The only representative of tree vegetation now is a dwarf willow 1 in.

The white willow is a great favourite, while the drooping habit of the weeping willow renders it very attractive.

In the valleys the only trees native to the soil are the willow and cottonwood, found along the water courses, and beyond the range of irrigation vegetation is limited to scanty grass, with sage-brush and greasewood in the N.

Hartig, Die Familien der Blattwespen and Holzwespen (Berlin, 1860); Walsh, " On the Insects, Coleopterous, Hymenopterous and Dipterous, inhabiting the Galls of certain species of Willow," Proc. Ent.

The willow and orchard trees - apple, pear, plum and cherry - are cultivated everywhere.

In the coniferous forests the black grouse, hazel grouse and willow grouse, capercailzie and woodcock are the principal game birds; the crane is found in marshy clearings, birds of prey are numerous, and the Siberian jay in the north and the common jay in the south are often heard.

John Gerard (Herball, p. 1228) describes it as sweet willow or gaule, and refers to its use in beer or ale.

P. euphratica, believed to be the weeping willow of the Scriptures,.

Other trees are the juniper, willow, green ash, box elder, scrub oak, wild plum and wild cherry.

The flower may consist only of spore-bearing leaves, as in willow, where each flower comprises only a few stamens or two carpels.

40, though in Jewish tradition the latter passage was taken to refer to the Lulab, or a combination of twigs of willow and myrtle, with a palm branch, which, together with a citron, are held in the hand during processions in the synagogue?

Beavers also gnaw the bark of birch, poplar and willow trees; but during the summer a more varied herbage, with the addition of berries, is consumed.

Branches of palm, olive or sprouting willow (hence in England known as "palm") having been placed before the altar, or at the Epistle side, after Terce and the sprinkling of holy water, the priest, either in a purple cope or an alb without chasuble, proceeds to bless them.

The principal trees are the alder, aloe, palm, poplar, acacia, willow and eucalyptus.

Certain sorts of willow are largely used for basket-making and wicker-work.

It is found in the volatile oils of Spiraea, and can be obtained by the oxidation of the glucoside salicin, (C13H1807), which is found in willow bark.

They feed chiefly on grass, but also on moss, lichens and tender shoots of the willow and pine.

purpurea; planted on rich, well-drained soil, subject to occasional immersion, this willow may be grown profitably for basket-work.

As the marquess of Winchester said of himself, he was sprung from the willow rather than the oak, and he was not the man to suffer for convictions.

There are several varieties of grouse, the largest of which is the grouse of British Columbia and the pennated grouse and the prairie chicken of Manitoba and the plains, besides the so-called partridge and willow partridge, both of which are grouse.

Mimosa and the wild wilge-boom (Salix capensis) are the common trees on the banks and rivers, while the weeping willow is frequent round the farmsteads.

The popular name of a plant, also known as the sweet gale or gaul, sweet willow, bog or Dutch myrtle.

The valleys are treeless, except in the vicinity of the Truckee river, where considerable quantities of the cotton wood and a small amount of willow, birch, and wild cherry are found.

The former forests of the state were of two general classes: on the bottom lands along the rivers grew cottonwood, willow, honey-locust, coffee trees, black ash, and elm; on the less heavily wooded uplands were oaks (white, red, yellow and bur), hickory (bitternut and pignut), white and green ash, butternut, ironwood and hackberry.

Travelling generally in companies, and carrying a simple outfit, these Celtic pioneers flung themselves on the continent of Europe, and, not content with reproducing at Annegray or Luxeuil the willow or brushwood huts, the chapel and the round tower, which they had left behind in Derry or in the island of Hy (Iona), they braved the dangers of the northern seas, and penetrated as far as the Faroes and even far distant Iceland.

The genus Myrica is the type of a small, but widely distributed order, Myricaceae, which is placed among the apetalous families of Dicotyledons, and is perhaps most nearly allied to the willow family.

It is significant that olive and willow should have been chosen for benediction together with, or as substitutes for palm, and that an exorcizing power should have been ascribed to the consecrated branches: they were to heal disease, ward off devils, protect the houses where they were set up against lightning and fire, and the fields where they were planted against hail and storms. But healing power had been ascribed to the olive in pagan antiquity, and in the same way the willow had from time immemorial been credited by the Teutonic peoples with the possession of protective qualities.

