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SALICACE^E. 



Salix frag ills. Linn. 

 THE CRACK, OR RED-WOOD WILLOW. 



Salixfragilis, 



Linn. sp. pi. 1448. 

 Smith's Eng. Flor. 4. p. 185. 

 Hooker's Brit. Flo. p. 421. ed. in. 

 Mackay's Flo. Hibern. p. 246. 



On referring to the botanical and arboricultnral writers 

 who have treated of this tree, we find a remarkable discrep- 

 ancy of opinion existing among them, as to the quality 



