THE BRITISH WILLOWS 37 



Salix lapponum x phylicifolia Gillot in Kevue deBot. (1890) 

 517. Linton in Journ. Bot. (1892) 362. Enander, iii. Nos. 149, 

 150, pp. 81, 82 (1910).— S. Gilloti Camus, Monogr. 365.— S. phyli- 

 cifolia x lapponum Seemen, iv. 285. 



Icon. Camus, Atlas PL 33, b, c. Enander, fasc. iii. Nos. 149, 

 150 (icon, photogr.). 



Exs. E. F. & W. E. Linton, Nos. 53, 86 (see note below). 



A small shrub, 1-4 ft. high, branches pubescent or tomentose 

 when quite young, soon glabrous, at length dark brown, + shining. 

 Stipules not apparent. Leaf-blades 1-2| in. long (1) oval acute 

 or (2) oblong-lanceolate, sometimes slightly obovate, serrate in 

 the case of some of the leaves, or more usually entire or subentire, 

 pubescent at first (1) softly, or (2) slightly, soon glabrescent on 

 the upper only or on both surfaces. Catkins 1 in. long or more, 

 $ elongate, 2-2| in. in fruit, greyish-green, with few small basal 

 leaves or ; bracts obovate obtuse (lower pointed), clothed with 

 long silky hair ; ovaries pubescent ; pedicels rather longer than 

 the oblong nectaries ; styles and stigmas long. 



The description of this rare hybrid is made from (1) a more 

 pubescent form in which S. lapponum is the obvious partner 

 (No. 152 hort. = British Willows, No. 53), found on rocks 2 m. N. 

 of Ben Lawers, Perthshire ; and (2) a more glabrous plant only 

 somewhat pubescent at the very first, produced in the garden 

 (No. 171, hort. meo). This latter is very similar to a plant from 

 Glen Doll, Forfarshire (No. 88, hort. meo = British Willows, 

 No. 86, issued as S. lapponum x phylicifolia), which, however, 

 appears to have traces of S. Andersoniana in its leaves and stipules, 

 as well as S. phylicifolia. Europe : France (Puy de Dome) ; 

 Sweden. 



Salix lapponum x repens. 



Syn. S. lapponum-repens Wimmer, Sal. Eur. 241. — S. repens 

 X lapponum Seemen, iv. 279. 



Exs. Magnier, No. 2842. Hb. C. Bailey (Fl. suecica, Pitea, 

 Dr. C. Hakansson). E. F. & W. E. Linton, No. 87. Hb. E. S. 

 Marshall, No. 2963. 



A dwarf shrub, 1-1 1 ft. high, with slender branches silkily 

 pubescent at first, + glabrescent in the winter, darkish brown, 

 now and then shining ; buds shortly oval, pubescent, at length only 

 puberulous. Stipules small lanceolate, rarely seen. Leaf-blades 

 f-l| in. long, lanceolate to oval-oblong, mostly acute, subentire 

 or with minute rather distant teeth, margin somewhat reflexed ; 

 dull green and thinly pubescent above, with some depressed 

 nerves, grey with adpressed or loose silky pubescence beneath. 

 Catkins appearing before the leaves in April or May, subsessile or 

 shortly pedunclecl, with a few small basal leaves ; $ oblong, elon- 

 gate to H or 2 in., bracts rather broadly obovate, rounded or 

 truncate-rounded above, villous towards the top, ovaries conic, 

 white-tomentose then grey-green ; pedicels unequal, many elon- 

 gate, 1-3 times the length of the linear-oblong nectaries ; styles 

 moderately long, stigmas rather shorter than the styles. 



