1238 SALIX. CLASS XXII, ORDER I. 
Asia, Persia, China, and Africa, but flourishes well in almost all] 
pacts of Europe. Various accounts are given as to the time that it 
was introduced into England; one is, that our poet Pope, happening 
to be with Lady Suffolk at the time when that lady received a present 
from Spain, or some say Turkey, and observing that some of the 
twigs bound round it appeared as though they would grow, took 
them saying, ‘‘ Perhaps these may produce something that we have 
not in England ;” and planting one of them in his garden at Twicken- 
ham, it beeamethe Weeping Willow, afterwards so celebrated as Pope’s 
Willow, and which became the parent of{ many others now growing 
in England. But the proprietor of the villa, a few years since, had 
it cut down, as he was annoyed by persons asking to see it. The 
association of objects with the various events of our lives must be 
familiar to all as the fact, that certain objects do create in the 
mind trains of thought which, if they had not been seen, might have 
remained evermore dead to the individual. The Weeping Willow, 
from its being a tree frequently selected to overshadow the grave of 
some departed relative or friend, is a familiar instance of this. 
And what can appeal to the feelings of the Jews more strongly 
than the Weeping Willow, which may remind them of their Baby- 
lonish conquerors leading the daughters of Jerusalem away captive ? 
And how affecting the allusion to these trees in the 137th Psalm— 
* By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, 
Yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion, 
We hanged our harps upon the Willows in the midst thereof.” 
14. SN. Russellia’na, Smith. (Fig. 1488.) Bedford Willow. Stamens 
two; catkins on leafy stalks; capsule ovate lanceolate, smooth, 
stalked ; style as long as the thickish bifid stigmas; seales narrow, 
lanceolate, slightly pubescent, and ciliated; leaves lanceolate, taper- 
ing, strongly serrated, smooth, very pale beneath ; stipules obliquely 
half heart-shaped, tapering, serrated. 
English Botany, t. 1808.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 186.—Salict. 
Wob. p. 55. t. 28. and frontispiece (the tree ).—Hooker, British Flora, 
ed. 4, vol. i. p. 358.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 230. 
A handsome tree, growing to eighty or ninety feet high, with long 
straight slender branches, tough, round, flexible, with a polished 
bark. Leaves lanceolate, tapering at each end, strongly serrated, 
with a channeled footstalk, tapering into a stout mid-rib, quite 
smooth, but somewhat silky when young, a bright green above, very 
pale beneath, towards the top of the footstalk there are usually 
several glands, and sometimes small leaflets. Stipules obliquely half 
heart-shaped, strongly serrated, often wanting. Catkins on lateral 
leafy branches, about two inches long, the scales narrow lanceolate, 
with an obtuse point, more or lcss downy and ciliated. Capsules 
lanceolate, smooth, half as long again as the scale, on a short stalk 
Style as long as the deeply divided spreading stigmas. 