Among deciduous trees the state is noted for its sugar maples; birch and beech are common on the hills, and oaks, elm, hickory, ash, poplar, basswood, willow, chestnut and butternut on the less elevated areas.

Cross-fertilization must of necessity occur when the flowers are structurally unisexual, as in the hazel, in which the male and female flowers are monoecious, or separate on the same plant, and in the willow, in which they are dioecious, or on different plants.

babylonica, it is really a native of China, from which it has been widely spread by man; the willow of the Euphrates (Ps.

3 Flowers, too, were blessed, as well as palms and willow, and carried in the procession (hence the names pascha floridum, dominica florum et ramorum les pdques fleuries).

babylonica is sometimes spoken of as Pope's willow, having been cultivated by that poet, or as Napoleon's willow, because his tomb at St Helena is overshadowed by a tree of this species, from which many offsets exist or are reputed to exist in modern gardens.

It was natural that olive and willow should have been chosen for the Palm Sunday ceremony, for they are the earliest trees to bud in the spring; their consecration, however, may be explained by the intention to Christianize a pagan belief, and it is easy to see how their mystic virtues came in this way to be ascribed to the palm also.

Among the indigenous trees are the Abies excelsa, Abies microsperma, Pinus sinensis, Pinus pinea, three species of oak, five of maple, lime, birch, juniper, mountain ash, walnut, Spanish chestnut, hazel, willow, hornbeam, hawthorn, plum, pear, peach, Rhus vernicifera, (?) Rhus semipinnata, Acanthopanax ricinifolia, Zelkawa, Thuja orientalis, Elaeagnus, Sophora Japonica, &c. Azaleas and rhododendrons are widely distributed, as well as other flowering shrubs and creepers, Ampelopsis Veitchii being universal.

It is about the size of an ordinary apple tree, with small leaves like the willow, and a drooping habit like a weeping birch, and has an edible fruit like a yellow plum called " mangaba," for which, rather than for the rubber, the tree is cultivated in some districts.

The following species, none of which are found in European Russia, are characteristic of the tundras - arbutus (Arctostaphilus alpina), heaths or andomedas (Cassiope tetragona and C. hypnoides), Phyllodoce taxifolia, Loiseleuria procumbens, a species of Latifolium, a Polar azalea (Osmothamnus fragrans) and a Polar willow (Salix arctica).

Among these may be noticed thin strips of willow and cane and the fronds of numerous palms. "Brazilian" hats made from the fronds of the palmetto palms, Sabal palmetto and S.

There is no longer a procession; but the palms (in Russia willow twigs) are blessed, and are held by the worshippers during the service.

osaria, auxaria, a bundle of osier or willow twigs), the common term under which are included the various species, varieties and hybrids of the genus Salix, used in the manufacture of baskets.

- Salix caprea - Common Sallow or Goat Willow.

Salix - Willow.

This deposit shows no trace of forest-trees, but it is full of remains of Arctic mosses, and of the dwarf willow and birch; in short, it yields the flora now found within the Arctic circle.

This reserve is noted for its creeping willow while other trees include purging buckthorn, birch and crab apple.

bulrush baskets, and laverbread to living willow fences.

The gray leafed willow has golden catkins on the male tree and silver catkins on the female.

willow catkins provide an early source of nectar for insects.

The willow is then fed to a biomass boiler used to heat fish containing sturgeon, specially bred to produce caviar.

cohosh root tincture or a vinegar of fresh willow leaves will ease a headache with pain-killing methyl salicylate.

coppice willow clones.

We have started a project using short rotation coppice willow clones.

He installed a heating system which is fuelled by willow coppice grown on his own farm.

corkscrew willow.

These are generally deciduous trees such as crab apple, lime and willow.

The whole face of the southern declivity was covered with wild shrubbery alone an occasional silver willow or white poplar excepted.

At the window, some magical turtle doves, which nested in the willow tree by her mother's grave, appear.

downy willow Salix lapponum occurs among tall herbs on some ledges.

In natural or white painted willow on a strong wooden frame with basket-style drawers.

eared willow over 20 years through natural regeneration?

Willow House is an impressive family home constructed in 1950 of brick elevations under a pitched tiled roof.

The shrub layer consists of rowan and holly, with hazel locally frequent and occasional goat willow.

It's a 25 shot green and silver glitter with willow and red tails cake.

goat willow.

