LXVIII. SALICA‘CEZ: SALIX. 757 
Wob.) A handsome low-growing tree, with the branches of the preceding 
year of a greyish green colour and smooth, and the young twigs of a 
yellowish green, somewhat striated or angular at the points. Switzerland, 
and, perhaps, North America. Introduced in 1812. Height 20 ft. to 30 ft. 
Flowers yellow ; April and May. 
Group v. Frdgiles Borrer. 
Trees, with their Twigs mostly brittle at the Joints. Prin. sp. 19. 22. and 24. 
Pie llellalle 
Stamens 2 to a flower. Ovary glabrous, elongated, seated upon a more or 
less obvious stalk. Flowers very loosely disposed in the catkin. Leaves 
lanceolate, serrated, glabrous, stipuled. The plants, trees of considerable 
size. (Hook. Br, Fi., ed. 2., adapted.) 
¥ 19. S.BaBYLo’NIcA. The Babylonian, or weeping, Willow. 
Identification. Lin. Sp. Pl., 1443. ; Smith in Rees’s Cyclo., No. 42. ; Koch Comm., p. 17. 
Si S. propénd Sering. Sal. Hel. p. 73.3 S. orientalis, &c., Tourn. ; 8. arabica, &c., C. 
Bauh.; Saule pleureur, Parasol du grand Seigneur, Fr. ; Trauer Weide, Thranen Weide, Ger. 
The Sexes. The female is figuredin Sai. Wob.; the male is not known, in a living state, in Britain ; 
unless it be S. b. Hapoleona; as suggested in p. 758. 
Engravings. Rauw. It., 25. 183.; our fig. 22. in p. 795.; the plates of this tree in Arb. Brit., Ist 
edit., vol. v 
ii. ; and our jig. 1441. 
» 1441. S$. babyldnica. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, finely serrated, glabrous ; 
glaucous beneath. Catkins protruded at the same time as the leaves. 
Ovary ovate, sessile, glabrous. (Willd.) A pendulous-branched tree. Asia, 
on the banks ot the Euphrates, oe whence its name ; and also 
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