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SAUCACE.E. 



margin, beneath they are of a pale glaucous colour, and 

 clothed with down, but 

 dark green above. The g 

 stipules are crescent- 

 shaped. The catkins are 

 oval, very numerous, near- 

 ly sessile, and are ex- 

 panded much earlier than 

 the foliage. The ovary is 

 stalked, silky, and ovate 

 in form ; the stigmas are 

 undivided and nearly ses- 

 sile. 



The Goat Willow or Saugh, though barely reaching, 

 even under favourable circumstances, the dimensions of a 



tree of the second rank, is yet, we think, from the several 

 valuable properties it possesses, of sufficient importance 

 to be admitted within the limits of the present work. In 

 favourable situations, and unmolested in its growth, it 



