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STUDIES OF TREES 



WEEPING WILLOW (Salix babylonica) 



Distinguishing characters: All the willows have a 

 single cap-like scale to the bud, and this species has an 



FIG. 47. Weeping Willow. 



unusually drooping mass of slender branchlets which 

 characterizes the tree from all others, Fig. 47. 



