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in hedgerows and waste places. It forms a large shrub or small 
tree, which blooms earlier than any other native species, pro- 
ducing its short thick silky catkins before the leaves. The 
reticulated leaves are silky, hairy below, and vary in outline 
from lanceolate to oblong or rotundate, and crenate or entire at 
the margin. Scales of the female catkins tipped with black. 
S. cinerea, S. aquatica, and a host of other names belong to this 
species. WS. c. péndula is the Kilmarnock Weeping Willow. 
4. 8. purpurea. Purple Osier.—A small indigenous shrub 
with reddish or purple bark. Leaves often opposite, glabrous, 
lanceolate, serrulate, glaucous beneath. Catkins sessile, narrow, 
with dark purple scales. Stamens 2; filaments more or less 
combined, a.character peculiar to this amongst British species. 
This includes a large number of forms, but only one calls for 
mention, namely, péndula, commonly known as the American 
Weeping Willow. 
5. S. pentandra. Bay Willow. —This is a very distinct and 
handsome species with broader thicker more shining foliage 
than any of the foregoing, and five or more stamens. It is, 
moreover, the latest in bloom of British species, producing its 
bright yellow catkins after the appearance of the leaves. 
6. S. tridndra. Almond-leaved or French Willow.—A small 
tree with glabrous linear-lanceolate glandular-serrate leaves 
and glandular petioles. Stamens 3. This species is commonly 
planted in Osier beds. 
S. vimindlis is another common Osier, distinguished by its 
entire leaves with a revolute margin and sessile catkins. S. 
repens is the common creeping or trailing species. S. péndula, 
syn. S. Babylonica, is the old Weeping Willow, with very long 
slender drooping branches and narrow leaves. It is a native 
of China, according to Professor Koch, not of Western Asia, as 
formerly supposed, and is sometimes known as Napoleon’s 
Willow. The female plant only is in cultivation. Another 
handsome Weeping Willow, in cultivation under the -erro- 
neous names Siebdéldit and Japédnica, is called elegantissima 
by Koch. 
2. POPULUS. 
Deciduous trees whose scaly buds are often covered with a 
clammy resinous exudation. Catkins pendulous, appearing 
before the leaves; scales irregularly lobed or cut. ‘Leaves 
usually broad, rounded or angular. The species of this genus 
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