WILLOWS. 



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thoughts, it should be the pleasure of the poet to associate the 

 Willows. 



NOTE. 



Botanists enumerate some thirty distinct species of Willow, 

 each with its train or varieties. Four Willows only, the Bay-leaved 

 Willow (Salix Pentandra), the Sallow or Goat Willow (Salix Caprea), 

 the Osier (Salix viminalis and purpurea), and the Common Willow 

 (Salix fragilis, Salix alba, and Salix Russelliana), are here taken in 

 detail as types. 



BY A SILENT STREAM. 



(Copyright, Fran;; Hani-'stcengl.) 



