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OF FOREST-TREES. 247 



Gallic, Sabinian, Amerine, &c. better distinguished by their growth CHAP. XX. 

 and bark, and by Latin authors all comprehended under that of Salices, '"^^^^'^ 

 our English books reckon them promiscuously thus : The Common 

 White Willow, the Black, and the Hard Black, the Rose of Cambridge, 



opposite. Salix folio longo subluteo non auriculato, viminibus rubris. Rail Syn. 450.—- 

 The purple willow. 



This is a tree of middling_size ; the shoots are very pliable, and fit for the basket-maker, which 

 recommends it for the Ozier grounds ; they are of a reddish colour ; the leaves are spear- 

 shaped, smooth, and sawed on their edges: those on the lower part of the branches are 

 placed opposite, but on the upper they are alternate, and of a yellowish green. 



S. SALIX CriMiNALis J foliis subintegerrimis lanceolato-linearibus longissimis acutis 

 subtus sericeis, ramis virgatis. Lin. Sp, PI, 14i48. Willow with the longest, linear, spear- 

 shaped, acute leaves, which are almost entire, and silky on their under side, and rod-like branches. 

 Salix foliis angustis et longissimis crispis subtus albicantibus. J, B. i, p. 212. Willow 

 with the longest, narrow, curled leaves, which are white on their under side. The ozier. 



The Ozier is a tree of low growth, though the shoots grow amazingly long and strong in one 

 year from the stools. The leaves are spear-shaped, narrow, long, acute, [almost entire, 

 of a blueish green on their upper side and hoary underneath, and grow on very short foot- 

 stalks, 1'his is the most propagated of all the kinds for basket- making : It admits of several 

 sorts of difftrent value, but all are useful to the basket-maker. The varieties usually go by 

 the names of the Green Ozier, the Old Basket Ozier, Welsh Wicker, &c. 



9. SALIX ( RUBRA ) foliis integerrimis glabris lineari-lanceolatis acutis. Huds. Flor. 

 Angl. 428. Willow uith entire, linear, spear-shaped, smooth leaves. Salix minime fragilis foliis 

 longissimis iitrinque viridibus, non serratis. Raii Syn. 449. The least brittle Willow, with 

 very long leaves which are green on both sides, and not sawed. The red willow. 



This sort having very pliant branches, is much planted in the Ozier grounds. The leaves are 

 very long ; are spear-shaped and entire, and green on both sides. It grows to a middling 

 size, if planted in moist land. 



10. SALIX fBABYLONicA ) foliis serratis glabris lineari-lanceolatis, ramis pendulis. — 

 Lin. Sp. PI. 1443. Willow with smooth, sawed, linear, spear-shaped leaves, and hanging branches. 

 Salix Orientalis, flagellis deorsum pulchre pendentibus. Tourn. Cor. 41. The Babylo- 

 nian, or WEEPING WILLOW. 



The Weeping Willow of Babylon grows to a considerable size. Its branches are long, slender, 

 and pendulous, which makes it proper to be planted upon the banks of rivers, ponds, and 

 over springs ; the leaves are long and narrow; and when any mist or dew falls, a drop of 

 water is seen hanging at their extremities, v/hich, together with the banging branches, gives 

 this tree a most mournful look. On that account, garlands of forsaken lovers were made 



of the twigs of this Willow. " 1 offered him my company to a Willow-tree, to make him 



a garland as being forsaken." — shakspeare. 



It is probable that under those trees the children of Israel mourned their captivity. " By the 

 rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept when we remembered Zion : We hanged 

 our harps upon the Willows in the midst thereof." — psalms. 



