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IVob.) 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 20 ft. to 30 ft. 

 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. FL, ed. 2., adapted.) 



S 19. ?. babylo'nica. The Babylonian, or M/eepiwg, 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. orientilis, &c., Tourn. ; S. ar&bica, &c., C. 



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

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



unless it be S. b. Napolebna, as suggested in p. 768. 

 Engrazn'ngs. Rauw. It, 25. 183. ; our Jig. 22. in p. 795. ; the plates of this tree in Arb. Brit., 1st 



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



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IIU. S. babyldnica. 



Sj}cc. Char., ^c. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, finely serrated, glabrous , 

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

 Ovary ovate, sessile, glabrous. (IVi/ld.) A pendulous-branched tree. Asia, 

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



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