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My 



The catkins 



( ? ), which are borne on terminal and lateral, rather long, leafy 

 peduncles, are l|-2 inches long, stout and cylindrical; scales 

 small and rather narrow, very hairy ; capsules sessile or nearly 

 so, oblong-conical, obtuse, coloured like those of Arbuscula, and 

 hairy ; style slender, rather short, with the apex bifid ; stigmas 

 short, slender, bifid. The plant is quite intermediate between its 

 supposed parents. 

 Here also may belong a scrap in the same herbarium labelled 



if oli 



Mts. J.D.Hooker." If it does, 



it is nearer Arbuscula. The small leaves are rather intermediate ; 

 the capsule more slender than in the above ; the style very short, 

 and the stigmas very short and thicker. 



Under S. Arbuscula, Walker- Arnott describes a var. /3 from 

 Ben Lawers, with " leaves (broadly or roundish ovate, promi- 

 nently veined above) green, but scarcely shining on both sides." 

 Of it, he says that it is precisely intermediate between Arbuscula 



lites, and may perhaps be a hybrid. It was found 



Myr 

 only once. 



15. Salix hebbacea, L. 



& herbacea varies in many small particulars, such as size, 

 shape and extent of serration of the leaves, downiness of the 

 young shoots, Ac. The pedicel of the capsule varies a little in 

 length, and in being glabrous or silky, the silkiness sometimes 

 extending to the base of the capsule. The style also varies in 

 kngth. Occasionally the capsule has a few hairs on it, and more 

 rarely well-developed lines of hairs. The most extreme state of 

 this form which I have seen is in a plant, collected by Dr. Greville 

 in Corrie Kandor in 1830, which has, moreover, the style bifid 

 to the base. A less extreme form I have found near Glen Tilt. 

 Andersson describes a var. subpolaris whose capsule has lines of 

 h airs, but it differs from the type in also having entire leaves. 



X Salix Geahami (Borr.), Baker. (8. herbacea X S. phylici- 



folia ?) 



Un 



note: 



aer 

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S. Myrsin 



D. Hooker has the following 



...„„.., Borr. MS, is only known from 2 speci- 

 mens, cultivated in the Edin. Bot. Garden, said to have been 

 bought by Prof. Graham from Frouvyn in Sutherlandshire. 









