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DB. F. BUCHANAN WHITE'S 



I have seen specimens of Salix decipiens from the following 



u Watsonian counties ": 



3, South Devon (Archer Briggs) ; 6, Somerset (Painter) ; 12, 

 Hants ; 17, Surrey ( H. C. Watson) ; 19, North Essex (Leefe) ; 

 23, Oxford (Bruce) ; 32, Northampton (Bruce) ; 36, Hereford 

 (A. Ley) ; 38, Warwick (T. Kirk) ; 39, Stafford (Fraser) ; 64, 

 M.W. York (J. Q. Baker) ; 65, N.W. York (Ward); 80, Rox- 

 burgh (Brother ston) ; 81, Berwick (BrotJierston) ; 85, Fife (W- 

 Martin) ; 88, Mid Perth ! ; 89, East Perth ! 



X Salix subdola, n. hybr. (S. triandra X S. alba.) 

 This is an equivalent of 8. decipiens, with the fragilis element 

 replaced by alba. In many ways it much resembles S. deci- 

 piens ; and leaf-specimens might readily be passed over as a form 

 of that hybrid. 



I have as yet seen the $ plant only with catkins, but hope 



that some bushes may prove to be cJ . 



The ? forms a rather low bush with upright branches. Bark 

 of the older twigs pale grey-brown, rather dull, that of the shoots 

 shining yellowish, but becoming more or less brown when dried; 

 the very youngest shoots occasionally pubescent. Buds lanceo- 

 late, yellowish, with reddish tips when alive. Leaves narrow 

 oblong-lanceolate, tapering at the base, obliquely acuminate at 

 the apex ; margin finely and rather closely glandular-serrate 

 the glands blackish in colour ; upper surface shining pale green, 

 with minute white dots, the veins very slightly impressed ; under 

 surface dull, pale green or more or less glaucous ; chief veins slightly 

 raised. Leaves mostly quite glabrous, but the very youngest silky, 

 and the petioles of the older ones and occasionally the underside ot 

 the midrib and of the lamina towards the base sometimes pubescent. 

 Catkins about 1 inch long, narrow, cylindrical, dense-flowered, erect 



or erect-spreading on leafy peduncles about half their own length ; 

 rachis thick, pubescent ; scales pale greenish white, oblong spathu- 

 late, apex truncate-rounded, pubescent at the base, subglabrous on 

 the back, inner side concave glabrous, long and densely ciliateon 

 the margin ; capsule small, ovate-conic, with a pedicel a little longer 

 than, to twice as long as, the small thick yellow inner nectary (fl° 

 outernectary) ; style almost none, thick, subbifid ; stigmas short, 

 half bifid, recurved-spreading, segments broad, finally brown. 



The fades of this hybrid is, as mentioned above, much like that 

 of S. decipiens, from which the less shining and greyer bark o 

 the older twigs, the more slender branches, the smaller, narrower, 

 and more finely serrate leaves, the smaller catkins, and emaU 













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