180 DIOECIA— DIANDRIA. Salix. 



rate from this the more downy variety, mentioned in Fl. Brit. 

 whose sHpulas also are quite smooth ; nor can I refer either of 

 them to any of the foregoing, more rigid-leaved, species. There 

 \s, unquestionably, a great affinity between the present and 3 of 

 the preceding ones, nitcns, Wulfeniana, and tetrapla ; of which 

 not having studied living specimens, nor growing plants, I do 

 not venture to say anything decisive. I must recommend them 

 to the patient observation of good botanists and cultivators. 

 Willdenow very justly remarks that his S. coruscans, 77. 53, Arbus- 

 cula of Jacq. Austr. t. 408, is nearly akin to temdfolia. 



15. S. maUfolia. Apple-leaved Willow. 



Leaves elliptic-oblong, toothed, waved, thin and crackling, 

 very smooth. Stipulas heart-shaped, about equal to the 

 footstalks. Scales obovate, bearded. Germen lanceo- 

 late, smooth, on a short smooth stalk. 



S. malifolia. Fl. Br. 1053. Engl. Bot. v. 23. ^.1617. Rees's CycL 

 n. 23. mild. Sp. PI. V. 4. 676. 



In thickets. 



Mr. Crowe was aUvays persuaded that he found this Willow wild 

 in some part of Norfolk, from whence he took cuttings for his 

 garden. It has since been gathered in Scotland, and was per- 

 haps originally sent from thence by Mr. Dickson, who supplied 

 Mr. Crowe with several new Scottish species. 



Shrub. April. 



The aspect of this Salix is altogether singular amongst our British 

 kinds, resembling some sort of Apple-tree rather than a Willow. 

 The stem is from 3 or 4 to 6 feet high, crooked, with numerous, 

 irregular, spreading, crooked or wavy branches, most leafy about 

 the ends ; their bark blackish 5 the young ones hairy. Leaves 

 crowded, irregularly spreading, somewhat twisted, full 2 inches 

 long and 1 broad, of a thin dry and crackling texture, like an 

 evergreen, though perfectly deciduous 5 their shape elliptic-ob- 

 long, with short or blunt points, sometimes obovate and nar- 

 rower ; contracted, not rounded nor heart-shaped at the base ; 

 the margin unequally wavy and copiously toothed ; both sur- 

 faces quite smooth ; the upper bright green ; under glaucous, 

 with prominent, parallel, pale veins, interbranching near the 

 edges ; midrib reddish, always perfectly smooth. Footstalks 

 smooth, short and thick, broad at the base, rarely a little hairy 

 at the back. Stipulas as long as the footstalks, or a little 

 longer, recurved, irregularly heart-shaped, toothed, smooth ; 

 glaucous beneath. Fertile catkins, the only ones I have seen, 

 earlier than the foliage, an inch long, erect, dense, honry, on 

 short lateral stalks, bearing also a few lanceolate, acute, pale- 

 green, crenate floral leaves. Scalex obovate, copiously bearded. 



