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lanceolate, usually broadest above tbe middle, narrowed to each 

 end ; subentire or with minute teeth, firm in texture, subcoriacous; 

 green and subglabrous above, pubescent below and becoming rust- 

 coloured with rusty hairs. Not differing from the type in flowers 

 or fruit. 



Such are Smith's descriptions condensed ; and his distinctions 

 are useful for classifying specimens of a variable species in large 

 herbaria. In these, forms of S. lutescens are often found named 

 S. oleifolia Sm. ; and S. aquatica has sometimes proved to be a 

 form of S. caprea x cinerea ; but after deducting the hybrids 

 which have been confused with and labelled S. aquatica or 

 S. oleifolia, there still remain forms of S. cinerea, which answer 

 to the descriptions of these two Smithian " species." 



S. cinerea is recorded for nearly all the counties of England 

 and Scotland, and probably occurs in all, and for all the divisions 

 of Ireland. It is found through almost the whole of Europe ; in 

 Eastern and Northern Asia ; and N. Africa. 

 S. cinerea x aurita (p. 41). 



X aurita x Andersoniana (p. 42). 



X aurita x pliylicifolia (p. 42). 



X caprea (p. 48). 



x Andersoniana (p. 55). 



X Andersoniana x phylicifolia (p. 56). 



X phylicifolia (p. 56). 



X purpurea (p. 25). 



X repens (p. 57). 



X viminalis (p. 31). 

 [Salix cinerea x myrsinites Linton in Journ. Bot. (1898), 

 124. Seemen, iv. 255. 



Exs. E. F. & W. R. Linton, No. 92. Hb. E. E. Linton, 

 No. 278. 



A compact, much-branched bush, 3-5 ft. in height, with dark 

 brown branches, somewhat polished when at length glabrous. 

 Stipules broadly f-cordate acuminate, subpersistent. Leaf-blades 

 l|-2 in. long, usually ovate-oblong, crenate to crenate-serrate, 

 shining above, glaucous-green beneath (earliest leaves shining 

 green). Catkins, $ , appearing before the leaves in early May, 

 1-1J in. long, filaments pubescent in the lower half, anthers dull 

 red shading off to yellow. 



This handsome shrub was raised in a Bournemouth garden 

 from S. cinerea <? and S. myrsinites $ , and has been sent out 

 to Botanic Gardens as No. 278. It is recorded by 0. von Seemen 

 (I. c.) from the Tirol.] 



Salix cinerea x Andersoniana. 



Syn. S. strepida Forbes, Sal. Wob. No. 100. B. White, 

 Revision, 408. — S. vaudensis Forbes, No. 117. — S. nigricans x 

 cinerea Wimmer, Denkschr. Schles. Gesell. Vaterl. cult. 189(1853). 

 — S. puberula Doell. 518. Anderss. DC. Prodr. xvi. (2), 249.— 

 S. cinerea-nigricans Wimmer, Sal. Eur. 224. — S. cinerea x 

 nigricans Linton in Journ. Bot. 1892, 359. 

 Icon. Forbes, Nos. 100, 117. 



