68 THE BRITISH WILLOWS 



The plant issued by Baenitz (from Innsbruck, Tirol) under this 

 name seems to me merely S. nigricans ? , i. e. S. Andersoniana. 



[Salix Andersoniana x reticulata. 



Syn. x S. semireticulata (S. reticulata x nigricans ?) B.White, 

 Revision, 444. Quoted by Seemen, iv. 327. 



Exs. Hb. B. White, No. 402 ; with which is associated No. 403, 

 and from Hb. Smith, " Salix elliptica, nov. sp., Clova Mountains, 

 Mr. Thomas Drummond, Mr. W. Robertson, 1825." 



Branches slender, trailing, very pubescent, at length glabrous 

 dark brown shining, buds ovate pubescent, becoming glabrous. 

 Stipules rarely formed, roundish-ovate. Leaf-blades |-1 in. long, 

 3-4 times as long as the woolly petiole, broadly or roundly oblong, 

 obtuse, truncate or subcordate at the base, slightly crenate-serrate 

 to entire, + hairy at first, dark green, glabrescent above and nearly 

 so beneath, margins slightly reflexed, veins impressed above, 

 reticulate and somewhat raised beneath. Catkins on 3-4-leaved 

 peduncles as long as the catkins, short, ovate, close-flowered ; 

 Dracts broadly spathulate, rounded above, clothed with long white 

 hairs, reddish below the blackened tip ; ovaries subulate-conic, 

 pubescent above, glabrous or glabrescent in the lower half ; 

 pedicels silky, equal to or shorter than the linear-oblong nectaries ; 

 stigmas bifid, yellow, as long as the moderate styles. 



This description is based on the specimens of No. 402 and the 

 description of the plant by B. White (I. c. p. 444). The plant 

 appears to be a hybrid between two species with a glabrous and 

 a pubescent ovary, and in some respects to have affinity with 

 S. herbacea rather than with S. reticulata (see p. 65). On a 

 minute catkin specimen supplied me by B. White, S. J. Enander 

 commented in 1909, " S. herbacea x reticulata mihi videtur." 



Nos. 402, 403 were gathered on Meall Ghaordie, Perth- 

 shire. 



Dr. B. White associates with them a plant in Smith's her- 

 barium labelled " Salix elliptica, nov. sp., Clova Mountains, Mr. 

 Thos. Drummond, Mr. W. Robertson, 1825 " ; with a pencil note, 

 " I have this as a rounder-leaved var. of S. myrsinites." This 

 plant, however, has nothing to do with S. myrsinites, nor with 

 S. reticulata. It is S. herbacea x lapponum. 



On the whole, the evidence for retaining S. Andersoniana X 

 reticulata in the list is not satisfactory.] 



13. Salix phylicifolia L. Sp. PI. 1016. Sm. Fl. Brit. 1049, 

 1053 ; Engl. Fl. iv. 170 ; in Rees Cycl. 15. Anderss. Monogr. 

 131 ; DC. Prodr. xvi. (2), 241. Syme, E. B. viii. 237. B. White, 

 Revision, 396. Camus, Monogr. 189. Seemen, iv. 140. — S. bicolor 

 Ehrh. Beitr. v. 162 (1790). — S. Croiveana Sm. Fl. Brit. 1043 ; 

 Engl. Fl. iv. 193 (pr. pte.).— S. radicans Sm. Fl. Brit. 1053.— 

 S. Weigeliana Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 2678 (1806). Wimmer, Sal. Eur. 

 76.-6'. Borreriana $ Sm. Engl. Fl. iv. 174.— S. Davalliana Sm. 

 Engl. Fl. iv. 175. — S. tenuior Borrer, E. B. S. 2650 (saltern pr. 

 pte.). Syme, E. B. viii. 239. 



Icon. E. Bot. 1390 (S. Dicksoniana) ?, 1598. E. B. S. 2656, 



