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THE WILLOW. 



generally hidden from sight ; but in winter they are often 

 to he seen on the extremities of the branches, each con- 

 taining a number of small white 

 larvEB. They are of the same 

 colour as the bark, and of a 

 corky consistence; but when 

 once formed, they have no 

 vegetative power, the twigs 

 v/hich seemingly pass through 

 them being always withered 

 and dead. 



Willows are common in the 

 East, and are frequently men- 

 tioned in the Bible, as in the 

 passages already quoted, and in 

 the Book of Job xl. 22, where 

 Behemoth is said to be com- 

 passed about with Willows 

 of the brook. Ezekiel (xvii. 5), 

 in his figurative description of 

 the last branch of the house 

 of Judah, says that a great 

 eagle cropped off the topmost 

 twig of a Cedar-tree, and set 

 it by great waters as a Willow- 

 tree. 



Eauwolf states that near 

 '• Halepo (Aleppo), about the 

 rivulets, there is a peculiar 

 sort of Willow-trees, called 

 Saf-caf, &c. These are not all alike in bigness and height, 

 and in their stems and twigs they are not very unlike to 

 Birch-trees (which are long, thin, weak, and of a pale 

 yellow colour) : they have soft ash-coloured leaves, or 

 rather like unto the leaves of the Poplar-tree; and on 

 their twigs here and there are shoots of a span long, like 

 unto those of the Cypriotish wild Fig-tree, which put 



XOW GALI, 



