76 THE BRITISH WILLOWS 



[Salix lanata x eepens Linton in Journ. Bot. 1898, 124. 



Exs. E. F. & W. K. Linton, Nos. 99, 100, hybrids of garden 

 origin. 



A low-growing bush (No. 99), 2-3 ft. high ; branches and 

 buds pubescent. Stipules ovate-acuminate, rather large. Leaf- 

 blades 1-2 in. long, oval-oblong, rounded at the base, obscurely 

 serrate above the middle with few distant minute teeth, pubescent. 

 Catkins 2 coeval with the leaves in May, 1-2 in. long ; bracts 

 oblong-obovate rounded to subacute at the tip, clothed with much 

 long silky hair ; ovaries subulate, thinly pubescent ; nectaries 

 oblong, half as long as the elongate pedicels ; styles very long, 

 stigmas much shorter. 



No. 100 differs from the above in the oblong-lanceolate leaf- 

 blades sooner glabrescent, less silky catkins, glabrous ovaries and 

 pedicels. The two forms of this hybrid are instructive in the 

 manner of combining characters which are in strong contrast 

 with one another, and producing what is seemingly a new willow 

 with not much resemblance to either parent. Both were the 

 product of S. lanata $ x S. repens 2 •] 



Salix lanata x reticulata. 



[Syn. Exclude x S. super ata B. White, Eevision, 423.] 



Exs. Hb. E. F. Linton, No. 122/?. 



[Exclude B. White, No. 469; and E. F. & W. E. Linton, 

 No. 101.] 



No. 122 p. Branches short rather stout, woolly-pubescent at 

 first, soon glabrous, at length yellowish-brown; buds oval to oval- 

 obovoid sooner or later glabrous. Stipules varying from subulate 

 to ovate-oblong. Leaf-blades j-1^ in. long, obovate entire rounded 

 above, now and then retuse, or (later) apiculate or with a very 

 short point sometimes twisted aside, narrowed gradually to the 

 petiole, hardly any cuneate ; softly pubescent with long silky hairs, 

 usually glabrescent, dull green or yellowish-green (when dried) 

 above, glaucous beneath and very reticulate with veins of greener 

 hue ; rather coriaceous, with veins impressed above and raised 

 beneath on some of the earlier leaves, and w T ith the margin some- 

 times narrowly reflexed. 



The obovoid buds, the uniformly obovate leaf-blades and their 

 base narrowed to the petiole, their coriaceous texture and the 

 presence of impressed veins, separate this plant from those forms 

 of S. herbacea x lanata which most resemble it, and afford fair 

 evidence of S. reticulata. 



The GlenFiagh plant, issued in the Set, No. 101, is somewhat 

 like the above, but lacks the impressed veins, and in E. S. Mar- 

 shall's cult, specimens of the same shows some serration in the 

 leaf-blade, which is evidence of S. herbacea origin. 



A $ plant, found by E. S. Marshall on Meall na Saone in 

 1890, has also been named S. lanata x reticulata ; but this, too, 

 shows in some of its leaf-blades the serration of S. herbacea, and 

 is S. herbacea x lanata. 



S. J. Enander saw B. White's No. 469, the description of which 

 is given in his Eevision (p. 423), and wrote on it, " S. herbacea x 