Eventually the mansions give way to a more pastoral vision of cows grazing under willow trees.

The effect of hunting on willow grouse Lagopus lagopus movements.

grove of willow trees.

overgrown, dense hedgerows, containing stands of willow.

Willow, meeting Xander coming out of the magic shop, gives him a quick hug and says she loves him.

kips on the sofa Willow'd be far too tempted by the curtains, and Wes is too tall for the sofa.

Application of landfill leachate to willow short rotation coppice.

lesser whitethroat, blackcap and willow warbler.

A battle ensues which Buffy is clearly losing, but as all seems lost Giles appears to stop Willow.

Potatoes and willow might be introduced subsequently, and looked manageable.

Other species were around average except for Willow Warbler which showed a very marked decline.

The addition of common sandpiper, swallow, house martin and willow warbler brought the species count of migrants to eight.

montane willow scrub.

morphing ever since I first encountered it in George Lucas ' fantasy film, Willow.

moth larvae in a small willow bush in front of the house.

In another area he has started to grow shiitake mushrooms under a graceful canopy, a living tunnel of woven willow trees.

Pollarding willows osier cutting Osiers The osier willow, Salix viminalis, was important to both the riverside economy and the local wildlife.

Different types of tree provide timber suitable for different uses: Willow for weaving hurdles, chestnut for fence palings or ash for firewood.

There's a good choice of garden related paraphernalia at Willow & Stone.

passerines of note were a few warblers, reduced from last week to 17 Willow Warbler and 2 Garden Warbler.

peonyruns for about 49 seconds and produces blue lights and blue willow, blue lights with white glittering and blue peonies.

The work restored two old willow pollards and created three new pollards.

There are around 50 mature pollard White Willow Salix alba growing on Sheep's Green.

pollard willow stands on the river bank.

The men with terriers who were working them looked in each willow pollard, and several also carried spades.

rosebay willow herb, and the bees are hard at work.

Learn the techniques used to build a roundhouse or help to weave a basket out of willow.

The Salix alba (white willow, withe, withy) contains salicin, which is converted to salicylic acid in the body.

Light green willow saplings are in the background, where the sky shows misty blue haze.

Alder and willow predominate in the wet valley bottom, with a ground flora of golden saxifrage, yellow flag and pendulous sedge.

Perhaps because of the heat birds seemed rather scarce as we made our way on around toward the far end of Willow Lake.

Site selection rationale The SAC series reflects the UK's special responsibilities for conserving montane willow scrub.

Oakwood And Ash Plantation Consists of woodland, grassland, willow scrub and water, and a network of woodland paths.

Over the weekend the craftspeople will be constructing a large willow sculpture.

Poplar Like Willow, Poplar needs patient seasoning to become a good firewood.

Willow or birch dominates scrub on wetter dune slack areas.

To view a photo of this little smasher (called Bonnie Willow ), click HERE.

Willow and poplar grow best in wet or moist soils.

As the coppice grows it provides safe nesting sites for woodland songbirds such as willow warbler, marsh tit and blackcap.

second swale with willow ready to harvest for hurdle making.

Hurdles were woven from hazel or willow and topped with straw thatch.

thwack of willow on leather, the weavers of spells with the crimson rambler.

tricklen Warblers and Willow Warblers are still very much trickling through slowly with a peak of just 3 birds each.

Willow warbler phylloscopus trochilus Only single birds seen at Kitchener's Island and by the boat on 24 th March.

turtle doves, which nested in the willow tree by her mother's grave, appear.

The rarer varieties include the frog orchid, creeping willow, water aven, knotted pearlwort and lesser twayblade.

willow twigs have been planted to form a hedge on the bank side.

Rowan, hawthorn, holly and hazel grow beneath to form an understory, with alder and willow in the damper areas beside streams.

unrooted cutting, usually of willow or poplar.

Berwick Crescent - 3 The bankside vegetation in this area includes hawthorn, willow and alder.

He carried as the staff of office a willow wand, from which the bark was peeled.

At the trees in Merlin Dean we heard a willow warbler, a summer visitor.

weeping willow in the back garden, which is taking over the garden.

Wet woodlands comprise mainly alder, willow and downy birch growing on waterlogged or seasonally wet woodlands comprise mainly alder, willow and downy birch growing on waterlogged or seasonally wet soils.

