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OF FOREST-TREES.

Gallic, Sabinian , Amerine, &c. better distinguished by their growth chap.

and bark, and by Latin authors all comprehended under that of Salices,our books reckon them promiscuously thus: The Common

our

White Willow, the Black, and the Hard Black, the Rofe of Cambridge,

opposite. Salix folio longo subluteo non auriculato, viminibus rubris. Raii Syn. 450.—The purple willow.

This is a tree of middling size; the shoots are very pliable, and fit for the basket-maker, whichrecommends it for the Ozier grounds; they are of a reddish colour; the leaves are spear-'shaped, smooth, and sawed on their edges: those on the lower part of the branches areplaced opposite, but on the upper they are alternate, and of a yellowish green.

8. SALIX (nmNALis) foliis subintegerrimis lanceolato-linearibus longifsimis acutissubtus sericeis, ramis virgatis. Lin. Sp. PI. 1448. Willow with the longest, linear spear-shaped, acute leaves, which are almost entire, and silky on their under side, and rod-like branches .—Salix foliis angustis et longifsimis crispis subtus albicantibus. J-.B. i. p. 212. Willowwith the longest , narrow, curled leaves, which are white on their under side. The ozier.

The Ozier is a tree of losv growth, though the shoots grow amazingly long and Strong in oneyear from the stools. The leaves are spear-sliaped, narrow, long, acute; ^almost entire,of a blueish green on their upper side and hoary underneath, ami grow on very short foot-stalks. This is the most propagated of all the kinds for basket-making; It admits of several.sorts of different value, but all are useful to the basket-maker. The varieties usually go:by the names of the Green Ozier, the Old Basket Ozier, Welsh Wicker, &c.

9. SALIX (rubra) foliis integerrimis glabris lineari-lanceolatis acutis. Huds. Flolr.Angl. 428. IVillow with entire, linear spear-shaped, smooth leaves. Salix minime fragilis foliislongifsimis utrinque viridibus, non serratis. Raii Syn. 449., The. least brittle IVillow, withvery long leaves which are green on both sides, and not sawed. The red willow.

This sort having very pliant branches, is much planted in tire Ozier grounds;' The leaver arevery long; are spear-shaped and entire, and green on both sides. It grows to a middlingsize, if planted in moist land.

10. SALIX (babylonica) foliis serratis glabris lineari-lanceolatis, ramis pendulis.—Lin. Sp. PL 1443. Willow with smooth, sawed, linear spear-shaped leaves, and hanging branches .—Salix Orientals, flagellis deorsum pulchre pendentibns. Tourn. Cor. 41. The babvlo-XIAN, O’ WEEPING- WILLOW.’

The Weeping Willow of Babylon grows to a considerable size. Its branches are long, slender,and pendulous, which makes it proper to be planted upon the banks of rivers, ponds, andover springs; the leaves are long and narrow; and when any mist or dew falls, a drop,of water is seen hanging at their extremities, which, together with the hanging branches, givesthis tree a most mournful look. On that account, garlands of forsaken lovers were made

of the twigs of this Willow- “ I offered him my company to a Willow-tree, to make him

" a garland as being forsaken.”— shakspeare.

It is probable that under those trees the children of Israel mourned their captivity. “ By the“rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea we wept when we remembered Zion; Wo hanged“ ®ur harps upon the Willows in the midst thereof,”—. psalms.