28f) DIOECIA— DIANDRIA. Salix. 



Tree. May and August. Sm. 



If suffered to grow, becomes a large tree. Ls. smooth on both 



sides, the base narrow, and sloping off, towards the stalk, Catk. 



cylindrical, yellow, with hairy, blunt scales. NecL very blunt. 



Stiff, spreading, cloven. Stam. twice as long as the scales. 



It casts off its bark annually in large portions, like the plane- 

 tree. Bark lightly astringent, bitterish, has been found service- 

 able in the cure of agues : in doses of one or two drachms. 



Sa. amygdalina very much resembles this species. The nar- 

 rower-leaved willows generally named osiers ; this one of the most 

 valuable for white basket work, producing rods eight or nine feet 

 long, tough, and very durable. Sm. 



S. Hoffmannidna . Short-leaved Triandroiis TV. Leaves 

 eg-g.shaped-oblong, saw-toothed, smooth ; shghtly 

 rounded at the base. Stamens three. Germen stalked, 

 e^g-shaped, compressed, smooth. Stigmas nearly 

 stdkless. C. 6. 72. E. B. Supp. 2620. 



BanJcs of rivulets. " Common almost every where about Oxford . 

 Frequent also about Rugby, Warwickshire, 1831." B^v. 



Shrub, or small tree. May. 



A handsome species, growing from ten to fifteen feet high, casting 

 its bark in the autumn like the other triandrous willows. Ls. 

 egg-shaped, or egg-spear-shaped, with a very taper point ; the 

 under side light green, scarcely glaucous. 

 Differs from Sa. triandra in its humbler gi'owth, in the leaves 



being rounded at the base, and in the larger, rounded, ear-shaped 



stipulas : and from Sa. amygdalina in the leaves being not glau- 

 cous underneath, and in wanting the deep furrows of the young 



twigs, so remarkable in that species." Bx. 



(S. amygdalina. Broad-leaved Triandrous TV, ; or 

 Almond-lea^jed TV. Leaves egg-shaped, saw-toothed, 

 smooth ; rounded and unequal at the base. Stamens 

 three. Germen egg-shaped, compressed, smooth j its 

 stalk almost as long as the scale. Stigmas nearly 

 stalkless. Young branches furrowed. E. B. 1636. 



Banks of rivers and ditches. Pn. Fl. 



Shrub, or small tree. April, May ; and again in August. 

 A large, bushy shrub, casting its bark.) 



* S. pentandra. Sweet Bay-leaved TV. Leaves egg- 

 shaped, pointed, notched, glandidar, smooth. Foot- 

 stalks glandular at the summit. Stamens five, some- 

 times less or more, hairy at the base. Germen egg- 

 shaped, tapering, smooth, nearly stalkless. E. B. 1805. 



Near rivers. Banks- of the Cherwell, Christ-church Meadow, 

 Oxford. Br. 



Tree. June, July. 