OL6 8AQ Wednesday, 14th February 2007 (Groups please book.) Design and weave your own wonderful willow whatnot.

willow wigwams - are for sweet pea / runner bean / French bean plants or other similar climbers.

There is a weeping willow in the back garden, which is taking over the garden.

creeping willow is found on dunes throughout the UK.

Downy willow S. lapponum and net-leaved willow S. reticulata are frequent, and whortle-leaved willow S. myrsinites is also represented.

Brook Hall is the center of a bio-energy project based on coppiced willow.

It has the largest known population in the UK of wooly willow Salix lanata, the rarest of the sub-Arctic willows.

While downy willow Salix lapponum is the most widespread willow species, whortle-leaved willow S. myrsinites is also present.

The wooly willow is further restricted by its requirement for calcareous soils.

willow warbler, a summer visitor.

willow carr includes many of the species from the swamp.

willow coppice grown on his own farm.

willow bark extract.

willow scrub has invaded large areas of the reserve.

By early summer the spring flowers have given way to the rosebay willow herb, and the bees are hard at work.

withyign and create garden structures using willow withies, and take them home with you!

Great spotted woodpeckers can be glimpsed in the canopy of mature willow and ash trees as they search for insects inside dead branches.

At least seven male yellowhammers were singing around the southern (back) entrance along with three Willow Warblers.

There is a very wide range in the general structure and arrangement of the parts of the flower, associated with the means for ensuring the transference of pollen; in the simplest cases the flower consists only of a few stamens or carpels, with no enveloping sepals or petals, as in the willow, while in, the more elaborate type each series is represented, the whole forming a complicated structure closely correlated with the size, form and habits of the pollinating agent (see Flower).

Mosses and lichens are distinctive, as also are the birch, the dwarf willow and several shrubs; but where the soil is drier, and humus has been able to accumulate, a variety of herbaceous flowering plants, some of them familiar in W.

verrucosa), which extends from the Pechora to the Caucasus, the aspen, two species of alder, the mountain-ash (Sorbus aucuparia), the wild cherry and three species of willow.

Pines, larch, birch are the principal trees on the moun tains; willow, alders and poplars on the lower ground.

In all three zones occur the chestnut, aspen, willow (especially Salix laurea), hornbeam, birch, alder, juniper and yew; while the mountain ash, hazel, wild plum, wild pear and other wild fruit trees are found at rarer intervals.

In the deeper valleys and on the lowlands of West Siberia the larches, pines and silver firs, intermingled with birches and aspens, attain a great size, and the streams are fringed with thickets of poplar and willow.

WILLOW (Salix), a very well-marked genus of plants constituting, with the poplar (Populus), the order Salicaceae.

fragilis, the crack willow (fig.

the willow, poplar and birch generally take root and shoot up, they by degrees form a kind of regular planted hedge, which I have seen in some places so tall that birds have built their nests among the branches."

Deciduous trees and shrubs are represented in western Washington by comparatively small numbers of maple, alder, oak, cottonwood, willow, ash, aspen, birch, dogwood, sumach, thornapple, wild cherry, chokecherry, elder, huckleberry, blueberry,) blackberry, raspberry, gooseberry and grape.

Thus the characteristics of the currant-gall of Spathegaster baccarum, L., which occurs alike on the leaves and on the flower-stalks of the oak, are obviously due to the act of oviposition, and not to the functions of the parts producing it; the bright red galls of the saw-fly Nematus gallicola are found on four different species of willow, Salix fragilis, S.

7 The characters of galls are constant, and as a rule exceedingly diagnostic, even when, as in the case of ten different gall-gnats of an American willow, Salix humilis, it is difficult or impossible to tell the fullgrown insects that produce them from one another.

bicolor); lentils, peas, beans, vetches; cotton, hemp, safflower, tobacco; Medicago sativa (for horses); cucumber, melons, water-melons, figs (those of Sinjar famed for sweetness), dates (below, 'Ana and Tekrit); a few timber trees; plane and white poplar (by streams), willow and sumach (by the Euphrates).

arbres de haute futaie), including the beech, oak, elm, poplar, birch, ash, willow and coniferous trees; and (2) the copse wood ('akkermaal or hakhout), embracing the elder, willow, beech, oak, &c. This forms no unimportant branch of the national wealth.

