36 THE BRITISH WILLOWS 



.S'. lapponum, may be claimed as British. But in the absence of 

 any other Scottish specimens of this plant, there is reason to 

 suspect the accuracy of the label. 



S. lapponum ranges from 1000 to 3000 ft. in the Scotch 

 mountains (700 ft. in the Ochill Hills, B. White, Revision, p. 427), 

 and is chiefly found from Argyllshire and Forfar northwards to 

 Sutherlandshire. It also occurs in Stirlingshire, co. Edinburgh 

 (planted ?), Dumfriesshire, and Westmorland. Mountains of North 

 and Central Europe ; Siberia. 



S. lapponum x arbuscula. 



x aurita (p. 43). 



X caprea (p. 50). 



X herbacea. 



x lanata. 



X myrsinites (p. 36). 



x phylicifolia (p. 37). 



x r opens (p. 37). 



x reticulata (p. 38). 



Salix lapponum x myrsinites. 



Syn. S. lapponum-myrsinites (S. phceopliylla Anderss. in 

 Bot. Not. 116 (1867), fide Seemen, iv. 287; but all the original 

 specimens of S. phceopkylla Anderss. are S. herbacea x lapponum, 

 according to what S. J. Enander told me in 1909). — S. Lapponum 

 X Myrsinites Linton in Journ. Bot. 1892, 363. 



Exs. Hb. E. F. Linton (garden), Nos. 175, 176, 177, 182. 



A dwarf decumbent shrub with pubescent young branches, at 

 length glabrous polished dark brown ; buds dark brown glabrescent. 

 Stipules not seen. Leaf-blades usually ovate-oblong, sometimes 

 obovate-oblong, obscurely serrate or subentire, dark green glabres- 

 cent and + shining above, grey-pubescent beneath with subper- 

 sistent pubescence. Catkins ^-1 in. long, appearing before the 

 leaves or 2 with the leaves ; $ ovoid to ovoid-oblong, subsessile, 

 with few small leaves or below, very silky, anthers red-tipped ; 

 2 on short peduncles leafy below, bracts obovate-oblong, obtuse 

 or broadly obovate rounded above, silkily pubescent ; ovaries grey- 

 pubescent, at length ovoid-conic, sessile or lower subsessile ; 

 nectaries linear- oblong entire or notched and slightly expanded at 

 the tip, exceeding the base of the ovaries ; style and stigmas long, 

 often tinged with red. 



This hybrid has been admitted into the list on the strength of 

 specimens gathered in part of Glen Fiagh, Forfarshire, by W. R. 

 Linton and myself, and believed by us to be of this origin, being 

 of bolder growth and having larger foliage than S. herbacea x 

 lapponum in this or other localities. These are, however, referred 

 together with Andersson's original specimens of S. phceopkylla to 

 S. herbacea x lapponum by S. J. Enander. 



On this account the above description is made, not from the 

 Glen Fiagh plant, but from a series of plants, S and 2 , raised and 

 grown in the garden at Bournemouth from seed of S. lapponum 

 fertilized by S. myrsinites, where no S. herbacea at the time existed. 



