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The leaves of all the species of Mulberry form the favorite food of that 
truly wonderful insect,--the silk worm.--Milton makes elegant allusion to 
it, in his Comus. 
‘© Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth. 
With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, 
Covering the earth with odours, fruits and flocks, 
But all to please and sate the curious taste? 
And set to work millions of spinning worms 
That in their green shops weave the smooth hair’d silk, 
To deck her sons. 
If all the werld 
Should in a pet of temperance feed on. pulse,. 
Drink the clear stream and nothing wear but frieze, 
The All-giver would he unthank’d, would be unpraised, 
Nothalf his riches known, and yet despis’d: 
And we should serve him as a grudging master, 
As a penurious niggard of his wealth.” 
The famous, half fabulous Upas.tree of Java, (Antiaris toxicaria) belongs 
to this tribe. The inspissated juice is poisonous, but the baleful effect of 
its shade is only imaginary, and poetical. Southey inhis “ Paraguay” alludes 
to it. 
“* A direr curse had they inherited, 
Than if the Upas then had rear’d its head’ 
And sent its baleful scions all around, 
Blasting where’er its effluent force was shed). 
fu air and water, and the infected ground, 
AJl things wherein the breath or sap of life is found.” 
ORDER 128. SALICINEZ. 
THE WILLow TRIBE. Lind. Nat. syst. p. 98, 
649. SALIX. tL. Dioecia Diandria. 
Said to be derived from the Celtic sal—near—lis—water; in allusion to 
the habitat of the willow tribe. Gaert. 2. ¢. 90. Tourn. ¢. 364. Lam, 3. ¢, 
802. 
1389, S. TerraspermMa. Rox. Flora. 3. p: 753. Rox. Cor. 1. t. 97, 
Indian willow.— A small, elegant looking tree, with lanceolate, serrulate 
Yeaves, whitish beaneath:—flowers in the cold weather, 
The vale of the Yena and other moist places, Mahableshwur.—In various 
parts of the Southern Mahratta Country. (Mr. Law.) 
1390. S. Baspytonica. Willd. Spec. 4. p. 671. Lour. Cochin China. 2: p. 
609. 
The Weeping willow:—In gardens, introduced. , 
‘« By the rivers of Babylon there we sat down: We hanged our harps 
upon the willows, in the midst thereof.” sh, 
Psalm 137. 
Pope had one at Twickenham, 
‘¢ With graceful grandeur towering. 
Its pensile boughs profusely spread, 
The breezy lawn embowering.” 
Montgomery. 
There is a plant, in Parell garden, reared from a cutting of the tree, which 
appropriately shades the tomb of the Emperor Napoleon,—It is in no wise 
different from the Babylonian willow, here referred to. 
