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SA'LIX* * 
Linnean Class and Order. Dice'cia f, Dia'ndria +. 
Natural Order. Salici'neas, Rich, by Macgilliv. p. 543. — 
Lindl. Intr. to Nat. Syst. p. 98. — Salica'ce.-e, Loud. Arboret. et 
Frutic. Brit. v. iii. p. 1453. — Amenta'ce.e, Linn. — Juss. Gen. PI. 
p. 407. — Srn. Gram, of Bot. p. 189. — Loud. Hort. Brit. p. 534. — 
Mack. FI. Hibern. p.242. — Hook. Brit. FI. (4th edit.) p. 419. — 
Querneales ; sect. Quercinje ; type, Salicacea: ; Burn. Outl. 
of Bot. pp. 523 & 526. 
Gen. Char. Flowers dioecious, very seldom monoecious. Sterile 
Flower (see figs. 1 & 2). Catkin oblong, many-flowered, imbri- 
cated every way. Calyx (fig. 2.) a single-flowered, oblong, spread- 
ing, flexible scale. Petals none. Nectary a small, lateral, oblong, 
blunt, compressed, honey-bearing gland, sometimes double. Fila- 
ments (see fig. 2.) usually 2, rarely 1, or from 3 to 5, or more, 
straight, thread-shaped, longer than the calyx ; in some partly com- 
bined. Anthers 2-lobed, of 2 or 4 cells. Fertile Flower (see figs. 
3 & 4). Catkin and Calyx as in the sterile flower. Germen (see 
fig. 4.) superior, egg-shaped, sessile or stalked. Style terminal, 
permanent. Stigmas 2, notched and obtuse, or cloven and acute, 
spreading. Capsule (see figs. 5 & 6.) egg-shaped, blunt, or taper- 
ing, of 1 cell, and 2 valves. Seeds numerous, minute, oval, tufted, 
with soft, simple, upright hairs. 
The entire scale of the calyx, destitute of a corolla; the sterile 
flowers with from 1 to 5 stamens, or sometimes more, with 1 or 
more glands close to them ; the fertile flowers with 1 pistil, either 
sessile or stalked, with 1 or more glands inserted close to it ; and 
the 1 -celled, 2-valved capsule ; will distinguish this from other 
genera, with imbricated catkins, in the same class and order. 
Seventy species British. 
SA'LIX PURPU'REA. Purple Willow. Bitter Purple Willow. 
Spec. Char. Monandrous. Branches decumbent. Leaves 
spear-shaped, broadest upwards, tapering below, serrated, smooth. 
Germens egg-shaped, very pubescent, sessile. Stigma egg-shaped, 
nearly sessile. 
Engl. Bot. t. 1388. — Salict. Wob. p. 1. t. 1. — Linn. Sp. PI. p. 1144. ; FI. Suec. 
p. 347. — Huds. FI. Angl. (2nd edit.) p. 427. — Willd. Sp. PI. v. iv. pt. II. p. 672. — 
Sm. FI. Brit. v. iii. p. 1039. ; Engl. FI. v. iv. p. 187. — With. (7th ed.) v. ii. p. 56. — 
Gray’s Nat. Arr. v. ii. p. 227. — Lindl. Syn. p. 232. — Hook. Brit. FI. p. 413. — 
Macr. Man. Brit. Bot. p. 212. — Loud. Arb. et Frutic. Brit. v. iii. p. 1490. figs. 1294 
and f. 1. in p. 1603. — Lightf. FI. Scot. v. ii. p. 598. — Relh. FI. Cant. (3rd ed. ) p. 
402. — Trans, of Linn. Soc. v. vi. p. 113. — Purt. Midi. FI. v. iii. p. 74. — Hook. FI. 
Scot. p. 277. — FI. Devon, pp. 156 & 133. — Walker’s FI. of Oxf. p. 289. — Irv. Loud. 
FI. p. 286. — Cow. FI. Guide, p. 46. — Baines’ FI. of Yorksh. p. 92. — Mack. Catal. of 
PI. of Irel. p. 84. ; FI. Hibern. p.243. — Salix monandra, Curt. FI. Loud. t. . 
f. 5. — Abbot’s FI. Bedf. p. 212. — Salix rubra, minima: fragilis, folio longo 
angusto, Bauh. Hist. v. i. pt. n. p. 215. 
Fig. 1. Catkin of Sterile Flowers. — Fig. 2. A single Sterile Flower. — Fig. 3. 
Catkin of Fertile Flowers. — Fig. 4. A single Fertile Flower. — Fig. 5. Capsule, with 
seed. — Fig. 6. The same after the seed has escaped. — Fig. 7. Branch in leaf. — 
Figs. 2, 4, 5, & 6, magnified. 
* From sal, near ; and l is, water, in Celtic. 
■\ See folio 143, note t. J See folio OO, note t. 
