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seem to be a little longer in proportion to their size than in that 



species 



2. A specimen in F. J. Hanbury's " Boswell Herbarium," on 

 a sheet with the label " Salix prunifolia, Breadalbane Mte., J.D. 

 Hooker." This has no flowers, but is in habit nearer herbacea 

 than No. 1, with which in the leaves it quite agrees. 



3. Meall Dhuin Croisg (W. Barclay and R. H. Meldrum). In 

 habit and leaves near herbacea, but in its catkins nearer, appa- 

 rently, Arbuscula. I once thought that this might be a form of 

 S. Moorei nearer 8. herbacea, but now I suspect that 8. Arbuscula 

 is more likely to be one of its parents. The catkins are lateral 

 on leafy peduncles, and are moderately long. The capsules are 

 pubescent, intermediate in shape between those of Arbuscula 

 and herbacea, and pedicellate, with the pedicel about as long as 

 the long linear nectary. The style is of medium length, and the 

 stigmas rather short, thick, and cleft. The leaves much resemble 

 those of herbacea, but are not quite identical. It is beyond 

 doubt a hybrid of herbacea, but whether with Arbuscula is a 

 little uncertain. 



specimen in the Edinburgh University Herbarium, 



4. A 



{folia 



Hooker." This has young catkins and young leaves only. The 

 leaves seem essentially the same as those of Nos. 1 and 2. The 

 catkins are lateral and terminal, on leafy peduncles, very small 

 and subglobose. The scales are glabrous on the back and ciliate 

 on the margins, and very similar to those of herbacea. The 

 ovaries are like those of Arbuscula, but the style and stigma 

 like herbacea. Larger and older specimens are desirable. 



X Salix sobeina, n. hybr. (S. herbacea X S. Lapponum.) 

 A morsel of a willow gathered on the east side of Ben Chat, 

 m Atholo Forest, Perthshire, by Dr. Roy, of Aberdeen, and by 

 myself, had long been a puzzle to me (especially as it had no 

 catkins) till I came to examine a plant found by the Kev. E. S 



Mars} 



These 



latter specimens, being in better condition and having $ catkins, 

 show that it is a hybrid between 8. herbacea and S. Lapponum. 



The examples which I have seen are so intermediate between 

 the parent species, that they are not strikingly like either of 

 them. In 8 i ze the plant is like herbacea, but in habit more like 

 lapponum, especially in the comparatively (to the size) stout, 

























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