30 THE BRITISH WILLOWS 



S. viminalis x aurita (p. 30). 

 x caprea (p. 30). 

 x cinerea (p. 31). 

 X purpurea (p. 27). 

 x repens (p. 60). 

 X triandra (p. 13). 



SALIX AURITA X VIMINALIS. 



Syn. S. fcrrwjinea G. Anderson, Syme E. B. viii. 228. — 

 S. aurita x viminalis Wimmer in Kegensb. Flora, 319 (1848) ; 

 Sal. Eur. 183. Camus, Monogr. 320. Seemen, iv. 274. — S. fruti- 

 cosa Doll. ii. 515. — xS. Smithiana Willd. ft vekttina, var. ferru- 

 ginea, Anderss. DC. Prodr. xvi. (2) 267. — S. Smithiana S ferru- 

 ginea B. White, Eevision, 414. 



Icon. E. B. S. t. 2665. Forbes, Sal. Wob. t. 128. 



Exs. Leefe, Sal. Brit. exs. No. 35, 36; Sal. exs. iii. 63. 

 Wimmer, Sal. Eelict. (Herb. Sal. 12, 135; Coll. Sal. 176-178). 

 Hb. B. White, Nos. 128, 181. E. F. & W. E. Linton, No. 11. 

 Toepffer, Nos. 44, 57, 258, 259. 



A shrub 5-10 ft. high, branches slender, pubescent at first, 

 soon glabrescent. Stipules ^-cordate-lanceolate, + dentate on tho 

 outer edge, tip often twisted aside. Leaf-blades 2-5 in. long, 

 rather narrowly lanceolate, undulate, crenate-serrate or often with 

 some serrations above the middle, somewhat wrinkled, green and 

 soon glabrate above, grey and shortly woolly-pubescent (or with 

 adpressed hair), slowly glabrescent (at least in the lower leaves) 

 beneath, tip often twisted. Catkins f-l£ in. long, fl. April, 

 slender, bracts oblong-spathulate to oblong-acuminate, clothed 

 with silky hair; $ elongate in fruit up to 2 in. by ^ in. broad ; 

 ovaries conic tomentose, nectaries linear nearly as long as the 

 pedicels, styles short or medium, about as long as the stigmas. 



This hybrid, which differs from others of the group by its 

 narrower leaf-blades with undulate margins and its more slender 

 catkins, occurs in lowland situations, very sparsely from Perth- 

 shire southwards ; Co. Kilkenny in Ireland. Europe : France, 

 Germany, Scandinavia. 



SALIX CAPREA X VIMINALIS. 



Syn. S. mollissima Sm. Fl. Brit. iii. 1070. — 8. caprea-vimi- 

 nalis Wimmer, Sal. Eur. 178. — S. Smithiana Willd. a sericam 

 (Tausch.) Anderss. DC. Prodr. xvi. (2), 267. B. White, Eevision, 

 217. — S. caprea x viminalis Camus, Monogr. 309. Seemen, iv. 

 268. 



Icon. Forbes, Sal. Wob. t. 134. Camus, Atlas, pi. 29, a-f. 



Exs. Hb. Linn. Nos. 48, 76a. Leefe, Sal. Brit. exs. Nos. 27, 

 28, 30, 3], 33, 34 (as S. ruxjosa Leefe); Sal. exs. Nos. 22, 86 

 ("S. Smithiana W., not E. B."), 101? Wimmer, Sal. Eelict. 

 (Herb. Sal. 74, 118; Coll. Sal. 160, 166, 168). Hb. B. White, 

 Nos. 236, 237. E. F. & W. E. Linton, No. 12. Toepffer, 

 No. 60. 



A large shrub, 10-18 ft. high, with branches rather stout and 

 gradually glabrescent, not striated under the peel ; buds oval, 



