DIOECIA— DIANDRIA, Salix. 289 



(S. Russellidna. Bedford W. Leaves spear-shaped, 

 tapering at each end, saw-toothed throughout, very 

 smooth. Foot-stalks glandular, or leafy. Germen 

 tapering, stalked, longer than the scales. Style as 

 long as the stigmas. E. B. 1808. 



Banks of rivers, and ditches. Pn. FL 

 Tree. April, May. 



A more handsome tree, of a brighter hue. Branches slender 

 and straight, not angular at their insertion like Sa. fragilis. Tim- 

 ber and bark very valuable.) Sm. 



* S. purpurea. Bitter Purple TV. Branches trailing, 

 lying down. Leaves partly opposite, inversely egg- 

 spear-shaped, saw-toothed, very smooth ; narrow at the 

 base. Stamen one. Stigmas very short, egg-shaped, 

 nearly stalkless. E. B. 1388. C. 6. 71. f. 5. 



Low meadows, banks of rivers and ditclies. In a, ditch round Christ- 

 church Meadow, Oxford. Bx. 



Shrub. March. 



Branches long, slender, tough, frequently purplish. Catk. stanien- 

 bearing ones, very slender, nearly stalkless. Scales black at 

 the tip, hairy. Anth. orange-coloured, double, or four-lobed. 

 Pistil-bearing catk. same in size and form. Germen stalkless, 

 small, egg-shaped, silky. 

 Leaves and twigs extremely bitter. 



Discrim. Differs, according to Sm. from Sa. Helix, by its spread- 

 ing, decumbent habit, never becoming a tree ; by its purple 

 branches, smaller, and more slender catk. by its small, egg- 

 shaped, blunt, nearly stalkless stigmas. More rare than Sa. 

 HeHx. 

 Hoffmann unites the species Sa. piirpurea, and Sa. Helix, under 



the name of Sa, monandra, followed in this by Curtis, and 



approved by Hooker in Fl. Scot. But see H. British FL 1830. 

 Valuable osier for fine basket-work, but more especially for 



platting in a growing state into low, close fences, to keep out hares 



and rabbits, the leaves and bark being so bitter, that those animals 



will not touch either. 



S. Helix. Rose fV Branches erect. Leaves partly 

 opposite, oblong-spear-shaped, pointed, slightly saw- 

 toothed, very smooth ; linear towards the base. Stamen 

 one. Style nearly as long as the linear, divided stig- 

 mas. E. B. 1343. S. monandra. C. 6. 71- Sb. 16. 



Marshes, osier-cjrounds, banks of rivulets. 



' So called, because the tops of the branches are sometimes expanded into 

 little scaly heads, somewhat resembling roses ; this is the effect of an insect. 

 Curtis. 



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