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SALIX

Volume 3 · 81 words · 1771 Edition

in botany, a genus of the dioecia diandra clas. The amentum of both male and female consists of scales; none of them have any corolla; the stylus is bifid; the capsule has but one cell, and two valves; and the seeds are papous. There are 31 species, 18 of them natives of Britain.

SALIEE, a port-town of the empire of Morocco, in the kingdom of Fez, situated on the coast of the Atlantic ocean: W. long. 7°, and N. lat. 34°.