goi DIOECIA DIANDRIA. 



There is a fingular variety of this, with narrower 

 elliptic leaves, about two inches and a half 

 long, and three quarters of an inch wide, hav- 

 ing large femicircular ferrated/z>«'^ at the bafe 

 of their footftalks. Thefe leaves are ferratcd on 

 the edges, and downy underneath like the above. 

 It feems to be a kind of hybridous fhrub, be- 

 tween the S. caprea and S. aurita. We imagine 

 it to be the S. caprea var. y. Lin. Sp. 1448. 



The inhabitants of the Highlands and Hebrides 

 frequently ufe the bark of thefe to tan their 

 leather. The wood is fmooth, foft^ white and 

 flexible. It is often ufed to make handles for 

 hatchets, prongs, fpades, &c. and to furnifh 

 (hoemakers with cutting-boards and whctting- 

 boards, to fmoorh the edges of their knives up- 

 on. The caterpillars of numerous FhaUnce, and 

 other infe<5ts, feed upc n the leaves of this and 

 other fpecies of the genus. 



"jtmiiicJisi^ SALIX foliis fubintegerrimis lanccolato-linearibus 

 longiflimis acutis fubtus fericcis, ramis virgatis. 

 Sp. pL 1448. {Fig. nulla.) 



The Ofier. Aiglis. 



In moid grounds, efpecially near villages, frequent. 

 T. . V. 



This flirub grows to be ten or twelve feet high, 

 and is very quick in growth. The twigs are 

 long, (lender, and pliant ; the leaves three, and 



fometi nies, 



