2G THE BRITISH WILLOWS 



S. Bakosiana Borbas, Endeszet Lapok et in CEsterr. Bot. 

 Zetschr. (1883), 359, was issued as a form of this hybrid on 

 the S. purpurea side. It is perhaps the combination Dr. White 

 suspected for his var. rubella. No. 1466 in Kerner's Fl. exs. 

 Austr. Hung., labelled " S. Rakosiana [subcinerea x purpurea) 

 Borbas, Hungaria pr. Budapest, legit Borbas," ex Hb. C. Bailey, 

 shows S. viminalis very plainly in the leaves and in the moderate 

 style, while the small stigmas recall S. cinerea. 



S. cinerea x purpurea has been found plentifully along the 

 banks of the Eiver Tay near Perth (numerous specimens in Hb. 

 B. White), and in Dumfriesshire (Hb. Fingland,No. 208). Europe: 

 France, Germany, Denmark, Scandinavia, Switzerland, Lower 

 Austria, Tirol, Bohemia, Hungary. 



SALIX PURPUREA X PHYLICIFOLIA. 



Syn. S. secemeta (S. purpurea x pliylicifolia) B. White in 

 Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist. (1892), 65. 



Exs. E. F. & W. E. Linton, No. 82. 



A low spreading bush, with straight slender glabrous rather 

 shining dark brown branches ; buds oblong glabrous. Stipules 

 h roundish-lanceolate (seen only in cult, specimens). Leaf-blades 

 1^-2 in. long, ovate- or oblong-lanceolate, finely serrate, glabrous 

 unless while very young, pale green to glaucous beneath, not dis- 

 colouring when dried. Catkins small, narrow, fl. in May, shortly 

 peduncled with 2-3 small leaves below ; $ |— f in. long, bracts 

 oblong-spathulate to lanceolate, very dark (nearly black) above, 

 clothed with long white hairs ; filaments adnate (on one bush) or 

 united only near the base (on another) ; nectaries short quadrate ; 

 $ 1-H in. long, bracts shortly oblong hairy ; ovaries long -conic 

 grey-tomentose, shortly pedicelled ; nectaries broad, shorter than 

 the pedicels ; stigmas shorter than the moderately long styles. 



Banks of the Kiver Nith, near Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire, where 

 first discovered by James Fingland. Easily overlooked as S. 

 pliylicifolia in leaf, but exhibiting unmistakable evidence of 

 >$. purpurea in the flowers. 



Endemic in Scotland. 



SALIX PURPUREA X REPENS. 



Syn. S. Doniana Smith, Engl. Fl. iv. 213. Anderss. DC. 

 Prodr. xvi. (2), 315. Syme, E. B. viii. 219. B. White, Eevision, 

 452. — S. repens-purpurea Wimmer, Fl. Schles. 2 Nachtr. 482 

 (1845) ; Sal. Eur. 171. 



Icon. E. B. S. t. 2599. Forbes, Sal. Wob. t. 85. Camus, 

 Atlas t. 27, f. k-p. 



Exs. Wimmer, Sal. Eelict. (Herb. Sal. 19, 54; Coll. Sal. 

 236-238, 241). Leefe, Sal. exs. 1, 99. Baenitz, Hb. Eur. leg. 

 Schatz. E. F. & W. E. Linton, Nos. 6, 83. Toepffer, Sal. exs. 

 No. 77. 



A shrub 3-5 ft. high, with straight slender reddish-brown 

 branches, soon glabrous ; buds puberulous, glabrescent. Stipules 

 small, linear or narrow, fugitive. Leaf-blades |-2 in. long, often 

 in pairs, usually oblanceolate or oblong-obovate "to oblong-lanceo- 

 late, tip acute, narrowed to the base, with revolute margin, entire 



