DIOECIA— DIANDRIA. Salix. 171 



distinguished them, by their leaves, so that no doubt can arise 

 in future. The learned inquirer will find the synonyms of .S. 

 fragilis obscurely implicated in the history of these species ; yet 

 nothing can be much less like them in habit, characters, or 

 qualities. Haller's S . persicce folio auriculato, p. 151 of his first 

 edition, is marked S. fragilis in that book, by Linnseus himself, 

 though quoted in Fl. Suec. ed. 2. 346, for mmjgdalina ; and it 

 appears by the description of Haller that he had the fragilis 

 originally before him. In his second edition, under n. 1636, 

 the description is altered, and rather accords with amygdalina. 



5. S.pentandra. Sweet Bay-leaved Willow. 



Leaves ovate, pointed, crenate, glandular, smooth. Foot- 

 stalks glandular at the summit. Stamens five or more, 

 hairy at the base. Germen ovate, tapering, smooth, 

 nearly sessile. 



S. pentandra. Li7in. Sp. PL 1442. Willd.vA. 658. Fl. Br. 1046. 

 Tr.ofL. Soc. V. 6. 120. Engl. Bot. v. 26. t. 1805. Dicks. H.Sicc. 

 fasc. 3. 15. Hook. Scot. 279. Fl. Dan. t. 943. Ehrh. PI. Off. 

 309. Arh. 48. 



S.n. 1639. Hull. Hist. v. 2. 306. 



S. n. 7. Gmel. Sib. v. 1. 153. t. 34. f. 1. From the author. 



S, folio laureo, sive lato glabro odorato. How Phyt. 108. Rail 

 Syn. 449. 



About rivers, chiefly in the north of England and south of Scot- 

 land. 



At Wolverhampton. Dr. How, who first noticed this species. In 

 Westmoreland, and the mountainous parts of Yorkshire, fre- 

 quent. Ray. About Moffat, and in many other places. 



Tree. June, July. 



A handsome upright tree, about 15 or 20 feet high, exhaling a 

 fragrant bay-like scent from the resinous notches of its leaves, 

 as well as from the barren catkins. The branches are smooth 

 and shining. Leaves on stout, rather short, footstalks, with 

 very small stipulas, or none at all, ovate, with a taper point j 

 their length 2 or 3 inches ; breadth an inch, or inch and half j 

 both sides finely veined, perfectly smooth 5 the upper of a full, 

 rich, shining green ; under paler, and more opaque ; their edges 

 finely and copiously crenate throughout, discharging a yellow 

 resin, whence the scent originates. This resin, as Linnaeus 

 observes, stains paper between which the leaves are pressed, 

 with rows of permanently yellow dots. About the top of each 

 footstalk, in front, are several glands, likewise resinous. Cat- 

 kins solitary, at the ends of leafy shoots of the present year, as 

 in other species ; the barren ones large, dense, yellow, with 

 oblong, obtuse, hairy scales, half the length of their 5 or 6, 

 sometimes 8 or 9, f laments, which are more or less densely 



