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distinct variety. Andersson's plant may be (or at least include) a 

 small form of the hybrid S. ambigua, as he himself suspected. 



A variable species within well-defined limits in the British 

 Isles, and not easily confused with S. cinerea. On the Continent 

 wider variation occurs, some forms being marked by larger and 

 sometimes smoother leaves. For instance, of three sheets of S. 

 aurita in the Herb. Europ. of Dr. G. Baenitz (not numbered), that 

 of (1) "PL Marchica, leg. Kiese," alone is one of our forms; (2) 

 the plant of " PL Silesiaca, leg. C. Baenitz," has rather larger, 

 smoother leaves ; and in (3) " Badenia, leg. Dr. Schatz," the leaf- 

 blades run to 2| in. long, are smooth and much like those of 

 typical S. cinerea in size and shape, though the plant is appa- 

 rently pure S. aurita. 



Ascending from sea-level to 2200 ft. in the Highlands, S. aurita 

 is recorded from all but a very small number of counties, and pro- 

 bably occurs in all. Like S. caprea, it is usually found in drier 

 situations than S. cinerea. It is distributed through Central and 

 Northern Europe, from France and Scandinavia eastwards ; Cau- 

 casus, N. Persia. 



Salix aurita x caprea (p. 40). 

 X cinerea (p. 41). 

 X cinerea x Andersoniana (p. 42). 

 x cinerea x pliylicifolia (p. 42). 

 X herbacea (p. 42). 

 X lapponum (p. 43). 

 x myrsinites (p. 43). 

 X myrsinites x Andersoniana (p. 44). 

 X Andersoniana (p. 45). 

 x Andersoniana x pliylicifolia (p. 45). 

 x 'phylicifolia (p. 45). 

 X purpurea (p. 23). 

 X purpurea x phylicifolia (p. 24). 

 X re-pens (p. 46). 

 X viminalis (p. 30). 



Salix aurita x caprea. 



Syn. S. caprea-aurita Wimmer, Denkschr. Schles. Gesellsch. 

 (1853), 163; Sal.. Eur. 200. — S. capreola Kerner in Anderss. 

 Monogr. 79 ; DC. Prodr. xvi. (2), 223. B. White, Kevision, 387.— 

 S. caprea x aurita Seemen, iv. 219. — S. aurita x caprea Giirke, 

 PI. Eur. ii. 10. Camus, Monog. 346. 



Icon. Camus, Atlas, pi. 31, h-l. 



Exs. Hb. Borrer (" S. caprea ? Wood near Brodie House," 

 and " S. caprea, New Hall, Mead Style, 3/26. 1815"). Wimmer, 

 Sal. Eelict. (Herb. Sal. No. 56; Coll. Sal. Nos. 25, 188, and b). 

 Hb. Boswell (with S. caprea, four pieces of foliage and fruiting 

 catkins out of six, " N. Surrey, H. C. Watson, 1865"). Hb. B. 

 White, Nos. 344, 356, 410. E. F. & W. R. Linton, No. 90. Hb. 

 E. S. Marshall, No. 126. 



This hybrid has great resemblance to forms of S. caprea, with 

 some of its parts of smaller size. It differs from S. caprea usually in 



