148 FOREST TREES. 
too profusely planted. Very large trees of this species 
are met with on Long Island. In Northern Illinois 
it is frequently killed to the ground by the severity 
of the winters. 
The American Weeping Willow, a variety of the 
Salix purpurea, and the Kilmarnock Weeping Wil- 
low, a variety of Salix caprea, are grafted several feet 
from the ground on other species, as they will not 
rise to a tree if grown from cuttings. They are quite 
hardy. 
4. Salix lucida—Shining Willow. 
Leaves, ovate-oblong, or lanceolate, and narrow, 
with a long, tapering point, smooth and shining on 
both sides, serrate; stipules, oblong, toothed; sta- 
mens, five. 
This is a native species, and the most ornamental 
of the genus. It grows to the height of fifteen or 
twenty feet in cultivation, but in its native localities 
is commonly of smaller size. It is frequent along 
the mountain streams of New England, and is easily 
recognized by its leaves, which shine as though coated 
with varnish. JI have never seen it in the Western 
States. 
Salix viminalis, and two or three other foreign 
species of Osier Willow, are cultivated for basket 
work. 
SASSAFRAS, 
Natural Order, Lauracee. 
Flowers, dicecious, with a six-parted calyx; the 
sterile with nine stamens inserted on the base of the 
