SALIX TRIANDRA. LTHREE-THREADED WILLOW. 
SALIX Lin. Gen. Fl. D1ozciA DianprRia. 
. Masc. Amenti{quame. Cor. 0. Glandula bafeos ne&arifera. 
Fam. Amentz {quame. Cor. o. Stylus 2-fidus, Caff. i-locularis; 2-valvis.- 
Sem. pappofa. 
Rai Syn. Gen. ARBORES ET FRUTICES. 
SALIX rendra foliis ferratis glabris, floribus triandris. Lin. Sy/l. Vegetab. p. 879. Sp. Pl. p. 1442. 
SALIX folus glabris, elliptico-lanceolatis, 
Hall. Hifl. n. 1697.. 
ferratis; ftipulis dentatis; julis gracilibus triandris. 
SALIX iriandra. Scopoli Fl. Carn. ed. 2. $. 259. 
SALIX folio amygdalino utrinque virente aurito. Bauh. Pin. 473. 
SALIX folio amygdalino utrinque aurito corticem abjiciens, Almond-Leaved Willow that cafls its 
Bark. Raz Syn. ed. 3. b. 448. 
SALIX folio auriculato fplendente flexilis. Rag Syn. ed. 3. f. 448. The round-ear'd Shining 
" Willow. Hud/. Fl. Angl. ed. 2. f. 425. 

FRUTEX orgyalis et ultra, in arbufculum medio- 
crem nonnunquam exfurgens, corticem quo- ; 
tannis abjiciens, undique ramofus. 
RAMI ere&i, fubvirgati, teretes, verfus fummitates 
. angulati, profunde fulcati, tenaces, flexiles 
aut etiam fragiles prefertim ad genicula, : 
cOrtice e cinereo aut fufco virefcente aut 
flavefcente, foliofi. 
FOLIA alterna, longitudine tripollicaria, latitudine 
fere pollicaria, in ramis jitueapus triplo $ 
errata, ferraturis 3 
carülagineis, prominentibus, glabra, niten- 4 
majora, lanceolata, acuta, 
' tia, fupra faturate viridia, fubtus pallidiora, 
nervo medio albido, prominulo, bafi glan- i 
dulis aliquot fzpius occupata, petiolata, pe- 
tiolo femunciali, canaliculato. 
STIPUL in quibufdam ramis nulle, in plerifque 
binz ad bafin petioli, auriformes, rugotz, * 
crenulate, fuperne glandulofe.. 
AMENTA ma/cula numerofa, ante anthefin longi- 
tudine fere pollicaria, fubcylindracea, to- ; 
mento fericeo obducta, lutefcente-viridia, 3 
odorata, poft pollinis emiffionem longitudine : 
bipollicaria et ultra: foliola quinque lanceo- 5 
lata, utrinque nitentia, pilofa, fubtus palli- ; 
diora ad bafin cujufvis amenti. 
SQUAMA ad bafin finguli floris pallide viridis, parum 
rugofa, margine apiceque pilofa, fg. 1. 
STAMINA: FiLAMENTA plerumque tria, füb. polli- 
nis emiffione fquamà duplo longiora; An- 
THER fubrotunde, biloculares, lutefcen- à 
tes, fir. 9. 
NECTARIUM: Glandula minuta, truncata, ad ger- 
minis bafin, fig. 3. 
AMENTA feminea numero et longitudine mafculis 
fimilia, illis viridiora et minus fpe¢tabilia, 
. SQUAMAS obtufe, rugofe, lutefcentes, fub floref- 
centia ad dimidiam germinis altitudinem + 
attingentes, fig. 4. 
GERMEN oblongum, acuminatum, fg. 5. 
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STIGMATA duo, brevia, obtufa, horizontalia, bi- 
fida, fiz. 6. 
A SHRUB fix feet or more in height, fometimes 
growing up to a middle-fized tree, cafting 
its bark yearly, branched on all fides. 
BRANCHES upright, fomewhat twiggy, towards the 
extremity angular or deeply grooved, tough, 
flexible, or even brittle, efpecially at the 
joints, covered with an afh-coloured, brown- 
 ifh-green, or yellowifh bark, thickly fet with 
leaves. 
& LEAVES alternate, three inches in length, and al- 
moft one in breadth, in the younger branches 
thrice as large, lanceolate, pointed and fer- 
rated, the ferratures or teeth cartilaginous 
and prominent, fmooth, glofly, of a deep 
green colour above and pale beneath, the 
midrib whitifh, and fomewbat prominent, 
moft commonly befet with fome glands at 
the bafe, {landing on footftalks, half an inch 
in length, fcooped. 
STIPULA in fome of the branches none, but in 
moft a pair at the bafe of the leaf-ftalk, ear- 
fhaped, wrinkled, notched and glandular on 
the upper fide. 
CATKINS of the male plant. numerous, before the 
antherz put forth almoft an inch long, nearly 
cylindrical, covered with a filky down, ofa 
yellowifh green colour; when all the an- 
therz have fhed their pollen, they extend 
two inches or more in length: five fmall 
lanceolate leaves, gloffy on both fides, hairy 
and fomewhat paler on the under fide, are 
placed at the bafe of each catkin. | 
The SCALE at the bafe of each floret, is of an uni- 
form pale green colour, hairy on both edges 
as well as the tip, and fomewhat wrinkled, 
& ig. 1. 
& STAMINA: FinAMENTS moftly three, becoming 
T on the fhedding of the pollen as long again 
as the fcale; ANTHER# roundifh, yellow 
is and bilocular, fag. 2. 
& NECTARY: a minute Glandule, truncated, at the 
ü bafe of the Germen, fv. 9. 
= CATKINS of the female, fimilar in number and length 
* to thofe of the male, but greener and lefs 
T Íhew lee : 
& SCALES obtufe, wrinkled, yellowifh, when pro- 
: perly in bloflom extending half way up the 
& germen, fg. 4. 
+ GERMEN oblong, tapering, jig. 5. 
$ STIGMATA two, fhort, obtufe, fpreading horizon- 
] tally, and bifid, fie. 6. 
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