CHAMPLAIN WILLOW. 
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Upon the trunk the bark is grayish and finely chapped; upon the roots 
it is of a dark brown,, whence may have been derived the specific name of 
the tree. The roots afford an intensely bitter decoction, which is consid- 
ered in the country as a purifier of the blood, and as a preventive and 
remedy for intermittent fevers. 
The wood is white and soft, and the branches are easily broken from the 
tree. Neither the wood nor the twigs are applied to any useful purpose. 
PLATE CXXV. 
Fig. 1 , Leaves of the natural size. 
[See Nuttall’s Supplement, Vol. 1, for a great number of Willows found 
in the countries bordering on our Pacific coast. See also Emerson’s Trees 
and Shrubs of Massachusetts. 
The Black Willow is known to basket-makers as the “ Wicker Willow.”] 
CHAMPLAIN WILLOW, 
Salix ligustrina. S. foliis lanceolato-linearihus , acuminatis , serratis ; stipulis 
incequaliter cordatis *; petiolis villosis. 
I have found this Willow on the shores of Lake Champlain, particularly 
near the village of Skeensborough. It is about 25 feet high and 7 or 8 
inches in diameter: its first aspect resembles that of the Black Willow, 
but its leaves are longer, narrower, and accompanied at the base by cordi- 
form, serrate stipulæ. Its wood and branches are appropriated to no use. 
PLATE CXXV. 
Fig. 2, Leaves of the natural size. 
