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SALIX MONANDRA. Birrer WILLOW. 
SALIX Lin. Gen. Pl. 
Masc. Amenti {quame. 
Fam. Amentz {quame. 
Sem. pappofa. 
DiorzciA DIANDRIA. 
Cor. o... Glandula bafeos ne&arifera. 
Cor.O, Stylus 2-hidus. | Caf. 1-locularis, 2-valvis. 
Raiz Syn. Gen. 28. ARBORES ET FRUTICES. 
SALIX monandra folis ferratis, glabris, lineari-lanceolatis, fuperioribus obliquis. Hofman hift. 
Salic. p. 18. 
SALIX purpurea folus ferratis glabris lanceolatis: inferioribus oppolitis. 
Sb. Pl. p. 1444. Fl. Suec. n. 884. 
SALIX Helix folis ferratis glabris lanceolato-linearibus : fuperioribus oppofitis obliquis. 
Vegetab. 5. 879. Sp. Pl. 1444. 
Lin. Syfl. Vegetab. p. 879. 
Lin. Syft. 
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SALIX monandra, foliis glabris, lineari-lanceolatis, ferratis, fuperne conjugatis, julis tomentofis, 
Hall. hzfl. n. 1640. 
SALIX purpurea. Scopolt Fl. Carn. n. 1909. Diacn. /quame monandre. 
SALIX monandra. Arduin. Memor. 1. Spec. 67. tab. TM 
SALIX humilior foliis anguftis fubceruleis ex adverfo binis. Rai Syn. 448. The yellow dwarf 
Willow. 
SALIX Helice Theophrafic Lugdun. p. 277. 
P- 597- 
Hudf. Fl. Angl. ed. 9. p. 427. Lightfoot Fl. Scot, 

BCU S Pacdioena Hebilisranols i axbufculum 
nobifcum fepe excrefcens, in feptentrionali 
parte Anglie multo humilior. 
RAMI tenues, teretes, viminei, tenaciffimi, nitidi, 
cortice cinereo, olivaceo. feu purpurafcente,.- 
nobifcum raro intenfe purpureo. 
FOLIA nunc oppofita, nunc alterna, idque in eadem 
planta, petiolata, lanceolata, verfus apicem 
latiora, apice acuta, bafi obtufa, femunciam 
circiter lata, multo etiam latiora, fig. 6. et an- 
guftiora occurrunt, margine nunc undique 
ferrata, nunc fuperne tantum, etiam integer- 
rima, lzvia, fuperne e ceruleo viridia, fubtus 
glauca, idque femper quoad obfervavimus, 
avenia, nervo medio albido, glandulis defti- 
tuta, /apore amarifimo. 
PETIOLUS brevis, bafi latior. 
AMENTA ma/cula plurima, fubterminalia, nunc op- 
! pofita, idque alterne, nunc alterna, fubfef- 
filia, pollicaria, cylindracea, compacta, e- 
rectiufcula, fzpe incurvata, primum e rufo- 
nigricantia, lanugine incana, exfertis an- 
theris pulchre aurantiaca; /quame fubro- 
tunde, concave, pilofz, ad medium ufque 
nigre, intus faepe rubelle, demum reflexe, 
Sig. 1. 
STAMEN: Firamentum unicum, fquamà duplo 
longius, filiforme, pilofum ; AN THERA ma- 
jufcula, fig. 2, quadrangulà, quadriloba, 
primo aurantiaca, dein flava, demum nigri- 
cans. 
NECTARIUM : Glandula truncata, emarginata, fla- 
vefcens, feflile, jig. 3. 
AMENTA /feminea, mafculis quoad formam fimilia, 
at flavefcentia, et minus contorta, fig. 5. 
PISTILLUM : Geren ovatum, fubglobofum, fef- 
file; SrvLvs vix ullus; SriGM A bilabiatum, 
flavefcens, labiis emarginato bifidis, demum # 
e rufo nigricantibus, fig. 4. 
Ee nene dae e ae e e pe te Ee Ue ae eU e de qe Ie Ie ote othe aN 
R s Weg, Na, aie, aS as aras ep Mg, alg, as at 
T ne tente ee tie ne mte te me ne na nte detecte ne reram He epp AN Eie e e iti de Pa e iE e 
AE Le ae ete ee 
A SHRUB of a middling fize, weak, branched, with 
us often growing up into a fmall tree, in the 
North of England of much humbler growth; 
BRANCHES flender, round, twiggy, extremely 
tough, gloffy, the bark afh-coloured, olive; 
or purplifh, feldom of a deep purple with us. 
LEAVES now oppofite, now alternate, and that in 
the fame plant, flanding on footftalks, lan- 
ceolate, broadeft towards the tip, pointed 
at the end, obtufe at the bafe, about half an 
inch in breadth, but much broader, fig. 6. and 
much narrower leaves occur, the edge fome- 
times ferrated throughout, fometimes above 
only, even perfeétly entire, fmooth, above of 
a blueifh green colour, beneath glaucous, and 
that always as far as we have obferved, 
veinlefs, the midrib whitifh, without glands, 
and of an extremely bitter tajfie. 
LEAF-STALK, fhort, broadeft at the bafe. 
CATKINS of the male plant numerous, fomewhat 
terminal, fometimes oppofite, and that al- 
ternately fo, fometimes alternate, nearly fef- 
file, about an inch in length, cylindrical, 
compact, nearly upright, often bowed, at 
firft of a reddifh black colour, covered with 
a grey down, when the anthere put forth, 
of a beautiful orange ; /cales roundifh, con- 
cave, hairy, black as far as the middle, 
often reddifh withinfide, finally reflexed, 
ignes Ve 
STAMEN : one FirAMENT twice the length of the 
{cale, filiform, hairy; AwrHrnA largifh, 
jig. 2, quadrangular, compofed of four lobes, 
at firft orange-coloured, then yellow, lafily 
blackifh. 
NECTARY: a Gland truncated, emarginate, yel- 
lowifh, and feffile, fig. 3. 
CATKINS ofthe female, fimilar in fhape to thofe of the 
male, but yellowifh and lefs diftorted, fig. 5. 
PISTILLUM : GzawzN ovate, almoft globular, fef- 
file; SrvrLz fcarcely any; Stigma forming 
two lips, yellowifh, the lips flightly bifid, 
finally of a reddifh black colour, fig. 4. 
The . 
