1254 SALIX. | CLASS XXII, ORDER I. 
lanceolate, with an ovate base, clothed with a silky pubescence, and 
elevated on a silky stalk. Style short, thick. Stigma ovate, entire 
or deeply cleft. 
Habitat.—Banks of rivers, and in moist woods ; common. 
Tree ; flowering in April. 
This is one of the least ornamental and useful of the tribe ; but 
from its flowering before most other trees, it is worn on Palm 
Sunday by Roman Catholics, in commemoration of that day, in the 
absence of the real palm branches: and it may have been this 
Willow which was in the hands of those who followed in the pro- 
fession, that suggested to Wordsworth on a Sunday morning in the 
vale of Chammouny the idea that 
“The Hebrews thus carrying in joyful state 
Thick boughs of palm and willows from the brook, 
Marched round the altar—to commemorate 
How, when their course they through the desert took, 
Guided by sigus which ne’er the sky forsuok, 
They lodged in leafy tents and cabins low, 
Green boughs were borne, while for the blast that shook 
Down to the earth the walls of Jericho, 
These shout hosannas,—these the startling trumpets blow !” 
34. S. aqua'tica, Smith. (Fig. 1507.) Water Sallow. Catkins 
sessile, with scaly bractea at the base, appearing before the leaves; 
capsules ovate lanceolate, silky, stalked; stigmas nearly sessile; 
leaves obovate, elliptical, minutely downy, flat, somewhat glaucous 
beneath, slightly serrated ; stipules rounded, toothed. 
English Botany, t. 1437.—English Flora, vol. iv. p. 218.—Salict. 
Wob. p. 253. t. 127.—Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4 vol. i. p. 365.— 
S. cinerea, 2.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 233. 
A bushy shrub or low tree, with numerous erect branches when 
young, hoary, often angular, with reddish brown bark. Leaves soft 
and pliant, of a dull greyish green, reticulated with fine veins, not 
rugged, becoming quite smooth above, glaucous and downy beneath, 
elliptic oblong, acute or obovate, rounded and obtuse, about two 
inches long and one broad, the margins more or less serrated, espe- 
cially towards the point. Stipules rounded, toothed, small. Caikins 
appearing before the leaves, sessile, or nearly so, with several brac- 
teated scales at the base. Scales obovate, dark purple in the upper 
half, very silky. Capsules ovate lanceolate, silky, on a short hairy 
stalk. Style very short. Stigmas thick, ovate, entire. 
Habitat—Watery places in woods, hedges, banks of rivers and 
pools; frequent. 
Shrub or small Tree ; flowering in April. 
This is related to S. cinerea and S oleifolia; but the leaves are 
broader, of a thinner texture, and are without the rusty hue apparent 