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If the spike bears unisexual flowers, as in willow or hazel (fig.

Taking first this most northerly locality, in Grinnell Land, we find the flora to comprise 2 horsetails, i i Conifers (including the living Pinus Abies), 2 grasses, a sedge, 2 poplars, a willow, 2 birches, 2 hazels, an elm, a Viburnum, a water-lily, and a lime.

We find the living British species of Rhamnus, maple, sloe, hawthorn, apple, white-beam, guelder-rose, cornel, elm, birch, alder, hornbeam, hazel, oak, beech, willow, yew and pine, and also the spruce.

50°, but has yielded to Professor Nathorst's researches several Arctic species of willow and saxifrage.

Willow Warblers numbered around 1000 throughout the island, with 173 trapped and ringed at the Obs alone.

The currently favored crop under northern European conditions is willow grown as short rotation coppice.

To view a photo of this little smasher (called Bonnie Willow), click HERE.

Second swale with willow ready to harvest for hurdle making.

Weave a willow doll, make an oak swill basket, turn a chair leg.

Stephanie 11-07-2006, 12:40 For all us lovers of the thwack of willow on leather, the weavers of spells with the crimson rambler.

Garden Warblers and Willow Warblers are still very much trickling through slowly with a peak of just 3 birds each.

Willow warbler phylloscopus trochilus Only single birds seen at Kitchener 's Island and by the boat on 24 th March.

Willow twigs have been planted to form a hedge on the bank side.

Where vandalism to new trees is likely, it may be best to start by planting willow pegs, disguised among uncut grass.

Set A large unrooted cutting, usually of willow or poplar.

Willow wigwams - are for sweet pea / runner bean / French bean plants or other similar climbers.

Grazing with sheep is used to maintain certain pits without the characteristic willow margin in order to encourage migrant wildfowl in winter.

Creeping willow is found on dunes throughout the UK.

The ground flora of the willow carr includes many of the species from the swamp.

There were minimal side effects reported in those people taking willow bark extract.

However, in recent years the area has become degraded as willow scrub has invaded large areas of the reserve.

The poplar awoke to hear the willow singing a sad and wistful melody quietly to herself.

No willow branches here with their silvery blossom not even a single withered leaf to be seen not a blade of grass !

Design and create garden structures using willow withies, and take them home with you !

At least seven male Yellowhammers were singing around the southern (back) entrance along with three Willow Warblers.

The willow tree seemed to be large and powerful, yet supple and graceful at the same time.

Will Smith named his daughter Willow, while Forest Whitaker went with Ocean for his newborn son and Erykah Badu choose the name Puma for her daughter.

These trees include the weeping willow, which thrives in moist soil in USDA growing zones 5-11 and provides a drooping tree ranging from 30 to 50 feet.

The willow hybrid is an evergreen that grows about six feet a year in zones 4-8.

One great example is the Willow Twin Sleeper which opens into a twin bed.

Mother Earth News provides instructions for making a beautiful willow bed.

Herbal pain remedies include are white willow bark, and pau d' arco.

Some of these plants, like willow and foxglove, have been harvested by modern medicine to produce remedies like aspirin and digitalis, a medication used to treat heart ailments.

These include traditional aromatherapy herbs such as lavender, known for its soothing qualities, and other herbs normally taken internally for medicinal qualities, such as cinnamon, white willow bark, and chamomile.

Rawhide lamp shades, leather, suede or cowhide upholstery and handmade willow baskets provide natural textures to the style that embraces primitive décor.

The most common choices are rattan, reed, willow, and cane.

Now keep the sheers but substitute willow branches on hooks for the wrought iron.

As an added bonus, it's available in both pink and willow green!

Queenstown served as a setting for a number of films, which included the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Wolverine, X-Men Origins and Willow.

The couple has struggled through breakups and reconciliations, but remains committed to each other and their daughter, Willow Sage.

With Pinkett, he has had two children, Jaden Christopher Syre and Willow Camille Reign.

Born on Halloween in 2000, Willow Smith is the daughter of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith.

Willow is a true Hollywood girl, born in Los Angeles, California.

Following in her dad's footsteps, young Willow has also turned to music.

White Willow Bark: Some holistic vets use white willow bark to treat minor pain in dogs.

Its slender branches of 10 to 20 feet bear narrow leaves like a Willow, and an abundance of handsome lilac trumpet-flowers, 1 to 2 inches long, and continue as long as the warm season lasts.

