CLASS XXII. ORDER I. ] SALIX. 1257 
and are used for the same purpose on Palm Sunday, in the Roman 
Catholic ceremonies of thatday. The bark, from its containing much 
tanning matter, is used by the Highlanders of Scotland for tanning 
matter; and it has been used as a tonic in the cure of ague in the place 
of Pernvian bark. The wood is light, soft, smooth, and white, and 
is applied to many useful purposes; the branches are flexible and 
durable, and are used for making hurdles, &c. Bees are very fond of 
the ear.y flowers, and they resort to it in great numbers. It will grow 
in either wet or dry situations, and is one of the best trees of the 
genus for making fences. 
38. S. sphacela'ta, Smith. (Fig. 1511.) Withered-pointed Sallow, 
“Stem erect; leaves elliptic-ovate, even veiny, entire, or slightly 
serrated, downy on both sides, discoloured at the point ; stipules half 
heart-shaped, toothed, erect; germens stalked, ovate lanceolate, 
silky ; stigmas notched, longer than the style.” 
English Botany, t. 2333.—“nglish Flora, vol. 4. p. 224—Salict. 
Wob. p. 241. t. 121.—Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 265.— 
S. caprea, ?.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 234. 
“A small bushy tree, six or eight feet high, the young branches 
very soft, with dense hoary short velvety like down. Leaves in like 
manner soft and downy, especially when first opening, always of a 
greyish aspect, their shape obovate, or elliptical, with a small oblique 
point, their length aninch and half, perhaps two or two and half at 
their full growth, the margin either quite entire, slightly, sparingly, 
and unequally serrated, the upper side light green, clothed with fine 
down, which finally di-appears, under side more downy, with a pro- 
minent rib and veins, hoary, not glaucous, the tip from its earliest 
formation nearly naked, green, or brownish, soon !ooking as if blasted 
or withered, assuming a tawny hue. The footstalks are shortish, 
thickly downy. Stipules half heart-shaped, toothed, erect, green, and 
smooth, never large, often wanting. Catkins on short hairy stalks, 
with several ovate, sessile, not large, bracteas densely silky at the 
back, barren ones about an inch long, cylindrical, not half the size of 
S caprea, fertile, somewhat larger and stouter, finally measuring full 
an inch and half. Scales of both obovate, downy, and bearded, 
black in their upper half. Nectary oblong, abrupt, constricted in the 
middle. Stamens twice as long as the scales, with roundish pale 
yellow anthers. Germens lanceolate, silky, on a hairy stalk, as long 
as the scale. Style very short. Stigma thick, either undivided or 
notched, not deeply cloven. Capsules light, reddish brown, somewhat 
silky or downy.”—Simith. 
Habitat.—Finlarig, near the head of Loch Tay.—Rev. Dr. Stuart. 
Tree ; flowering in April and May. 
Of this species it is remarked by Sir W. J. Hooker, that ‘‘ with this 
species I am unacquainted, and Mr. Borrer doubts ifit be a good species.” 
Group 14, Nigricanthes. Borr. A group as difficult to define as 
