744 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
For small gardens and diminutive arboretums, this tree may 
serve very well to exemplify the Juglandiceze. Care should 
be taken to train it to a single stem, and not to plant it in 
soil so rich and moist as to prevent it from ripening its wood. 
Perhaps, also, something might be gained in point of hardi-, 
ness by gralting it upon the common walnut; either on the 
collar of the stock, in order to form dwarf trees or bushes ; 
or standard high, in order to form trees that would from the 
first have clear straight stems, and as they would ripen their 
wood better, in consequence of growing slower than the 
low trees or bushes, so they would perhaps show blossoms 
and ripen fruit. 1452. P. caucisica. 
Orper LXVII. SALICA‘CEAL. 
OrD. CHAR. — Flowers unisexual, disposed in aments, one in the axil of each 
scale.— Male flowers disposed in cylindrical catkins, with a small gland-like 
perianth, and from 2—30 stamens, which are sub-adnate to the gland, 
generally distinct, rarely monadelphous.—Female flowers disposed in dense 
ovate or cylindrical catkins, each with a free simple perianth. Ovarium 
superior. Style 1. Stigmas 2, often bifid. Capsule \-celled, 2-valved, 
many-seeded. Seeds small, pendulous, downy. Albumen none. (G. Don.) 
Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate, deciduous ; serrated or entire. Flowers 
in catkins, Decaying leaves yellow or black. — Trees deciduous ; natives 
of Europe, Asia, and North America. The genera are two, which are 
thus characterised : — 
Sa tix L. Bracteas entire. Stamens 1—-3. 
Po’pttus L. Bracteas jagged. Stamens 8. 
Genus L. 
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SALIX LZ. Tur Wittow. Lin. Syst. Dice’cia Didndria. 
identification. Lin. Gen., 514.; Juss., 408; Smith in Rees’s Cyclo., vol. 31.; Fl. Br., 10: Ps 
t. a ; Lam., t. 802.; Gertn., t. 90. y : iddgibatiiies 
Synonymes. Harab, Hebrew ; Itea, Gr.; Salix, Lat.; Saule, Fr.; Weide and Felber, Gr.; Salcio, 
Ital. , Sauze, Span. ; Wide, Swed.; Wilge, Flem.; Withig, Anglo-Saz.; Willow, Withy, Sallow, 
Osier, Engl.; Saugh, Scotch. i 
Derivation. From sal, near, and ls, water, Celéic ; in reference to its general habitat. According 
to others, from sa/zve, to leap ; on account of the extraordinary rapidity of its growth. “ 
Gen. Char. $c. Bractea to the ‘flower of each sex entire.—Male flower 
consisting of 1—35 stamens, more in a few species, and of one or more 
glands inserted contiguously to the stamens.—Female flower consisting of 
a pistil that is stalked or sessile, or nearly sessile, and one or more glands 
inserted contiguously to it. (G. Don.) 
Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate, deciduous ; more or less lanceolate 
and serrated. Flowers yellow. Decaying leaves mostly yellow. — Trees 
or shrubs, deciduous ; natives of Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America 
readily propagated by cuttings in any moist soil. 
