1242 SALIX. [CLASS XXII. ORDER I. 
“Odours abroad the winds of morning breathe, 
And, fresh with dew, the herbage sprang beneath ; 
Down from the hills that gently sloped away 
To the broad river shining into day, 
They pass’d; along the brink the path they kept, 
Where high aloof o’erarching Willows wept, 
Whose silvery foliage glisten’d in the beam, 
And floating shadows fringed the chequer’d stream.” 
16. S vitelli‘na, 'Linn. (Fig. 1490.) Yellow Willow, or Golden 
Osier, Stamens two; catkins on leafy stalks; capsules ovate, acumi- 
nate, nearly sessile; style short; stigma bifid; scales lanceolate, 
pubescent ; leaves lanceolate, with glandular serratures, silky be- 
neath, often so above; stipules lanceolate. 
English Botany, t. 1389.--English Flora, vol. iv. p. 182.—Salict. 
Wob. p. 89. t. 20.—Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4, vol. i. p. 359.—S. 
alba, 2-—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 231. 
A handsome tree, growing from fifty to seventy feet high, with 
numerous erect branches, with yellow bark, quite smooth and 
shining. Leaves narrow, lanceolate, tapering at each end, with nu- 
merous glandular serratures, a fine smooth green above, glaucous, 
and more or less silky beneath, in a young state silky on both sides, 
each on a short footstalk, with small lanceolate stipules, soon falling 
away. Catkins on short leafy lateral branches, cylindrical, the 
barren ones about two inches long, the fertile about an inch, scales 
lanceolate, more or less waved and pubescent. Stamens scarcely 
longer than the scales. Capsules sessile, or nearly so, ovate, acumi- 
nate, smooth. Style very short. Stigmas deeply cloven. 
Habitat.—Hedges and osier grounds; not unfrequent. 
Tree ; flowering in May. 
This is a handsome tree, remarkable for the yellow colour of its 
branches, and is sometimes planted in pleasure grounds among eyer- 
greens, with which, especially in the winter season, it makes a 
pleasing contrast. It is cultivated in osier grounds for its slender 
flexible branches for basket work, &c. 
Grour 6. Grisea. Borrer. Chiefly shrubs, native of America. 
17. S. petiola'ris, Smith. (Fig. 1491.) Dark long leaved Willow. 
Catkins on leafy branches; scales rounded, or oblong, notched ; 
capsules ovate lanceolate, stalked, very silky ; stigmas divided, nearly 
sessile ; leaves lanceolate, serrated, smooth, when young grey, with 
silky hairs, especially beneath. 
English Botany, t. 1147.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 181.—Saliet. 
Wob. p 45. t. 28.—Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol i. p. 359. 
A shrub or small tree. with slender flexibie smooth dark brown or 
purplish branches. eaves lanceolate, pointed, serrated, smooth, 
bright green above, glaucous and silky beneath, and when young 
