1234 SALIX. (CLASS XXII. ORDER I, 
Sir W. J. Hooker says, is “apparently the S. Hoppeana, of Willd. 
(according to my specimens from Saltzburg), differing only in the 
notched or reture bracteas.” Mr. Borrer seems to think that it is the 
S. triandra, of Curtis Fl. Lond. British Flora. 
The ancient Britons appear to have been famous for their basket 
works. We find Martial thus alludes to it— 
“ From Britain’s painted sons I came, 
And Basket is my barbarous name, 
But now I am so modish grown, 
That Rome would claim me for her own.” 
And Lucan, speaking of the use to which the twigs and branches are 
applied, says— 
“ The bending Willow into barks they twine, 
Then line the work with spoils of slaughter’d kine.” 
9. S. Hoffmannia'na. Smith. (Fig. 1483.) Short leaved Triandrous 
Willow. “'Triandrous, leaves shortly and broadly lanceolate, acute, 
slightly rounded at the base, serrated, glabrous; ‘ germens stalked, 
ovate, compressed, glabrous; stigmas nearly sessile.’ "—Hooker. 
English Flora, vol. iv. p. 168.—Salict. Wob. p. 31. t. 16.--Borr. 
in English Botany, Supp. t. 2620.—Hooker. British !lora, ed 4. vol. 
1. p. 857.—S. amygdalina, ~.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 231. 
“A much branched shrub, or crooked tree, scarcely exceeding 
twelve feet. Bark of the stem and large branches deciduous, as in 
the other triandrous Willows. The humbler growth, the short flat 
lanceolate Jeaves more rounded at the base, with larger rounded ear- 
shaped stipules, distinguish this plant from S. triandra, with which 
it is said to agree in the fertile flowers, as it does in wanting the deep 
furrows of the young twigs, so remarkable in S$. amygdalina.”— 
Hooker. 
Habitat.—Sides of streams in Sussex (sterile plant), and near 
Cambridge. 
Shrub or small tree; flowering in May. 
10. S. amygdali'na, Linn. (Fig. 1484.) Almond leaved Willow. 
Triandrous, catkins on leafy stalks; scales smooth at the point; 
capsules ovate, conical, obtuse, smooth, on long stalks; style very 
short; stigmas notched, spreading; leaves oblong, ovate, acute, 
rounded at the base, smooth, serrated; stipules obtuse, half cordate ; 
young branches furrowed. 
English Botany, t. 1936.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 169.—Salict. 
Wob. p. 35, t 18—Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 357,.— 
Lindley, Synopsis, p. 231. 
A tree, when uninjured growing to the height of twenty to thirty 
feet, casting its bark every autumn, its branches are round, smooth, 
and when young deeply furrowed, of a yellowish brown colour, often 
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