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A DISCOURSE 



BOOK I. the JBlack Withy, the Round Long- Sallow, the Longest Sallow, the Crack 

 "^"^'''^^ Willow, the Round-eared Shining A¥illow, the lesser Broad-leaved 

 Willow, Silver Sallow, Upright Broad Willow, Repent Broad-leaved, the 

 Redstone, the Lesser Willow, the Straight Dwarf, the Yellow Dwarf, 



11. SALIX (^hjElia J foliis serratis glabris lanceolato-linearibus, superioribus oppositis 

 obliquis. Lin. Sp. PI. 1444. Willow milh linear, spear-shaped, smooth, sawed leaves, the upper 

 of which are placed obliquely opposite. Salix liumilior, foliis angustis subcaeruleis ex adverso 

 binis. Rail Syn. 2. p. 297- '^^he rose willow. 



The Rose- Willow is of much lower growth than the former. The body of the tree is covered 

 with a rough, yellow bark. The branches are upright, tough, and of a reddish colour. Tlie 

 leaves are spear-shaped, narrow, smooth, of a blueish green colour, and, towards the upper 

 part of the branches, are nearly opposite to each other. The flowers come out from the sides 

 of the branches, and numbers of them are joined together in a rose like manner, forming a 

 singular and beautiful appearance. This however is not a flower, but an accidental excres- 

 cence, occasioned by a wound made in the bark of the tender branches by a certain fly, for 

 the reception of its egg, which soan produces a worm. This insect is minutely described by 

 Swammerdam in his " Book of Nature." Our old English botanists being unacquainted 

 with this part of natural history, supposed the tree a distinct species, and called it Salix 

 Rosea. 



12. Sx\LIX C CAPREA ) foliis ovatis rugosis, subtus tomentosis, undatis superne denticulatis, 

 Lin. Sp. PI. 1448. Willow with oval, rough leaves which are waved, woolly on their under side, 

 and indented towards the top. Salix latifolia rotunda. C. B. P. 474. The sallow. 



The Sallow is well known all over England, and delights in a dry rather than a moist soil. It 

 is a tree rather below the middle growth. The branches are brittle, smooth, of a dark 

 green colour, and their chief use is for hurdle-wood and the fire ; though the trunk, or old 

 wood, is admirable for several uses in the turnery way. The leaves are oval, rough, waved, 

 indented at the top, and woolly underneath. The catkins are very large and white ; they 

 appear early in the spring, and are much resorted to by the bees, on their first coming cut of 

 their hives at that early season. — There is a variety of this species with long leaves, which 

 end in acute points ; and another with smooth leaves, beautifully striped with white, called 

 the Striped Sallow. 



13. SALIX C HERMAPHRODiTicA ) follis serratis glabris, floribus hermaphroditis diandris. 

 Lin. Sp. PI. 1442. Salix latifolia folio splendente. Rail Syn. 450. The shining willow. 



This is a large growing tree, sending forth several slender branches, which hang down, and are 

 covered with a pale brown bark. The leaves are smooth, glandalous, serrated, and of a 

 yellowish green colour. The flowers are numerous hairy catkins, and the male flowers have 

 two stamina only. They appear early in the spring ; and the females are succeeded by 

 downy seeds, like the common Willow. 



14. SALIX (PHYLiciFOLiA) foliis serratis glabris lanceolatis : crenis undatis. Lin. Sp. 

 PI. 1442. The phylica-leaved willow. 



This is a tree of lower growth than the former. The branches are numerous, flexible, tough, 

 and serviceable for several articles in the basket-way. The leaves are spear-shaped, smoot!)> 



