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caprea. Dr. Wimmer, in quoting it as possibly S. Silesiaca, appears to 
have seen no specimens, but to judge from the descriptions in Smith’s 
“Flora Britannica.” 
Great Sallow. 
French, Saule marceau. German, Sohl oder Saal Weide. 
This species has several very valuable qualities. The bark serves the Highlanders 
for tanning, and is no indifferent substitute for cinchona bark in agues. The wood, 
being white, tough, and smooth in grain, forms excellent hurdles, and good handles 
for hatchets. It is also used for charcoal, and in the manufacture of gunpowder. 
The large golden yellow male catkins and the silver grey female ones deck the bare 
branches in the most beautiful manner, rendering the trees conspicuous in the early 
spring, and causing them to be the resort of bees in search of honey. In common 
with other early willows, the sallow is vulgarly called the “palm,” and is used by 
the Roman Catholics of England in their Palm Sunday celebration :— 
“Tn Rome, upon Palm Sunday, 
They bear true palms ; 
The cardinals bow reverently, 
And sing old psalms. 
Elsewhere those psalms are sung 
Beneath the olive branches ; 
The holly-bough supplies their place 
Amid the avalanches.” 
More northern climes must be content, not exactly with “ the sad willow,” as the 
poet goes on to say, for that is the Saliw Babylonia, or weeping willow—a plant not 
used in Roman Catholic celebrations—whereas this one which he intends is an emblem 
of hope and cheerfulness. It is doubtless the same tree as Rosalind found in the 
forest bearing the verses in praise of her—‘‘a palm tree,” as she calls it, according to 
Shakspeare, 
Group II.—PHYLICIFOLIZ. 
Catkin-scales short, brown, fuscous at the apex. Capsule stalked; 
style long. 
Shrubs, rarely trees, with the pubescence of the leaves not crisped 
or woolly. 
SPECIES (?) XIX—SALIX LAURINA. Sm. 
Pirate MCCCXXXII. 
Reich. Tc. Fl. Germ. et Hely. Vol. XI. Tab. DLXIX. Fig. 2004. 
Anders. Mon. Sal. p. 152. Sim. Trans. Linn. Soc. Vol. VI. p. 122. Hook. Brit. Fl. 
ed. iv. p. 368. 
8. Caprea-Weigeliana, Wimm. Sal. Europ. p. 215. 
8. bicolor, Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 1806, and Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. p. 178. 
Leaves, when they are thin and reddish, at length rather rigid or 
subcoriaceous, oval-oblong or oval-obovate, shortly acuminate or sub- 
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