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specimens named var. oleifolia prove to be S. aurita x cinerea (as 

 Wimmer had previously observed, I.e. p. 202), goes on to remark 

 that in several places in Perthshire, where both S. aurita and 

 S. cinerea grew together, he had met with many intermediate 

 forms, some of which, differing slightly from S. cinerea, he 

 suspected to be "hybrids of S. cinerea with x S. lutescens." 



S. aurita x cinerea has been recorded in many counties from 

 Cornwall and Kent to Lancashire and Yorkshire ; in Scotland, 

 from Dumfriesshire, Eoxburghshire, Selkirkshire, Stirlingshire, 

 Dumbartonshire, Perthshire, Forfarshire, Kincardine, and Caith- 

 ness ; in Ireland, Limerick. Down, Antrim. Europe : France, 

 Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Bohemia, Galicia, Russia, 

 Scandinavia. 



SALIX AURITA X CINEREA X ANDERSONIANA. 



Exs. Leefe, Sal. exs. iv. 87 ( U S. Waldsteiniana Forbes, not of 

 Willdenow, Koch, 658, received from Woburn, &c"). Hb. J. 

 Fingland, No. 253 $ . Hb. B. White, Nos. 245? 415, 442 (all as 

 S. strepida). 



Leefe's specimens show signs of all three species ; S. Ander- 

 soniana contributing an elongate style and discoloration of the 

 leaves, which in form and texture are much like those of S. 

 lutescens ; the stipules, as well as the leaf-blades, showing the 

 presence of S. aurita. 



Fingland 's No. 253 is similarly like an intermediate form 

 of S. lutescens, with a leaf-discoloration in evidence of S. 

 Andersoniana. 



No. 253 was found near Thornhill, Dumfriesshire ; B. White's 

 specimens are from the neighbourhood of Perth, and resemble 

 forms of S. lutescens Kerner, with evidence of S. Andersoniana 

 clearly marked. 



SALIX AURITA X CINEREA X PHYLICIFOLIA. 



Exs. Hb. B. White, Nos. 188 (as S. Wardiana), 420? Hb. 

 J. Fingland, Nos. 295, 330. 



Shrubs resembling a small-leaved form of S. lutescens Kerner, 

 but with the earliest leaves glabrous and later ones + glabrescent, 

 and the bark of the one-year-old branches partially or decidedly 

 showing a polished dark brown surface. Stipules i-cordate-acute 

 suberect or twisted aside ; leaf-blades obovate-cuneate to oval- 

 oblong, serrate more than crenate-serrate, acute to shortly acumi- 

 nate, tip often twisted, later softly pubescent ; ovaries slender, 

 silvery ; bracts narrow oblong to obovate-oblong silkily pubescent ; 

 pedicels about three times as long as the quadrate nectaries; 

 styles long or medium long with small stigmas. 



Near Thornhill, Dumfriesshire, Nos. 295 and 330, two bushes 

 much resembling one another, but not identical. Also from 

 Woody Island, in R. Tay, near Perth. 



SALIX AURITA X HERBACEA. 



Syn. S. Margarita B. White, Revision, 441.— S. herbacea x 

 aurita Richter-Giirke, Plant. Europ. ii. 37. Seemen, iv. 323. 



Exs. Hb. B. White, Nos. 368, 369. E. F. & W. R. Linton, 

 No. 91. 



