Tbeatrnm ‘Botamcum , 
1430 Ch a p.29, 
1 . Suhxjrboiea anguft/folia alba vulgaris. 
The ordinary great white Willow tree. 
andbeare natrow Waves, into thofc ihat grow high, 
and beaic broad leaves,into the lower fort with broad 
le.'ves, and into the lower with narrow leaves, and fo 
I iLah comprehend the whole number of them; and 
yet I muff leperate the Spyrea of C/uJtm and the Vitex 
or /igitm raflus inco two chapters by the.nlelves. 
I. Salix arborea angufttfolia alba vulgaru. 
Ti e ordinary great white Willow tree. 
Our ordinary white Willow groweth quickely to 
be a great and tall tree,if it be 110c lopped as it is ufuall 
in mod placet, with a Itnboth white barke on the bo¬ 
dy,and bigger branches, the younger fprfoges, being 
fomewhac greene with the whiteneffe, the icaves are 
long and narrow,pale greene on the upper fide, and of 
a flrining filver white colour underneath, without any 
dent on the edges, theflowers come forth before the 
leaves a ppeare, and are fmalllong and round, yellow 
molfie heads,ftnclling (weete for the mod part, divers 
(landing one above another, on a longfia.ke, which in 
time turne unto downe, that is biowr.e away with the 
winds,and the (eede with it if it have any : the wood 
is foft and white,and with the branches hereof cut in¬ 
to long (lickes ate made flakes for hedges, or to uphold 
Vines,&c. 
2. Sa/ix anguftifolia purpurea feu nigra. 
The ordinary blacke Willow. 
The blacke Willow differed! from the former white 
not growing fo great or high, and that thebarkeis 
morerough andof adarke reddifh colour, the bran¬ 
ches lithy andeafic to bend, as whereof hopes are made 
to binde caskes, the leaves likewife arc narrower and 
blacker,and wood not fo white. 
Tr IB K l6 
3. Salix rojea. T he Rofc Willow. 
y. Salia VimiMlis nigra. The blacke Wlthye. 
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