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DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Salix. 
(1) Leaves smooth , serrated. 
(1. S. purpu'rea. Monandrous; decumbent; leaves inversely-egg- 
spear-shaped, serrated, smooth: stigmas very short, egg-shaped, 
nearly sessile. 
E. Bot. 1388. 
A shrub three or four feet high. It differs from S. Helix in its spreading, 
decumbent habit, never growing up into a tree; the rich purple of its 
branches , and the somewhat deeper hue of its leaves, and especially by 
having much more small and slender catkins, a more elliptical germen , 
and small, egg-shaped, obtuse, nearly sessile stigmas. Leaves sometimes 
opposite. Floral-scales small, blunt, and black. Bark very bitter. FI. 
Brit, and E. Bot. 
Bitter Purple Willow. S. purpurea of Linn, hitherto confounded with 
S. Helix, but a much rarer plant. In marshes and by the sides of rivers. 
In King-street meadows, Norwich. Mr. Crowe; now scarcely to be 
found there. Smith. Peakirk and Thurnby, Northamptonshire; and 
between Yauxhall and Nine Elms, by the Thames side. Martyn. About 
Beverley. Teesdale. N. bank of the Tweed, opposite Melrose. Hook. 
Scot. S. March. E.)* 
2. S. Helix. Monandrous, erect; leaves strap-spear-shaped, smooth, 
serrulated: (style elongated, thread-shaped: summits strap¬ 
shaped. FI. Brit. E.) 
( [E. Bot. 1343— Curt. E.)— Hoffm. Sal. 1. and 5. 1— Fuchs. 334— Ger. Em. 
1389. 
( Twigs very smooth and polished, pale yellowish or purplish ash-colour. 
Leaves opposite or alternate on the same plant; the former is a rare cir¬ 
cumstance in this genus. Fruit-stalks short. Stipulce none. A dis¬ 
tinguishing character is the leaf being much drawn out towards the base 
into a strap shape. A little pubescence on the youngest leaves only, 
the older are quite smooth, of a light, rather glaucous green. Barren 
Catkins an inch long, or shortish stalks. Scales concave tipped with 
black. Nectary oblong, entire. Stamen with a four-lobed anther. 
Fertile Catkins thicker and with broader scales. Germen sessile, ovate, 
silky. Style very perceptibly projecting, smooth, with linear, at length, 
cloven, stigmas. 
S. purpurea, which Hoffman and Curtis confound with this, is a much rarer 
plant. E. Bot. (Hooker is inclined to consider them the same. E.) 
Rose Willow. (Welsh: Helygen gyferbynddail. E.) S. Helix. Linn. 
S. monandra. With. Ed. 4. Hedges, watery places, and sides of rivers, 
osier beds, frequent. E.) S. April—May.t 
* (A very valuable osier for fine basket-work, but more especially for platting into 
low close fences, to keep out hares and rabbits, the leaves and bark being so intensely 
bitter that those animals will not touch either. The twigs are so long, tough, and flexible, 
that they may be interwoven into any shape. Sm. E.) 
t Baskets, cradles, bird cages, and all sort of twig work, are made of its long, slender, 
and flexible shoots. (In consequence of the deposition of the eggs of a Cynips in the ex- 
