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British origin. It is known only in gardens at the present time, 

 and for a long while past. 



S. repens is a plant of damp spots on heaths and commons, 

 preferring peaty and sandy soils ; rare, if not absent, on heavy 

 soils ; not very common on mountains, but ascending to 2500 ft. 

 (or 2800 ft., fide B. White) in the Highlands ; most abundant in 

 damp hollows and flats among seaside sandhills, forming some- 

 times a dense carpet with its matted stems. Unrecorded for some 

 few counties in Wales and the South of Scotland, otherwise 

 almost universal throughout Great Britain ; more local in Ireland, 

 but recorded for all but six counties. Generally distributed through 

 Northern and Central Europe and Asia, and extending southwards 

 to N. Italy, Spain and Portugal. 



S. repens x Andersoniana (p. 67). 

 x aurita (p. 46). 

 x caprea (p. 53). 

 x cinerea (p. 57). 

 x herbacea (p. 84). 

 x lapponum .(p. 37). 

 X phylicifolia (p. 71). 

 x purpurea (p. 26). 

 X viminalis (p. 60). 



SALIX REPENS X VIMINALIS. 



Syn. S. viminalis -repens Lasch, Wimmer, Sal. Eur. 241 ; 

 B. White, Eevision, 391. Seemen, iv. 279. — S. Friesiana Anderss. 

 Monogr. 121. — S. repens x viminalis E. S. Marshall & W. A. 

 Shoolbred in Journ. Bot. 1898, 175. 



Icon. Forbes, t. 87. Anderss. Monogr. t. vi. f. 66. 



Exs. Leefe, Sal. exs. No. 19. Wimmer, Sal. Eelict. (Herb. 

 Sal. 144; Coll. Sal. 255, 256). Baenitz, Hb. Europ. (Schwerin, 

 leg. A. Toepffer). E. F. & W. E. Linton, No. 98. Hb. E. S. Mar- 

 shall, No. 1928. 



Stems spreading or erect, 2-6 ft. high, branches slender, 

 pubescent at first ; buds oval to oval-oblong, pubescent. Stipules 

 linear to lanceolate. Leaf-blades 2-3 in. long, oblong-lanceolate, 

 more rarely linear-lanceolate, entire with the margins sometimes 

 recurved ; green and glabrescent above, pale green or more 

 commonly silvery beneath with silky adpressed pubescence which 

 is + subpersistent. Catkins appearing before the leaves, in April; 

 $ f in. long, ovoid, very silky ; $ 1-1| in. long, ovoid-oblong to 

 cylindric; bracts obovate (often broadly), silky, turning dark 

 brown in the upper part ; ovaries ovoid-conic, pubescent ; pedicels 

 1-2 times as long as the linear-oblong nectaries ; styles rather 

 long, usually longer than the stigmas. 



The description is based chiefly on specimens of several plants 

 raised in the garden by design (Set No. 98) ; with the more silkily 

 pubescent-leaved forms of these the plant discovered by E. S. 

 Marshall in Sutherlandshire agrees well. In Europe, it occurs in 

 Germany, and is reported from Lower Austria, Eussia, and 

 Scandinavia. 