French Willow (Epilobium) - Few of these plants are worthy of cultivation, but some are important, and the best perhaps is the showy crimson native E. angustifolium, of which there is a pure white variety.

The common native E. hirsutum is stouter than the French Willow, and is only useful by the margins of streams and ponds, associated with the Loosestrife and such plants.

The Rocky Mountain Willow Herb (E. obcordatum) is a beautiful rock plant.

It is useful for the margins of ponds or streams, where it spreads fast, and, associated with the Willow Herb, gives a beautiful effect.

The general aspect of this form is much more that of a Willow than an Olive, the long lanceolate leaves being greyish above and silvery-white beneath.

The weeping willow is a magnificent and distinctive tree!

This willow is a hybrid, possibly a cross between the Chinese willow and the white willow.

When Linnaeus saw the tree growing in the Middle East, he assumed it was the biblical willow of Babylon and named it accordingly.

Legend says that the poet Alexander Pope was responsible for the presence of the weeping willow in England.

He begged a twig from a basket sent to Lady Suffolk, and when it rooted, a weeping willow was the result.

That's a lovely story, but it is more likely that that the weeping willow was brought to England in 1748 by Mr. Vernon, who planted a tree from the Euphrates at his home, Twickenham Park.

Read Willow for information on other plants in the genus Salix.

The weeping willow is easily recognized by its distinctive long, graceful branches that sweep toward the ground.

The weeping willow will grow in acid or alkaline soils with any textures from sand to loam to clay.

Weeping willow roots have been known to circle and crush water and sewer lines.

Weeping Willow is tolerant of air pollution, making it a good city tree.

Weeping willow are usually grown as specimen trees.

Weeping willow is susceptible to aphids, borers, Japanese beetles, and lacebugs.

Deer, rabbits, and other animals will browse on weeping willow.

As an alternative to prepared rooting hormone, place the cut end of your vine in a vase with a few cut young willow shoots.

These range from organic gardening for beginners through to more unusual courses such as living willow sculpture, mushroom hunting, foraging for free and organic wine making.

The cotton shirt is available in sizes 1X to 3X in a choice of black, white, seascape and bright willow.

You can buy models in this series in onyx black, white, gloss cinnamon, blue willow, buttercup or empire red to coordinate with your kitchen décor.

Willow Tree - The Willow Tree Collection features soy candles in various sizes, from votives to pillars.

Vampire Willow, who only appeared in two episodes, is a quirky choice, ideal for a Buffy convention or any gathering of people in the know.

You can pair her with Vampire Xander or human Willow.

One of the more memorable characters was the cute-but-powerful witch Willow on the series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Another exquisite example of a modern day tote with a motif that is reminiscent of the handbags of the 1800s is the Willow Tree Angel of Prayer Tapestry Tote by Susan Lordi.

There are several additional totes by Ms. Lordi, designer of the Willow Trees figure collection.

Fill a woodland style willow basket with a fairy dress-up costume, a magic wand, an assortment of colored play silks and a few Tinkerbell movies or the Disney classic Peter Pan.

Willow and Niobe offer a more dress/formal take to the same idea.

Buffy enrolled in a local college along with Willow, while Giles opened a magic store and Xander skipped college altogether having neither the money nor the grades to get in.

Willow moved on from high school love Oz to Tara, a witch she encountered in one of the series most frightening episodes: Hush.

Willow, Tara, Anya and Xander work together to resurrect Buffy from the dead with a powerful spell.

Willow was able to bring Buffy back from the brink, but the loss of Tara pushed Willow over the edge.

Giles and Buffy worked to stop her, but it was Xander who brought Willow back from madness and saved the world.

Willow attempted a spell that would activate all the potential Slayers.

During the four years Buffy and Angel were both on the air, the show's shared periodic crossovers involving multiple characters including Buffy, Faith, Spike and Willow.

Kennedy and numerous others - In the final television season of Buffy, many potential slayers are introduced and thanks to Willow's magic, become full-fledged Slayers.

Willow Rosenberg (Alyson Hannigan) and Xander Harris (Nicholas Brendan) are the original members of the self-described 'Scoobies.'

Willow and Xander both grew up in Sunnydale and befriend Buffy on her first day at Sunnydale High School.

