74 THE BRITISH WILLOWS 



Mts., Lyon"? " Salix prunifolia. Breadalbane Mts. J. D. 

 Hooker ") ? 



It is very doubtful if any of the British specimens which have 

 been referred to this hybrid have been rightly interpreted. The 

 descriptions given by B. White (I. c.) seem to exclude the presence 

 of S. myrsinites in any of the specimens discussed. 



An attempt to cross S. arbuscula and S. myrsinites in the 

 garden failed to produce any seed. 



The hybrid has been recorded for Scandinavia by Floderus, 

 and for Switzerland by Seemen.] 



Salix aebuscula x phylicifolia. 



[Syn. S. Dicksoniana (Sm.) B. White, Kevision, 412, excluded ; 

 also reference in Seemen, iv. 235. Linton in Journ. Bot. 1896, 468.] 



Exs. Hb. E. S. Marshall, Nos. 1169, 2117 a. 



Very like S. Andersoniana x arbuscula, but with leaf- blades 

 more acuminate, with the tip free from serrations, glabrous almost 

 from the very first, as are the young twigs. In the catkins 

 (fl. May, June) the ovaries are loosely tomentose, subsessile ; bracts 

 narrow oblong, pale nearly two-thirds of their length below the 

 dark subobtuse tip, thinly pubescent ; nectaries slender linear- 

 oblong, as long as the pedicels, at length half as long ; styles 

 medium long, stigmas small. 



Found by E. S. Marshall on Ben Chasteil, Argyllshire, 1893. 

 Not known elsewhere ; endemic in Scotland. 



xi. Nive^e. 



15. Salix lanata L. Sp. PL 1019. Sm. Engl. Fl. iv. 205; in 

 Eees Cycl. 88. Wimmer, Sal. Eur. 2. Anderss. DC. Prodr. xvi. 

 (2), 273. Syme, E. B. viii. 251. B. White, Revision, 421. 



Icon. E. B. S. No. 2624. FL Dan. 245. Syme, E. B. viii. 

 t. 1367 (excluding enlarged stamens). 



Exs. Hb. Linn. Nos. 55, 56, 57. Hb. Smith ("S. lanata, on 

 rocks among ye Clova mtns. sparingly, Mr. T. Drummond, Mr. 

 W. Robertson, 1825 "). Wimmer, Sal. Relict. (Coll. Sal. No. 20). 

 Hb. B. White, Nos. 319, 468. E. F. & W. R. Linton, No. 44. 



A low-growing bush, 2-4 ft. high, with woolly-pubescent 

 young branches and buds ; year-old branches dark brown, here 

 and there a little shining. Stipules foliaceous, often large (J-J in. 

 long), broadly ovate or ovate-lanceolate. Leaf-blades 1-2| in. 

 long by |-2| in. broad, oval or round or oblong-obovate, entire, 

 rounded, cordate or narrowed at the base, often undulate with 

 twisted tip, clothed with long silky hair but sooner or later 

 glabrescent, dull green above (often turning brownish-green when 

 drying), glaucous or glaucous-green markedly reticulate and clothed 

 with long silky hairs beneath. Catkins appearing in June or July 

 with the leaves, often pale yellow at first with the dense yellowish 

 silky hairs of the bracts; <? about 2 in. long, ovoid-oblong, sub- 

 sessile, basal leaves or very few ; bracts narrowly obovate, 

 obtuse or subacute, turning brown at the tip, filaments § in. or 

 more long, glabrous ; nectaries linear-oblong, orange ; $ elongate, 



