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A small shrub, 2-4 ft. high, spreading, ascending ; young 

 branches and buds hoary-pubescent. Stipules or minute. Leaf- 

 blades 1-2 in. long, obovate-oblong to oval-lanceolate, narrowed 

 to both ends, entire or crenate-serrate, pubescent or greyish-green 

 above, silvery with silky pubescence beneath. Catkins coeval 

 with the leaves, fl. May, June ; $ flowers not seen ; ? catkins 

 1-H in. long, peduncles with few small leaves below, dense- 

 flowered, hardly elongate ; bracts oblong-obovate, + pointed, silky, 

 discoloured upwards ; pedicels much longer than the shortly 

 oblong nectaries ; ovaries finely grey-pubescent ; styles short, 

 about as long as the stigmas. 



By the Lochy Burn, Glen Shee, E. Perthshire (No. 706, E. S. 

 Marshall) ; a barren bush with larger leaves, probably J , near 

 by (E. F. L.). Clova, Forfarshire (No. 2772, E. S. Marshall). 

 Eeported from Scandinavia, E. Prussia, Silesia, Eussia, Lapland. 

 In hb. Chas. Bailey are good examples labelled " Fl. suecica — 

 Hogheden Lapponiae Pitensis, Dr. C. Hakansson, 1880"; and 

 " Jemtland : Ocke vi, vii. 87, C. F. Sundberg, 2 ." 



Salix capeea x myesinites Linton in Journ. Bot. 1891, 201. 

 Seemen, 255. 



Exs. Hb. E. F. Linton, Nos. 46, 299 ; Suppl. Set, No. 115. 



A small bush with dark branches, pubescent at first ; buds 

 pubescent, then gradually glabrescent. Stipules ^-cordate + acu- 

 minate and serrulate. Leaf-blades lf-2 in. long, shortly oblong- 

 obovate, acute or submucronate, crenate-serrate, softly pubescent 

 at first, shining green, reticulate and glabrescent above, paler 

 green (lower ones shining), reticulate and retaining some pubes- 

 cence on the nerves beneath. Catkins 1 in. long, fl. April (in the 

 garden), bracts narrowly obovate-oblong, bluntly pointed, silky, 

 reddish below the blackened tip ; anthers reddish to reddish- 

 yellow ; 2 1-li in. long, elongating a little; ovaries ovoid-conic, 

 grey-pubescent ; pedicels 2-3 times as long as the square nectaries ; 

 styles and stigmas crimson, rather short. 



The description given above is drawn from two plants raised 

 in the garden from S. caprea ? and S. myrsinites J , and numbered 

 299 a and 299 [3. The wild plant, believed to be the female of this 

 hybrid (No. 46), from Glen Fiagh, Clova, differs in having rather 

 broader more mucronate leaf-blades, with rather more distinct 

 >S'. myrsinites serrations in many of the leaves, obtuse oblong 

 bracts and rather smaller stigmas and styles ; but is otherwise 

 much like the garden hybrid. It bears a good deal of resemblance 

 to S. aurita x myrsinites from the same glen, only with broader, 

 more crenate, and more softly clothed leaf-blades and larger 

 catkins ; just the differences that might be expected from S. 

 caprea taking the place of S. aurita. 



A 8 plant (No. 86), also from Glen Fiagh, was supposed to be 

 this hybrid, but is probably S. Andersoniana x myrsinites. 



S. caprea x myrsinites, having been found only in Glen Fiagh, 

 Forfarshire, is endemic to the British Isles. The $ plant was 

 described in the Journal of Botany, 1894, p. 201, having been 

 grown from cuttings in the garden and kept for several years. 



