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rough, low pastures,, near Watton, Norfolk. Smith. Queen’s College 
Grove, Cambridge. Relhan. Banks of the Tean and Tyne, Northum¬ 
berland, Durham. Mr. Winch. At Stoke Newington, Middlesex. Mr. 
J. Woods, jun. ditto. Thurnby, and Sir J. Shaw’s Decoy, Northampton¬ 
shire. Moreton f Near Henley, Oxon. Sibthorpe. (Banks of Clyde, 
frequent. Hopkirk. Near Dumbarton, fertile plant. Maughan. Hook. 
Scot. E.) T. May.* 
20. S. fra'gilis. Leaves egg-spear-shaped: leaf-stalks toothed, glan¬ 
dular : (nectary of the barren flower double. FI. Brit. Germen 
ovate, nearly sessile. E.) 
( E.Bot . 1807. E .)—Woodv. 198 —Hunt. Evel. 245. i. p.238. ed. ii.—Fl. 
Lapp. 8 . 6. a leaf only. 
A tall tree. The branches so fragile as to break if even slightly struck. 
Fruit-stalks with two or three leaves at the base, often deciduous. 
{Leaves very smooth. Barren Floivers with an abortive germen. The 
tree remarkable for the oblique position of its branches. E. Bot. E.) 
Crack ^W illow. (Welsh: Helygenfrau. E.) Woods, hedges, and banks 
of rivers. Near Shottisham, Norfolk. Mr. Crowe. (At Trejorwcrth, 
Dinam, &c. in Anglesey. Welsh Bot. At Mill-bank, Westminster. 
E. Bot. E.) T. April—May.t 
(21. S. tenuifo'lia. Leaves elliptical, acute, serrated, rather smooth, 
glaucous beneath : stipulse small or none : capsules very smooth. 
FI. Brit. 
E. Bot. 2186— FI. Lapp. t. 8. f. e. 
From one to two feet high, very much branched and spreading. Branches 
reddish; the younger ones pubescent, with very short down, and bent 
inwards. Leaves elliptical, rather pointed, slightly serrated, besprinkled 
when young with fine close-pressed hairs ; bright green above ; glaucous 
and whitish beneath, reticulated with veins; the rib sometimes hairy. 
Barren Catkins yellowish, an inch long, with very hairy scales. Stamens 
two. In the wild fertile shrub the catkins are finally an inch and a half 
long, with egg-spear-shaped, smooth, sessile capsules, a long style , and 
rather thick, notched stigmas. Pubescence variable. FI. Brit, and E. Bot. 
* The shoots are used by crate and basket makers. The wood is white, and 
very tough. (One of the most ornamental of Willows, even in winter, when its golden 
branches materially enliven the sombre aspect of shrubberies. Like S. aquatica, this 
and several other species, may, during a scarcity of rags, be converted to the use of the 
paper maker. At Turin the fabrication of paper, both for writing, printing, and wrap¬ 
ping, from the thin bark of willows and poplar trees, has been fully approved and 
sanctioned by the Academy of Sciences. E.) 
t It w'ill thrive in most kinds of soil, if they be sufficiently moist. It is a quick 
grower, and bears cropping. The White Satin Moth sometimes devours all its leaves. 
(S. viminalis, triandra, saidfragilis , are particularly subject to the depredations of Aphis 
Salicis, one of the largest English species, which infests both trunks and branches. 
“ The bodies of these insects contain a red liquor, and hence persons employed in 
stripping osiers have their hands rendered apparently bloody by unavoidably bruising 
them.” See Curtis in Linn. Tr. v. 6. where many curious particulars may be learnt. 
The reputation the bark of this Willow has obtained for the cure of agues, should rather 
be transferred to S. Russelliana , with which, till lately, S. fragiiis has been confounded. 
The root is said to be used in Sweden for staining eggs purple, for Easter festivals j au 
ancient custom, vestiges of which may still be traced in Scotland. E.) 
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