6oi DIOECIA DIANDRIA. 



There is a fingular voriety of this, with narfowet 

 elliptic leaves, about two inches and a half 

 lon'% and three quarters of an inch wide, hav- 

 '■ ' ing large fcmiciicular \\:na\.tCiJlipii'<:c at the bafe 



of their footftalics. Thefe leaves are ferrated on 

 th.c edges, and downy underneath like the above. 

 It feems to be a kind ot hybridous flirub, be- 

 tween the S. caprea and S. aurita. We imagine 

 it to be the S. caprea var. y. Lin. Sp. 144H. 



The inhabitants of the Highlands and Hebrides 

 frequently uie the bark of thefe to tan their 

 leather. The wood is fmooth, foft white and 

 flexible. It is often ufed to make handles for 

 hatchets, pr-jngs, fpades, &c. and to furnifli 

 fnoemakers with cutting-boards and whctting- 

 boards, to fmooth the edges of their knives up- 

 c n. The caterpillars of numerous FhaUn£, and 

 other infects, teed up( n the leaves of this and 

 ctiier fpecits of the genus. 



%'mina!isii^ SALIX foliis fubintegerrimis lanccolato-linearibus 

 longifTimis acutis Jubtus fericeis, ramis virgatis^ 

 Sp. pi. 1448. {Fig- nulla.) 

 ■ Tlic Ofier. Jnglis. 



In moift grounds, cfpecially near villages, frequent. 

 ^. V. 



This ihrub grows to be ten or iwelve feet high, 



• and is vrry quick in growth. The twigs are 



long, Hcnder, and pliant ; the leaves three, and 



fometin^es 



