PL ex. mon. 
3. TAXIDE.E. 5. Taxus. 
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Mountainous woods and hedges. 
Stem erect ; branches horizontal, 2-rowed ; leaves very 
dark green, smooth, narrow, unarmed ; receptacle light red. 
Fam. IV. 4. SAUCING. Mirbell. 
Flowers unisexual, amentaceous ; scales imbricate, one» 
flowered ; perigoniam free, scalelike or tubular. — Male. 
Stamens I to 30 ; anthers 2-celled. — Female. Ovary free; 
style 1, simple; stigmata 2 to 4 ; capsule 1 or 2-celled, 
2-valved, many-seeded ; seeds comose ; spermodermis mem- 
branaceous ; peris perm 0 ; corculum straight. — Trees or 
shrubs ; leaves alternate, deciduous, when young having 2 
stipules at their base. 
Stamens 2 to 5 ; capsule 1 -celled ; 
leaves ovate or lanceolate Salix. 6. 
Stamens 8 to 30 ; capsule 2-celled ; 
leaves angular, peduncle compressed Populus. 7. 
I. 6. SALIX. Pliny. Willow. 
Dioicous, rarely monoicous ; ament ovate or cylindrical ; 
scales imbricate, lanceolate ; perigonium scalelike. — Male. 
Stamens 2 or 3, rarely I or 5. — Female. Ovary round, 
pointed, spiked; style 2-cut; stigmata 2; capsule (follicule?) 
1 -celled ; seed upright, comose ; radicle below. 
The willows are here arranged first by their ovaries, 
whether sessile or pedicelled ; then by their styles, whether 
short or long : to which succeed those whose female aments 
have not vet been found. A mode of division proposed by 
Dr. Hull: 
a. Ovary sessile; style short . 
1 . Salix purpurea . Purple willow. 
Stamens monadelphous ; leaves obovate lanceolate, ser- 
rated, smooth ; stem decumbent ; stigmata ovate, nearly 
sessile. 
Salix purpurea, Lin. S. P. 1444. 
Salix monandra, Ard. Mem. 1, 64. 
Near rivers; shrubby; March. 
Branches very tough, purple; leaves glaucous below, 
very bitter : petioles short ; ament very slender ; ovary silky. 
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