40. 
THE WEEPING WILLOW. 
Salix babylonica. 
Prater 5, Fie. 7. 
2 By aSeX ESS in height than Salia alba, the 
2 A character which prominently dis- 
tinguishes this species is its 
drooping or weeping habit. It 
seldom grows higher than about 
fifty feet. Its flowers, which 
appear in May, are in colour of a 
greenish yellow, and are borne on catkins, 
which appear about the same time as the 
leaves. The latter are in form acutely lance- 
shaped, and are very finely serrated, the vena- 
tion being similar in character to that on the leaf 
of Salix alba. 
