Salix
the willow, a genus of plants, the United States are numerous, and coma.
The species found in monly known as willows, osiers, and swallows. Their timber, though wanting in many useful purposes; and the wood of strength and durability, is applied to the flexible branches and twigs is largely sage willow, S. tristis, a small, downy employed for basket -work, hoops, etc. The shrub with a profusion of aments in most common species in the Northern appearing before the leaves, is the and Middle States. A peculiar crystalresembling quinine in its properties, called salicine, has been obtained from the bark, leaves, or flowers of about 20 species of this genus.
Morocco; on the Atlantic, at the mouth