595 DIOECIA DIANDRIA. 



This may be rank'd among the fmaller kinds of 

 willows, being feldoin more than eight or tea 

 feet high. 'I he bark, fo f^r as we have obferv'd, 

 is of a light green colour ; the twigs tough and 

 pliant ; the fcalcs of the gems reddifh ; the leaves 



' areaboiitan inch and a half long, and i- 3d of an 



ii.ch wide ; the lower ones S[re generally alter- 

 nate, the upper ones oppofite, or nearly fo, 

 imooth on both fides, but often a little glaucous 

 ' underneath. Some of them are entire on the 



'" I' edges throughout, but uAially the upper part is 



ferrated, and the bafe entire. The figure ot the 

 leaves is near to the linear- lam eol at e^ but lo that 

 ''1 their wideft diameter is above the middle part. 



,. The catkins are three quarters of an inch long, 



cylinrical, feflile, lateral, and fubtended by three: 

 leaves. The fcales are concave, roundifh, black 



, .. .,; ,, ■ and hairy ; thofe of the male catkins have each 

 but out Jl am en. The anlbera is quadrangular 

 . , before it burfts, and orange- colour'd ; the pow- 

 der yellow i the caplules covered vvith a fatin 

 down. 



$urprea 5 SALIX foliis ferratis glabris ianceolatis inferioribus 

 S . , oppofitis. Sp.pl. 1444. {Fi^. nulla.) 



Purple Wyiov/. Anglis. 



On the banks of the EJk, near Nelheri}\ in EJk- 

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