Salix Monandra, 
Bitter Willow. 
SALIX Lin. Gen. PL Dioecia Diandrta. 
Masc. Amenti fquamie. Cor. o. Glandula, bafeos ne&arifera. 
F^em. Amenti fquamae. Cor. o. Stylus 2-fidus. Cap/, l-locularis, 2-vaivisi 
Sent, pappofa. 
Raii Syn. Gen. 28. Arbores et Frutices* 
SALIX monandra foliis ferratis, glabris, lineari-lanceolatis, fuperioribus obliquis. Hoffman hi/l ; 
Salic, p. 18. 
SALIX purpurea foliis ferratis glabris lanceolatis : inferioribus oppofitis. Lin. Syjl. Vegetal, p. 870. 
Sp. Pl. p. 1444. FI. Suec. n. 8S4. 
SALIX Helix foliis ferratis glabris lanceolato-linearibus : fuperioribus oppofitis obliquis. Lin. Syfl. 
Vegetal, p. 879. Sp. Pl. 1444. 
SALIX monandra, foliis glabris, lineari-lanceolatis, ferratis, fuperne conjugatis, julis tomentofis* 
Hali. hi/l. n. 1640. 
SALIX purpurea. Scopoli FI. Carn. n. 1209. Diagn .fquamce monandrce. 
SALIX monandra. Arduin. Memor. 1. Spec. 67. tab. n. 
SALIX humilior foliis anguflis fubcaeruleis ex adverfo binis. Raii Syn. 448. The yellow dwarf 
Willow. 
SALIX Helice Theophrajli Lugdun. p. 277. Hudf. FI. Angi. ed. 2. p. 427. Lightfoot FI. Scot. 
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FRUTEX mediocris, debilis, ramofus, in arbufculum f 
nobifcum ftepe excrefcens, in feptentrionali | 
parte Anglize multo humilior. 
RAMI tenues, teretes, viminei, tenaciflimi, nitidi, $ 
cortice cinereo, olivaceo. feiL.purpurafcente, $ 
nobifcum raro intenfe purpureo. £ 
$ 
FOLIA nunc oppofita, nunc alterna, idque in eadem t 
f ilanta, petiolata, lanceolata, verfus apicem $ 
atiora, apice acuta, bafi obtufa, femunciam f 
circiter lata, multo etiam latiora, fig. 6. et an- $ 
guftiora occurrunt, margine nunc undique f 
ferrata, nunc fuperne tantum, etiam integer- | 
rima, laevia, fuperne e caeruleo viridia, fubtus $ 
glauca, idque femper quoad obfervavimus, f 
avenia, nervo medio albido, glandulis defti- |. 
tuta, faporc amariffimo. 
% 
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$ 
PETIOLUS brevis, bafi latior. | 
f 
AMENTA mafcula plurima, fubterminalia, nunc op- % 
pofita, idque alterne, nunc alterna, fubfef- £ 
filia, pollicaria, cylindracea, compa&a, e- | 
re&iufcula, fepe incurvata, primum e rufo- * 
nigricantia, lanugine incana, exfertis an- & 
theris pulchre aurantiaca; fquamce fubro- % 
tundee, concavae, pilofae, ad medium ufque $ 
nigras, intus faspe rubella, demum reflexee, f 
fg. 1. I 
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STAMEN : Filamentum unicum, fquama duplo | 
longius, filiforme, pilofum ; Anthera ma- £ 
jufcula, fig. 2, quadrangula, quadriloba , f 
primo aurantiaca, dein flava, demum nigri- 4 | 
cans. h 
Y 
NECTARIUM : Glandula truncata, emarginata, fla- l, 
vefcens, feflile, fig. 3. 
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AMENTA fceminea, mafculis quoad formam fimilia, $ 
at flavefcentia, et minus contorta, fig. 5. | 
PISTILLUM: Germen ovatum, fubglobofum, fef- | 
file; Stylus vix ullus; Stigma bilabiatum, | 
flavefcens, labiis emarginato bifidis, demum * 
e rufo nigricantibus, fig. 4. 
A SHRUB of a middling fize, weak, branched, with 
us often growing up into a fmall tree, in the 
North of England of much humbler growth* 
BRANCHES flender, round, twiggy, extremely 
tough, glofly, the bark afli-coloured, olive, 
or purplifh, feldom of a deep purple with us. 
LEAVES now oppofite, now alternate, and that in 
the fame plant. Handing on footftalks, lan- 
ceolate, broadeft towards the tip, pointed 
at the end, obtufe at the bafe, about half an 
inch in breadth, but much broader,^. 6. and 
much narrower leaves occur, the edge fome- 
times ferrated throughout, fometimes above 
only, even perfedlly entire, fmooth, above of 
a blueifh green colour, beneath glaucous, and 
that always as far as we have obferved, 
veinlefs, the midrib whitifli, without glands,- 
and of an extremely bitter tafie. 
LEAF-STALK, fhort, broadeft; at the bafe. 
CATKINS of the male plant numerous, fomewhat 
terminal, fometimes oppofite, and that al- 
ternately fo, fometimes alternate, nearly fef- 
file, about an inch in length, cylindrical, 
compaft, nearly upright, often bowed, at 
firft of a reddifli black colour, covered with 
a grey down, when the antherse put forth, 
of a beautiful orange ; fcales roundifh, con- 
cave, hairy, black as far as the middle, 
often reddilh withinfide, finally reflexed, 
fig- 1- 
STAMEN : one Filament twice the length of the 
fcale, filiform, hairy; Anthera largilh, 
fig. 2, quadrangular, compofed of four lobes, 
at firft orange-coloured, then yellow, laflly 
blackilh. 
NECTARY: a Gland truncated, emarginate, yel- 
lowifh, and feflile, fig. 3. 
CATKINS of the female, fimilar in fhape to thofe of the 
male, but yellowifh and lefs diftorted, fig. 5. 
PISTILLUM: Germen ovate, almoft globular, fef- 
file; Style fcarcely any ; Stigma forming 
two lips, yellowifh, the lips flightly bifid, 
finally of a reddifli black colour, fig. 4. 
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