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Exs. F. Sclmltz, Hb. Norm. No. 1654 (S. vaudensis Forbes). 

 Leefe, Sal. exs. No. 10 (S. vaudensis Forbes), No. 93 (S. nigricans 

 Sm.). Wimmer, Sal. Eelict. (Coll. Sal. No. 74). Hb. Magnier, 

 No. 3662. Hb. B. White, Nos. 57, 58. E. F. & W. E. Linton, 

 No. 93. 



A large, much-branched shrub, young branches and buds 

 persistently pubescent through the winter. Stipules leafy and 

 conspicuous, ^-cordate, + acuminate. Leaf-blades very variable, 

 obovate-oblong to obovate-lanceolate (as in S. strepida Forbes), 

 oval-obovate (as in S. vaudensis Forbes), or oblong-acuminate ; 

 + pubescent above and dull green, sooner or later glabrescent, 

 glaucous and more hairy beneath. Catkins on leafy peduncles, 

 flowering in late April or May rather before the leaves; 2 1^-2 in. 

 long, bracts oboval-oblong, usually obtuse, clothed with long 

 pubescence ; ovaries white-tomentose turning grey-green ; pedicels 

 2-4 times as long as the short quadrate nectaries ; styles long or 

 medium long, with shorter usually undivided stigmas. 



Of specimens in hb. B. White, No. 57, collected by C. Mcintosh 

 from an island in the Biver Tay near Kinnaird House, and No. 58, 

 from Woody Island, show both parents clearly. In some other 

 specimens, the evidence of S. Andersoniana is more doubtful; Dr. 

 White relied too much on the presence of a good style as proving 

 hybridity with S. Andersoniana or S. phylicifolia, unaware that 

 S. cinerea sometimes has a fairly long style, where neither of 

 these two species occur to account for it. 



S. cinerea x Andersoniana has been found in N. Yorks and 

 Northumberland, in Dumfriesshire, Mid and East Perthshire, and 

 Forfarshire. In Europe it is reported from France, Germany, 

 Switzerland, Tirol, Austria, and Sweden. 



Salix cinerea x Andersoniana x phylicifolia, nov. hybr. 



Specimens of this combination do not differ obviously from 

 forms of S. Andersoniana x phylicifolia, but show the influence of 

 S. cinerea in the leaves or stipules, in the bracts or stigmas, and 

 in the striae of the two-year old wood. 



A plant labelled "S. Weigeliana Willd. x S. nigricans Sm., 

 High Force, Teesdale, June, 1890, H. E. Fox," issued through the 

 Botanical Exchange Club, was recognized in my herbarium by 

 S. J. Enander as this triple hybrid ; also, with less confidence, 

 specimens from a bush near Killin, Perthshire, and from another 

 at Clova, Forfarshire. A good intermediate blend of the three 

 parent species is my No. 91 from Moffat, Dumfriesshire ; also 

 No. 704, cult, ex hb. E. S. Marshall, orig. Glen Shee, E. Perth. 

 All of these are $ plants. 



Salix cinerea x phylicifolia E. F. & W. E. Linton in 

 Journ. Bot. 1892, 359. 



Syn. S. laurina Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 122 (1802). Syme, 

 E. B. viii. 235. Anderss. Monogr. 152.— S. bicolor Sm. Engl. Fl. 

 iv. 178.— S. Wardiana (Leefe MS.) B. White, Eevision, 403. 



Icon, E. Bot. t. 1806, 2795 (S. tenuifolia, the plant from 

 Kirby Lonsdale) ; Syme, E. B. viii. t. 1333. 



