150 salicace^:. 



Nat. Orel. Salicaceee. 



Genus Salix, Linn. Linn. Syst. Diacia 



Diandria. 



THE WILLOW. 



Of this veiy extensive, and, to the botanist, difficult 

 and puzzling genus, the only British species admissible 

 into the present work, being such as attain the size of trees 

 of the first and second ranks, and produce valuable timber, 

 appear to be the four following : — 1st. Sallx fragilis, Crack, 

 or Red wood Willow ; 2nd. Salix Husselliana, Duke of 

 Bedford's Willow ; 3rd. Sal. alba, White-tree, or Hunt- 

 ingdon Willow ; and, 4th., Sal. caprea, the Goat- Willow, 

 or Saugh. The two first of these belong to Borrer's 5th 

 group, or Fragiles, as exemplified in Loudon's " Arboretum 

 Britannicum ;" the third to the 6th group, or Alba, of 

 Borrer ; and the fourth to the 16th group, Cmereee, of the 

 same author. We might perhaps be justified in adding 

 that beautiful exotic species, introduced, it is supposed, 

 upwards of a century ago, the Salix Babylonica, Weeping 

 Willow, which, under favourable circumstances, in the 

 southern and midland parts of England, attains a con- 

 siderable size, or that of a tree of the second magnitude ; 

 but, as it is only cultivated for its ornamental and classic 

 effect in landscape and picturesque gardening, and not 

 for its timber, which is valueless, we have omitted it in our 

 list. Of the other British species, amounting, according 



