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DR. F. BUCHANAN WHITE S 



It seems, 



in his uotes that the Lapland plant, which is a lofty bush, 

 differs from the tree which grows in Sweden, which he thus 

 describes : — u Salix foliis serratis glabris lanceolatis acummatis 

 appendiculatis," and quotes more especially for it Ray's (Hist. 

 1420), " Salix folio longo splendente, fragilis." In the ' Flora 

 Suecica ' he seems to have thought, however, that they were after 

 all the same, as he cites the ' Fl. Lap.' and describes the leaves as 

 * ovato-lanceolatis " instead of simply " lanceolatis." 

 therefore, uncertain whether Linn£ had in view, so far as his 

 descriptions go, A, or A x B, or both of them. Nor does his Her- 

 barium throw any light on the subject; for the only specimen 

 labelled "fragilis" by Linne has " alba? " added to it by Smith, 

 and seems to be alba <J . 



Hudson and Lightfoot, the immediate English followers of 

 Linne, do not afford any information by which the question can 

 be decided ; but Hoffmann (as noticed under S. decipiens) states 

 that " nomine Sal. fragilis, L., diversae species occurrunt," which, 

 though it does not indicate the exact nature of the Linnean species, 

 is valuable as showing that the subject w r as in an unsettled state. 



Not only because he was a Swede, but a botanist of the 

 highest rank, the descriptions of Elias Fries deserve most careful 



attention. 



Wimmer 



botanists, AxB has been referred to Fries's S. viridis, with 

 the citation " Nov. Fl. Suec, Mant. i. p. 43," and "Nov. Fl. 

 Suec. ed. 2, p. 283." (As a matter of fact, the name was given 

 earlier, as Fries quotes a prior part — the first edition of the 

 4 Novitiae ;' and it is mentioned by "Wahlenberg, ' Flora Suecica, 

 1826, under S. alba, with the citation "S. viridis, Fr. Nov. p. 120," 

 while the dates of the works mentioned above are 1832 and 1828 

 respectively.) 



As the ' Mantissa ' seems to be considered the most important 

 citation, we will first of all examine it. The part relating to the 

 Willows is entitled " Commentatio de Salicibus Suecise." Here 

 the species and forms we are now discussing are mentioned as 



foil 



ows 



fragilis, with varieties 3 



1 subsericeis, 



ii 



tellina ; 4. S. viridis ; and 5. S. alba. 



S. fragilis is described as having the later leaves 

 and the capsules " subsessilibus ovato-conicis" It is referred to 

 the S. fragilis of Linne (" in Itin. Scan. p. 200 stabilita ") and of 

 Smith. The branches are stated to arise at right angles to the 

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