. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. LXVIII. 5AL1CA CEJE : SA LIX. 757 Wob.) A handsome low-growing tree, with the branches of the preceding year of a greyish green colour and smooth, and the young twigs of a yellowish green, somewhat striated or angular at the points. Switzerland, and, perhaps. North America. Introduced in
. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. LXVIII. 5AL1CA CEJE : SA LIX. 757 Wob.) A handsome low-growing tree, with the branches of the preceding year of a greyish green colour and smooth, and the young twigs of a yellowish green, somewhat striated or angular at the points. Switzerland, and, perhaps. North America. Introduced in 1812. Height 20 ft. to 30 ft. Flowers yellow j April and May. Group V. Fragiles Borrer. Trees, vnth tAeir Thuigs mostly brittle at the Joints. Prin. sp. 19. 22. and 24. Stamens 2 to a flower. Ovary glabrous, elongated, seated upon a more or less obvious stalk. Flowers very loosely disposed in the catkin. Leaves lanceolate, serrated, glabrous, stipuled. The plants, trees of considerable size. (Hook. Br. FL, ed. 2., adapted.) 2 19. S. babylo'nica. The Babylonian, or weeping. Willow. Identification. Lin. Sp. PI., 1443.; Smith in Rees's Cyclo., No. 42.; Koch Comm., p. 17. Synonymes. S. propendens Bering. SaL Bel. p. 73.; S. orient^hs, &c., Tourn.; S. ar&bica, &c., C. Batih. 5 Saule pleureur. Parasol du grand Seigneur, Fr.; Trauer Weide, Thranen Weide, Ger. The Sexes. The female is figured in StU. IVab.; the male is not Itnown, in a living state, in Britain ; unless it be jS. b. Napoledna, as suggested in p. 758. Engravings. Rauw. It, 25. 183.; our Jig. 22. in p. 795.; the plates of this tree in Arb. Brit., 1st edit., vol. vil.; and our^. 1441. S. babjldnica. Spec Char ^c. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, finely serrated, glabrous, slaucous'beneath. Catkins protruded at the same time as the leaves. Ovary ovate, sessile, glabrous. {WilU.) A pendulous-branched tree. Asia, on the banks ot the Euphrates, near Babylon, whence its name ; and also 3c 3. Please note that th
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