52 THE BRITISH WILLOWS 



SALIX OAPBEA X AXDERSONIANA. 



Syn. S. latifolia Forbes, Sal. Wob. No. 118. B. White, 406. 

 —S. caprea-nigricans Wimmer, Sal. Eur. 226. — S. caprea x 

 nigricans Seem en, 243. 



Icon. Forbes (I.e.). 



Exs. Leefe, Sal. exs. iii. 69. Hb. B. White, No. 32. E. F. 

 & W. E, Linton, No. 38. Hb. W. E, Linton, Nos. 159a, 302. 



A shrub, 5-10 ft. high, twigs and buds clothed with sub- 

 persistent pubescence. Stipules foliaceous, roundish, obliquely 

 pointed, upper often acuminate. Leaf-blades oval- to obovate- 

 oblong shortly acuminate, somewhat narrowed at the base, 

 crenate-serrate or crenate, densely pubescent on both sides at 

 first, glabrescent and dull green on the upper surface, grey- 

 pubescent beneath, blackening somewhat when dried. Catkins 

 preceding the leaves in May, $ about 1 in. long, with a few small 

 basal leaves, 2 1-1 J in. long, not much elongate ; bracts narrowly 

 obovate, obtuse to subacute hairy ; ovaries grey-tomentose ; pedicels 

 3-4 times as long as the shortly oblong or quadrate nectaries ; 

 styles and stigmas usually shorter than in S. An&zrsoniana. 



A hybrid with $ flowers, produced in the garden at Shirley, 

 with obovate acuminate leaf-blades rather coarsely crenate-serrate, 

 differs but little from the above description. 



S. caprea x Andersoniana has been found in Eoxburghshire 

 (hb. A. Ley) ?, Dumfriesshire, Perthshire, and Forfarshire. Europe : 

 Scandinavia, Finland, Germany, Austria, and Tirol. 



SALIX CAPREA X PHYLICIFOLIA. 



Syn. S. caprea-phylicifolia Wimmer, Denkschr. d. Schles. 

 Gesellsch. 67. Seemen, iv. 244. — S. caprea-Weigeliana Wimmer, 

 Sal. Eur. 215, pro parte ? 



Exs. In Hb. Bailey are four sheets of this hybrid, all 

 labelled S. laurina, viz. (1) Wirtgen Herb. PL Sel. Fl. Ehenan. vi. 

 260 ; (2) Eeichb. Fl. Germ. 1020 ; (3) Wimmer 90 (ex hort. Berol) ; 

 and (4) " S. laurina (S. bicolor x caprea), Thur., Weimar, 

 J. Bornmuller." Hb. E. F. Linton, No. 78 (36). 



A large shrub, with branches soon becoming glabrous and at 

 length dark brown polished in parts ; buds hairy only at first. 

 Stipules ^-cordate rounded to acuminate. Leaf-blades 1^-2| in. 

 long, ovate or obovate, submucronate to subacuminate, ovate or 

 rounded below, crenate or crenate-serrate, softly villous on both 

 sides while young, green, slightly shining and glabrescent above, 

 glaucous-green and with partially persistent pubescence on the 

 nerves beneath. Catkins, flowering in April or May, ? about lin. 

 long, somewhat elongate in fruit ; bracts spathulate or oblong, 

 subacute or subobtuse, hairy ; ovaries ovate-conic tomentose ; 

 pedicels much longer than the quadrate or shortly oblong 

 nectaries; style and stigmas moderately long, about equal in 

 length. 



Perthshire plants from Glen Shee (hb. E. S. Marshall, No. 712) 

 and from Killin may with some certainty be assigned to this 

 hybrid. A curious plant from the Clova Valley, some 3 m. below 

 Clova, Forfarshire (hb. E. F. Linton, No. 36 and 78), answers 



