Tribe 16. The Theater of ‘Plants. 
2) j. Sal x humilu I at ifolia er Lipina reptns. 
The Creeping broad leafed and mounsaine Willow®... 
6 . Sallx &gyp‘i<ua & Syuua., 
The Egyptian Wilia w or of Syria. 
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leaves on both fidcs, yet but one at a place uluallyjcfpc- 7 ' atx ra lca vnilisfolljs Atriplitu. The Arabian dwarfe wiilovv; 
cially on the younger ftemmes and branches, but grow 
finaller on the elder, with fomc Idles with them alfo, 
grecne on the upper fide, and gray ifh underneath : at 
every j'oynt with the leafe ulually commeth forth a 
whitifli ball or tuft, ofafoftflocky fubftance. which 
by time is difperfed into the airc, without bearing any 
feede for ought that hath been obftrved, yet may be in 
that flocky matter,as is ufuall in many other plants chat 
beare flocky heads: but becaufe the flowers are very 
plentifull,and fweetc withall, the Natives diftill a wa¬ 
ter from them,whereof they make a great account, cal¬ 
ling it CATachaleb, ufing it as an elpeciall helpe for all 
forts of agues,but efpecially in pcftilentiall and putridc 
feavers, as alfo the infufton or decofrion of the flowers 
and for paines in the head and faintings of th. hcartjand 
the comforting and {lengthening thereof. 
7 . Sal ix Arabic a bumilin fslijs Atriplicis. 
The Arabian dwarfe Willow. 
This Arabian like wife oroweth low, with many pale 
yellowifli branches, but thicker,more folid and ftrong 
then the laft, bsfet on all fides with leaves, that areof 
an handbreadth long,and two inches broad, (omewhat 
jagged on the edges like unto a wild Arrache, what 
flowers or fruitc it bore, wasnotoblervcd, but of the 
coles of this fort of Willow, they make their beftGun- 
pouther. 
The Tlace and Time. 
Some of thefe forts are found in many places of this 
Land, as upon Hampflead Heath, Rumney Marfhcs and 
the like,although ClujrM, Lngdunenfis i and Battbinui, 
have recorded them to grow in Germany, Hungary ,and 
%avoy^c. The two laft according to their titles. 
