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visited the north of England, and on their return Mr. Crowe 
brought the seed of Hieracium maculatum, Sm. for his 
garden, and the plant spreading from thence, established 
itself in the neighbourhood of Norwich. 32 
In January, 1782, the Rev. H. Bryant wrote from Heydon 
to James Smith : — “ Crowe and I have made good use of our 
time, and have found a multitude of new things, many of 
which are not described.” 6 Crowe also had the advantage 
of working in Norfolk with Mr. James Dickson, of whom 
Dr. Smith wrote that his “ discoveries have undoubtedly more 
copiously enriched the British Flora than those of any other 
person since the days of Ray and Dillenius.” 82 
Linnaeus, in his “ Flora Lapponica,” was the first botanist 
to bestow much attention on the Genus Salix ; English authors 
knew as yet little about it. Crowe had studied the mosses, 
lichens, fungi, and seaweeds, but finding in the course of his 
agricultural pursuits that people who used willows for economic 
purposes, such as the making of hurdles, were often hindered 
for want of knowing one kind from another, he determined to 
study them himself. 10 For many years he took cuttings of 
willows on his rides about Norfolk and Suffolk wherever he 
saw them, though he did not always remember the exact 
habitat of each specimen. He collected every wild or 
cultivated willow he could possibly obtain, even going to 
Woburn to select them. 3 ' These he proceeded to grow near 
his house at Lakenham in order to investigate them at leisure. 
Each specimen was labelled alphabetically or by number ; 
thus, No. 12 was Salix Croweana, letter M. was S. Smithiana, 
and S. Forbyana — “the very plant sent by the Rev. Joseph 
Forby” — was there. Cuttings 12 or 14 inches long were 
placed, one foot distant from plant to plant, in nursery 
beds, avoiding gravel which they dislike ; later, transplanted 
to moist soil, not too wet, they were grown all over 
the place — in the garden, on the kitchen garden bank, 
on the barn garden bank, and in the copse. Every 
season there came up abundance of seedling willow 
plants which were never destroyed till their species were 
