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us that in France " a fine blood-red colour is obtained 

 from the bark which is also used in the preparation of 

 leather for making gloves.'''' 



The species is widely spread throughout Europe, possess- 

 ing a range from Norway to the Mediterranean, and is 

 also a native of the north, east, and west, of Asia. 



The foliage of the Willows, and among the rest that 

 of the present species, is the food of the larvae of nu- 

 merous lepidopterous, coleopterous, and hymenopterous 

 insects ; among those of the Lepidoptera we have observed 

 most of the following, Smerinthus populi, and ocellalus, 

 Clostera reclusa, and curtula, Cerura furcula, arcuata, 

 and mnula, Notodonta ziczac, Leiocampa dictcea, Leucoma 

 salicis, Orthosia sparsa, and lota, Calyptra libatrix, Bom- 

 bycia viminalis, Zanthia aurago, Cabera pusaria, Cidaria 

 salicata, &c. The ravages of some larva? are not, how- 

 ever, confined to the leaves, for the wood itself is bored 

 into and fed upon by the caterpillar of the Goat Moth, 

 (Cossus ligniperda), and we have had young trees at- 

 tacked and riddled, as it were, by the grub of the Cryp- 

 torynchus lapatM, a coleopterous insect belonging to the 

 Cnrculionidse or Weevil tribe, and whose habits and depre- 

 dations are noticed and accurately described by Mr. W. 

 Curtis, in the 1st. vol. of " The Linnean Society's Trans- 

 actions." At the period of flowering, Willow trees swarm 

 with hosts of honey-bees, and other species belonging to 

 that family, among which the party-coloured and sonorous 

 humble-bees are eminently conspicuous ; and when in full 

 foliage they become, from the abundance of insect food 

 they afford, the favourite resort of several of our insectiv- 

 orous warblers, such as the black-cap (Curruca atricapil- 

 la), greater petty chaps (Curruca hortensis), and those 

 delicate species of the genus Sylvia, commonly known by 



