CLASSIFICATION OF TREES AND SHRUBS 

 ACCORDING TO THEIR SHAPES. 



I. TREES. I.E. THERE IS ONE CONSPICUOUS STEM, [For (II) 

 OR TRUNK, BEARING THE HEAD, OR CROWN, OF see p. 219] 

 FOLIAGE. 



A. WEEPING i.e. MOST OF THE SMALLER BRANCHES 

 AND TWIGS LONG AND PENDULOUS; OLD BARK 

 FISSURED; FOLIAGE LIGHT AND DROOPING, DE- 

 CIDUOUS; LEAVES LANCEOLATE GREYISH-GREEN; 

 FLOWERS IN CATKINS, SEEDS MINUTE COMOSE. 



Salix bdbylonica, L. Weeping Willow (Fig. 5). A 

 tree of Central Asia, often planted near water, 25 30 feet 

 high at most, and easily recognised by its long and slender 

 sweeping pendulous twigs, grey (sometimes red-brown) 

 fissured bark and catkins. 



Relatively few other trees with weeping habit are 

 common, but varieties of Ash, Birch, Larch, Elm, Spruce, 

 &c., usually denoted var. pendula, &c., occur. They are at 

 once distinguished by several characters common to the 

 normal species (which see). 



B. NOT WEEPING. 



[The ends of the twigs may bend over, and even be 

 slightly pendent, but they are not long, thin and pendulous 

 as a whole.] 



