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Salix, Liim. 
653. S. babylonica, Linn. — Weeping Willow ; wild and com- 
mon ; grows to a tree thirty feet high in the mountain streams, and 
at Napoleon’s Tomb ; whence it has attained such notoriety. It is 
said that the two willow trees at the tomb have been carried away, 
piece by piece, as Napoleonic relics, two or three times over, and that 
those now growing there are the great grandchildren of the original 
trees. The foliage is used as food for cattle, when grass becomes 
scarce during dry weather. Alt. 2 to 4. — Hab. Levant. 
654. S. viminalis, Linn. — Osier; recently introduced from the 
Eoyal Gardens at Kew. 
100. Conifers {Pine Family). 
Abies, Loud. 
655. A. Smithiana, Loud. — Recently introduced from the Royal 
Gardens at Kew. — Hab. Mountains of India, and Japan. 
Araucaria, Juss. 
656. A. excelsa, R. Br. — This stately tree, the Norfolk Island 
Pine, may be seen at Plantation Gardens, Mount Pleasant, and 
other places, towering above grand old oak trees that would not be 
despised anywhere. There are eight or ten full-grown trees, and a 
large number of young ones, recently raised from seed of the former, 
and planted out in various situations both on the high and low 
lands. One of these trees at Plantation, said to be sixty-two years 
old, rises as straight as an arrow from the ground to a height of 
one hundred and ten feet, tapering from ten feet three inches in 
circumference near the bottom to a few inches at the top. It sheds 
its seeds abundantly, but not until ten years ago did they germinate ; 
now they do so without care or cultivation. — Hab. Norfolk Island. 
657. A. brasiliensis, Rich. — There are three of this beautiiul 
tree in the Island, one growing at Plantation House, one at Rose 
Cottage, and the other at Rosemary Hall. H. L. Alt. 3'7o to 4. 
There is no record showing when they were introduced, and 
Roxburgh gives no notice of them in his list of plants. Hr. Hooker, 
however, observed them in 1840 as large trees, so that they have 
probably been there fifty years, or upwards. They have attained a 
