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SAL IX cotinifolia.
Quince-leaved Willow.
DIOECIA Diandria.
G e n . C h a r . Male, Cal. the scales o f a catkin. Cor.
none. Nectary a gland at the base of the stamina.
Stam. 1 —5 . Female, Cal. and Nect. like the male.
Cor. none. Stigmas 2. Caps, superior, o f 1 cell
and 2 valves. Seeds downy.
S p e c . C h a r . Leaves elliptical, almost circular, slightly
toothed; downy, and marked with rectangular veins
beneath. Stigmas cloven.
Syn. Salix cotinifolia. Sm. FI. B r it. 1066.
S e NT by Mr. Dickson from the north; but Mr. Crowe has
found it in Norfolk of a larger growth, being 6 or 8 feet high.
I t flowers in April, and is very remarkable for its round leaves,
much resembling those of a Quince tree.
The branches are spreading, clothed with fine but not thickset
down. Leaves spreading, thick and firm, on thick hairy
stalks, of a very broad elliptical figure, often truly orbicular,
with a little point, flat, slightly though regularly toothed ;
above of a dull green, clothed with little flat scattered hairs ,-
beneath pale or glaucous, downy or hairy, their principal veins
spreading at right angles from the mid-rib, nearly parallel to
each other, their branches reticulated, all pale, not rusty. Sti-
pulae small, rounded. Female catkins, the only kind we have
seen, about half an inch long when in blossom, ovate, with
blunt, short, black, hairy scales. Nectary short, obtuse.
Germen on a short stalk, lanceolate or somewhat ovate, downy,
with a considerable style, and a pair of spreading cloven obtuse
stigmas. Capsules lanceolate, downy.
In drying, the leaves are very apt to turn black; which is not
the case with the preceding.