LXVIII. SALICA'CE.E : SA LIX. 



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Wob.') A handsome low-growing tree, with the branches of the preceding 

 year of a greyish green colour and smooth, and the young twigs of a 

 yellowish green, somewhat striated or angular at the points. Switzerland, 

 and, perhaps, North America. Introduced in 1812. Height 20ft. to 30ft. 

 Flowers yellow ; April and May. 



Group v. Fragiles Borrer. 

 Trees, with their Twigs mostly brittle at the Joints. Prin. sp. 19. 22. and 24. 



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Stamens 2 to a flower. Ovary glabrous, elongated, seated upon a more or 

 less obvious stalk. Flowers very loosely disposed in the catkin. Leaves 

 lanceolate, serrated, glabrous, stipuled. The plants, trees of considerable 

 size. (Hook. Br. Ft., ed. 2., adapted.) 



19. S. BABYLO'NICA. The Babylonian, or weeping, Willow. 



Identification. Lin. Sp. PI., 1443 ; Smith in Rees's Cyclo., No. 42. ; Koch Comm., p. 17. 

 Synonymes. S. propendens . Sering. Sal. Hel. p. 73. ; S. orientalis, &c., Tourn. ; S. ar&bica, &c., C. 



Bauh. ; Saule pleureur, Parasol du grand Seigneur, Fr. ; Trauer Weide, Thranen Weide, Ger. 

 The Sexes. The female is figured in Sal. Wob. ; the male is not known, in a living state, in Britain ; 



the plates of this tree in Arb. Brit., 1st 



unless it be S. b. Napole&na, as suggested in p. 758. 

 Engravings. Rauw. It, 25. 183. ; our fig. 22. in p. 795. ; 

 edit., vol. vii. ; and our Jig. 1441. 



1441. S. babyldnica. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, finely serrated, glabrous , 

 glaucous beneath. Catkins protruded at the same time as the leaves. 

 Ovary ovate, sessile, glabrous. (Willd.) A pendulous-branched tree. Asia, 

 on the banks oi the Euphrates, near Babylon, whence its name ; and also 



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