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common corn poppy, the papaver rh&as not being found in Staf- 

 fordshire. 



Salix Russellina (Bedford willow). This species having the 

 property of fragility in its small branches, which being struck 

 with a finger break off at the shoot of the present; it was ge- 

 nerally mistaken for the Salix Fragilis of Linnseus, which has not 

 been found in this county. The error was first discovered by his 

 Grace the Duke of Bedford, in honour of whom the species is 

 termed Russellina. Its cultivation is much increased from the 

 rapidity of its growth, and the value of its timber being of easy 

 cleft : it is greatly esteemed for making hurdle bars. 



Salix caprea (great round-leaved willow). Flowers at the be- 

 ginning of April, the earliest of the willow kind. The catkins are 

 vulgarly and not inaptly called goslings, from their striking simi- 

 larity of colour, and their appearance precisely at the time when 

 goslings are hatched. It is very common, of both sexes, of spon- 

 taneous growth. 



Salix aquatica (water willow). The provincial name is Black 

 Withy : this is by far the most common of all our willows, though 

 not noticed by Linnaeus. It appears to have been mistaken by 

 him for Salix einerea, to which, Dr. Smith observes, it approaches 

 very nearly. The wood is greatly esteemed by wheelwrights to 

 make waggon staves : that of Salix caprea is likewise used for the 

 same purpose. 



Salix aurita (round-eared sallow). Inferior in size to Salix 

 aquatica. In hedge-rows in wet soils at Blymhill, very common of 



both sexes. 



At a recent meeting of the Bath Philosophical Society, Dr. Wil- 

 kinson gave the analysis of a very strong Saline Spring, situated 

 in the neighbourhood of Stafford. Sixteen ounces of the water 

 contained 214 grains of saline matter, dried at the temperature of 

 180 degrees. One, hundred grains, by analysis, yielded 



14 grains muriate of magnesia, 



2 sulphate of lime, 



6 sulphate of magnesia, 



78 muriate of soda. 



The Wedges Mill, and Church Bridge Manufactory, of* late 

 years established by Mr. Gilpin, is a considerable addition to the 

 commercial and manufacturing interests of the county : some good 

 bouses, and many tenements and workshops, have been erected 



