddifh ; the leaves 

 are about an inch and a half long, and i -3d of an 

 ii.ch wide j the lower ones are generally alter- 

 nate, the upper ones oppofite, or nearly fo, 

 fmooth on both fides, but often a little glaucous 

 underneath. Some of them are entire on the 

 edges throughout, but ufually the upper part is 

 ferrated, and the bafe entire. The figure of the 

 leaves is near to the linear-lanceolate, but fo that 

 their wideft diameter is above the middle part. 

 The catkins are three quarters of an inch long» 

 cylinrical, k{h\t, lateral, and fubtended by three 

 leaves. The fcales are concave, roundilh, black 

 and hairy ; thofe of the male catkins have each 

 but one JlamefK The mithera is quadrangular 

 before it burfts, and orange-colour'd ; the pow- 

 der yellow; the capfules covered wi^h a fatiu 

 down. 



purpurea 5 SALIX foliis fcrratis glabris lanceolatis inferioribus 

 oppofitis. Sp.pl. 1444. {Fig, nulla.) 

 Purple Willow. Angiis, 



On the banks of the EJk^ near Netherhy, in £/?•- 

 dak^ &c. b . V. 



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