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DH. ANDERSSON'S REMARKS ON THE WILLOWS CON- 

 TAINED IN THE "SALICT. BRIT. EXSICC," WITH 

 MR. WARD'S AND MR. LEEFE'S OBSERVATIONS. 



By the Rev. J. E. Leefe, M.A., E.L.S. 



Ill the year 1850, Dr. Andersson, of Christiania, when in England, 

 took the trouble to examine the specimens of Willows contained in the 

 " Salictum Brit. Exsicc.," published by me in two fasciculi, about 1842 ; 

 and his observations were communicated by Mr. H. C. Watson to 

 Henfrey's 'Botanical Gazette' for May, 1851 (vol. iii. p. 57, et seq.). 

 I am indebted to Mr. Watson for copying out Dr. Andersson's notes 

 for me, as I did not possess the work in which they were recorded. 

 Por a long time, I am sorry to say, the papers remained unexamined, 

 as my time was fully occupied in other ways. In the last year or so, 

 however, I have, in conjunction with my old and valued correspondent 

 Mr. Ward, of Richmond, Yorkshire, who had so large a share in the 

 collection of the original specim.ens, gone carefully over the remarks of 

 Dr. Andersson, and now publish our remarks. It may interest some 

 who possess the published specimens to know what we who collected 

 them now think about them. I have only to add that Mr. Ward's 

 remarks bear his name, and that my own have " 05s." prefixed to 

 them. 



1, 2. No note by Dr. A. 



3, 4. " Ha3C forma S. amygdalina;, L., in Germania septentrionali 

 vulgaris, in Suecia rarior." 



5. " S. amygdalina, L. ! Sed in Suecia nondum ita latifolia visa." 



6. " NuUo modo a S. amygdalina distinguenda ; cum S. undidata 

 nihil habet commune." Obs. Dr. A. has misunderstood the label. 

 The name refers to an undulated variety of S. triandra, Sm. See 

 Hooker's Brit. El. p. 356, note. 



7. 8. " Haec forma in Suecia borcali spontanea. ^S". amygdalina 

 vera Linurei." Obs. I have no doubt Dr. A. is quite right, if S. 

 amygdalina is comprehensively defined. 



9. No note or name by Dr. A. 



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