Most alternate members of the Scoobies are significant others of Willow and Xander.

Oz and Tara both dated Willow and each held a supernatural secret of their own: Oz was a werewolf and Tara a witch.

Willow dabbles with magic throughout the series, but becomes a full-fledged witch by the time she is in college and turns to the blackest of spells when Tara is killed at the end of the sixth season.

Surprisingly enough, it is the brief flirtation between Willow and Xander that breaks up Xander's relationship with Cordelia.

All the main characters are represented: Buffy, Willow, Xander, Angle, Giles, Oz, Spike, Riley, and Cordelia.

Warwick Davis (Willow) played the robot onscreen, but like James Earl Jones, Rickman's voice has left its mark.

Skyn Iceland's Anti-Blemish Gel is rich in green tea and willow bark, both recognized for their antioxidants and antibacterial properties.

The cleansing complex uses ingredients like white willow bark extract, sugar cane extract, chamomile and vitamins A, E and C to deep clean without drying and help control acne.

Using ingredients like hyaluronic acid, fruit acid extracts, white willow bark extract, peptides and vitamin B5, the youth complex claims to reduce wrinkles quickly while rebuilding the skin with measurable results.

Shop around for facial acne products that contain willow bark, green tea extract or soothing hydrangea leaf.

The chief trees of the country are the aspen (Populus tremuloides), the ash-leaved maple (Negundo aceroides), oak (Quercus alba), elm (Ulmus Americana), and many varieties of willow.

In America several oaks exist with narrow lanceolate leaves, from which characteristic they are known as "willow oaks."

In some cases the heart-wood, instead of becoming specially hard, remains soft and easily rots, so that the trunk of the tree frequently becomes hollow, as is commonly the case in the willow.

2.-Salix fragilis - Crack Willow.

alba, the white or Huntingdon willow.

They are frequently covered with a resinous matter, as in balsam-poplar and horsechestnut, or by a thick downy covering as in the willow.

The jungle is chiefly tamarisk and padah (willow).

The period is characterized by two series of chipped flints, one modelled on the laurel-leaf, the other on that of the willow.

sylvatica), walnut, chestnut, poplar, willow and eucalyptus.

Of Phanerogams, only the Dryas octopetala covers small areas of the debris, interspersed with isolated Cochlearia, &c., and, where a layer of thinner clay has been deposited in sheltered places, the surface is covered with saxifrages, &c.; and a carpet of mosses allows the arctic willow (Salix polaris) to develop. Where a thin sheet of humus, fertilized by lemmings, has accumulated, a few flowering plants appear, but even so their brilliant flowers spring direct from the soil, concealing the developed leaflets, while their horizontally spread roots grow out of proportion; only the Salix lanata rises to 7 or 8 in., sending out roots I in.

A fair variety of trees - cottonwood, sycamore, ash, willow, walnut and cherry - grow in thickets in the canyons, and each mountain range is a forest area.

along the southern boundary was a part of the great hardwood forest of the Ohio Basin with woods varying with soil and drainage: on the drier gravel lands were oak forests consisting of red, black and white oak, hickory, ash, cherry, basswood and walnut; in depressions there were maple, elm, ash, beech, sycamore, poplar and willow; and in the sontheast there were a few chestnuts and tulip trees.

Among forest shrubs are the willow, hazel, alder, shrub maple, birch, hawthorn, dogwood, elderberry, viburnum and snowberry.

Briancon manna is met with on the leaves of the common Larch, and bide-khecht on those of the willow, Salix fragilis; and a kind of manna was at one time obtained from the cedar.

Another considerable river is the Liu-kiang, or Willow River, which rises in the mountains inhabited by the Miao-tsze, in Kwei-chow.

It is common on branches of elder, which it often kills, and is also found on elm, willow, oak and other trees.

The commonest species of trees are such as grow in central Europe, namely, ash, fir, pine, beech, acacia, maple, birch, box, chestnut, laurel, holm-oak, poplar, elm, lime, yew, elder, willow, oak.

Furthermore there is a state association engaged in irrigation projects, and the United States Reclamation Service, established by an Act of Congress in 1902, has projects for utilizing the flood waters of the Umatilla, Malheur, Silvies and Grande Ronde rivers, the waters of the Owyhee and Wallowa rivers and Willow Creek, and the waters of some of the lakes in the central part of the state.