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Tcfembling a fmall Tingle Rofe, both in their petals, 
and divifions of their flower cups which are villous, 
and terminate in leaffy elongations. This grows na- 
turally on rocky mountains in Pennfylvania and Vir- 
ginia, and makes an agreeable appearance by a long 
fucceflion of rofe-fliaped flowers. 
S A L I X. 
The WILLOW-TREE. 
Clafs 22. Order 2. Dioecia Diandria. 
^ r 'T l HE Male Flowers are difpofed in a common, oblong, im 
T bricated katkin, with an involucrum formed of the bud. 
The Scales are one-flowered, oblong, plain, and fpread- 
ing. 
It hath no petals; but a very fmall, cylindrical, truncat- 
ed, honey-bearing Gland, or Neftarium, in the cen- 
ter of the flower. 
The Filaments are two, ftraight, and thread form. The An- 
therce are twin, and four-cell’ d. 
% The Female have a katkin and fcales as the male. 
The Petals none. 
The Germen ovate, and leflened into a Style fcarce diftinft, fome- 
what longer than the Scales of the flower-cup. The Stigmas 
two, bifid and ereft. 
The Seed-vejjel a capfnle , ovate-awl-ihaped, of one cell and two 
valves : the valves revolute. 
The Seeds are numerous, ovate, very fmall, and crowned with 
a Ample hairy Pappus. 
' The Species, native with us , are , 
# With fmooth ferrated leaves . 
1. Salxx nigra. Rough American Willow. 
This rifes often with a leaning or crooked trunk 
to the height of about twenty feet, covered with a 
dark 
