







BEVISIOff OF THE BRITISH WILLOWS, 353 



between Salix triandra and 8. fragilis have been described. 

 Kerner, for example, distinguished three forms — 8. subtriandra, 

 8. alopecuroides, and 8. Kovatsii; but of these I have seen 

 authentic specimens of 8. alopecuroides only, and the descriptions 

 of none of them fit S. decipiens exactly. If, therefore, it is, as I 



between f 



with 



tempore by Andersson S. gracilescens, should all be united under 

 the oldest name, viz. 8. dedpiens *. 



There is reason to believe that one of the other forms just 

 mentioned— & alopecuroides, Tausch— is also British. The Rev 

 E. F. Linton distributed some years ago, under the name of 

 "Salix undulata : Summer-flowering," a triandrous willow found 

 near St. Neots, Hunts. The specimens I have seen are cer- 

 tainly, in many ways, very like S. undulata ; but at the same 

 time they agree so well — making a little allowance for the 

 abnormal flowering — with Wimmer's specimens (Coll. 19, Herb. 

 77) of S. speciosa, Host (S. alopecuroides, Tausch), that I have 

 httle hesitation in referring them to that species. It is desirable, 

 however, that a larger series of normal specimens should be ob- 



tained. 



Mr 



mens % there is no sign of willow-cultivation, though some species, 

 chiefly 8. fragilis, grow there. 



n -Britain S. decipiens is a widely-spread, but not very abundant, 

 plant. Some botanists think that it is perhaps always planted ; 

 but Smith was of opinion that it was truly wild, though not un- 

 equently cultivated. In my experience it appears to be as 

 wild as its allies 8. triandra and 8. fragilis, with which it often, 

 but not invariably, grows. Bushes of it occur which have eer- 

 ily never been planted, whatever their origin may have been. 

 ,°i? r , itisl1 illustrations of 8. decipiens, Eng. Bot. t. 1937, and 



xxix., represent the tf fairly well ; but the foliaceous 



Wob 



8 ands (usually absent) at the apex of the petiole seem rather 



„ §§ era ted. Smith's plate was drawn from a specimen from 



Mr. Crowe's garden, May 24, 1808." Another of the original 



j**mg8 is marked « Salix decipiens, I think— J. E. S. ;" but the 

 punt looks to me> My a •a./,/.,-?.-- „ v £ ±u~ „„*i,,\, a +i.« o^j„h 



lea 



likefi 

 ves not being shown f. 









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Arth^Bc thlS W8S Written ' * have weired (through 



are ^ T* ^ aU8Ch >> cultivated in Sweden. Whilst the catkins ( tf ) of these 

 t J J" *\ tr ™ndra, the leaves &c. are quite those of 8. decipiens. 



does not know decipiens might, however, easily assume 

 1 be illustrations of 8. fragilis. 







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