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James's Chronicle, thert-. is the following para- 

 graph, but on what authority he is not ac- 

 quainted :- — " The famous and admired weep- 

 ing willow, planted by Pope, which has lately 

 been felled to the ground, came from Spain, 

 inclosing a present to the late Lady Suffolk. 

 Mr. Pope was in company when the covering 

 was taken oif ; he observed that the pieces of 

 stick appeared as if they had some vegetation, 

 and added. Perhaps they may produce something 

 we have not in England.' Under this idea he 

 planted it in his garden, and it produced the 

 willow tree that has given birth to so many 

 others." 



The eighth species is a bushy shrub three or 

 four feet high, with long slender tough purple 

 shining branches: the leaves some opposite, 

 others alternate, nearly linear, but broadest up- 

 wards, serrate chiefly towards the summit, very 

 smooth, glaucous beneath, destitute of stipules : 

 the male catkins are very slender, scarcely an 

 inch long, nearly sessile, consisting of many 

 thick-set Howers, theuppermost of which expand 

 first : the scales black at the tip, hairy : nectary 

 a solitary gland opposite to each scale : the sta- 

 men one solitary simple, never dividing, bear- 

 ing an orange-coloured double or four-lobed an- 

 ther : the female catkins exactly like the male 

 in size and form. It is particularly distinguish- 

 ed by-the length as well as delicate slenderncss 

 of its twigs, and its subglaucous spurge-like 

 leaves, but above all by their extreme bitter- 

 ness when chewed. It is a native of many parts 

 of Europe. 



The ninth rises to the height of nine or ten 

 feet, and is a small slender tree : in the form of 

 its leaves it difiers from the eighth, being more 

 truly lanceolate and taper-pointed, by no means 

 obovate : the female catkins are somewhat 

 longer, and twice as thick, and stand on longer 

 stalks : the germ is sessile, ovate and silky ; but 

 the stylejs considerably lengthened out, quite 

 smooth aiSd naked : the stigmas also, instead of 

 being short and ovate, are linear and considera- 

 bly elongated : the leaves are less glaucous be- 

 neath and not so bitter : the rose-like excrescen- 

 cies are more common at the ends of the branch- 

 es in it ; whence its name of Rose-Willow. It 

 is a native of many parts of Europe. 



The tenth species is a shrub four or dvt feet 

 high, with upright flexible and very tough 

 branches, of a yellowish ash-colour, otten pur- 

 plish : the leaves alternate, on footstalks, two or 

 three inches long, minutely toothed or some- 

 what serrate, principally towards the top ; smooth 

 on both sides except when very young ; dark 

 green above, glaucous beneath : the stipules 

 Houe : the calkins on short stalks, cylindrical, 



blunt, first red, then yellow, flowering first at 

 the top. It is a native of some parts of Europe 

 on the sandy banks of rivers, flowering in 

 April. 



With us it is cultivated in the fens, and pre- 

 ferred to all other willows or osiers for basket- 

 work. 



The eleventh is a shrub which has the branches- 

 very long, slender, tough, smooth, gray or pur- 

 plish : the leaves about four inches long when 

 full grown, slightly toothed or serrate, by no 

 means entire, of a bright green on both sides, 

 smooth in gene)-al, bat sometimes sprinkled w itli 

 a few slender hairs beneath : the stipules, if 

 present, linear-lanceolate, a little toothed ; but 

 generally wanting. It appears to be little known, 

 though amongst the most valuable as an osier. 

 It is a native of this country, &c. 



The twelfth species often becomes a large 

 tree : the branches when young palish, downy i 

 the leaves slightly tapering to a point at both 

 ends, above green and scarce sensibly downy, 

 underneath pale green with a very thin woolli- 

 ness : edge marked with some notches which 

 are scarcely apparent unless carefully examined, 

 but from the middle downwards evidently waved: 

 the lower buds produce leaves, the upper ones 

 catkins not leafy. It is useful for bees, as flow- 

 ering early. 



The thirteenth is more than six and sometime* 

 near twelve feet high; in exposed boggy grounds 

 spreading more, but not rising so high : the 

 leaves alternate, rude, rugged, wrinkled and 

 green above, beneath rough with hairs, the veins 

 indistinct, the edge serrate, on loose petioles twa 

 lines in length : stipules in shape of half a heart, 

 on each side serrate with three glands : the cat- 

 kins brownish, placed below the leaves, on a 

 peduncle with a few small spear-shaped leaflets. 

 It is the common Sallow, and a native of Eu- 

 rope, flowering in April. 



The fourteenth species, when suffered to grow 

 without lopping, becomes a large and lofty tree : 

 it is of quick growth, but when lopped soon de- 

 cays : the trunk is straight with a gray rough 

 bark full of cracks : the branches numerous, up- 

 right, but diffused, gray or brownish green, the 

 upper ones often dusky red : the inner bark is 

 green : the leaves sharply and elegantly serrate j 

 shining but pubescent above, white and silky 

 underneath: the male catkins cyhndrical, blunt, 

 from an inch and half to two inches in length, 

 four lines in breadth, on pedimcles half an inch 

 long : the stamens two : the nectaries two, one 

 before the stamens obcordate, the other behind 

 them oblong : the female catkins slender, cylin- 

 drical, two inches long, three or four lines 

 broad, on peduncles near an inch in length. It 



