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made of the decoflion of ir, proved very bene- 

 ficial to children troubled with rickets. 



The inner bark has afforded a miferable fubfliitute 

 for bread to the neceiiitous inhabitants of Camt- 

 Jcbatka. 



The wood is ufed to make poles, flakes, hoops for 

 caiks, &c. and for fuel. 



Cattle will feed on the leaves; and tv,t Arabs diflil 

 their celebrated Calaf water from the catkins of 

 the S. agyptiaca Lin, or any other fpecies that 

 has fragrant catkins. This water they ulcr as a 

 cooling liquor, or as a febrifuge. 



in the Summer feafon the leaves have been obferv'd 

 to diflil a clear liquor, which Scopoli afErms to be 

 owing to the liquefaftion of the fpume which 

 envelops an infed called Cicada f-pumaria. Scop. 

 Entomolog. 331. & Fior. Carniol. 121 2. 



Ohf. I have received from my often-mentioned 

 friend, the Rev. Mr. Stuart^ junior, oiKillin, in 

 Breadalbane^ fome fpecimens of other Caledonian 

 willows ; but for want of obferving them in 

 their different fl ages of growth, they were found 

 too infufticient to determine the fpecies in fo dif- 

 ficult and vague a genus. 



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