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soil, but neither affords any ground for making variations of the 

 British plant. 



S. herbacea occurs on mountains in three Welsh counties and 

 three in the North of England ; in nearly half the counties of 

 Ireland, and more than half the counties of Scotland. It ascends 

 to 4300 ft. on Ben Nevis, and has been found as low T as 500 ft. in 

 Shetland (W. H. Beeby), and 300 ft. near Oykell Bridge, in- 

 Sutherland (E. S. Marshall). Throughout the Arctic and northern 

 regions of Europe, Asia, and North America ; the Alps of France 

 and Switzerland, Pyrenees, Apennines, Eoumanian and Bulgarian 

 Mountains, Germany, Austria, and Tirol. 



S. herbacea x Andersoniana (p. 65). 

 x arbuscula (p. 72). 

 X aurita (p. 42). 

 X lanata (p. 80). 

 X lapponum (p. 80). 

 x lapponum x myrsinites (p. 81). 

 X myrsinites (p. 82). 

 X phylicifolia (p. 83). 

 x repens (p. 84). 

 x reticulata (p. 85). 



SALIX HERBACEA X LANATA. 



Syn. S. Sadleri Syme in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinb. xii. 208 



(1875), cum tab. — S. Stephania B.White, Eevision, 424. — S. lanata 



X herbacea Lundstrom apud Stromfelt, Sv. Vet.-Akad. Forhandl. 



No. 8, 116 (1884). Linton in Journ. Bot. 1896, 469.— S. Sommcr- 



feltii Anderss. DC. Prodr. xvi. (2), 291, pro pte., fide S. J. Enander. 



Icon. Enander, Sal. Scand. exs. Nos. 41|, 45. 



Exs. Hb. B. White, No. 466. E. F. & W. K. Linton, No. 105. 

 Enander, Nos. 41-46. 



A dwarf shrub with branches somewhat pubescent at first, 

 soon glabrous ; buds oval, glabrescent. Stipules ovate. Leaf- 

 blades f-l| in. long, orbicular or broadly ovate, cordate or rounded 

 at the base, rounded or mucronate or subacute at the tip, crenate- 

 serrate or serrulate or subentire, pubescent while young, soon 

 glabrescent, + glaucous beneath. Catkins 2 , fl. June, July, 

 ^-1 in. long, on lateral leafy peduncles ; bracts roundly obovate 

 or spathulate turning brown above, clothed with long silky hairs ; 

 ovaries subulate to ovoid-conic, chiefly subsessile, glabrous ; pedicels 

 glabrous or sometimes pubescent, the longest about as long as the 

 linear nectaries ; styles and stigmas rather long. 



This rare hybrid has been found in four localities in Perthshire ; 

 in Glen Fiagh, Forfarshire ; and Glen Callater, Aberdeenshire. 

 Europe : Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Finland. 



Salix herbacea x lapponum Lundstrom Studier 6. Salixlaktet 

 (1875), see Enander, exs. No. 26. Seemen, iv. 325. 



Syn. S. ovata (Ser.) Anderss. Sal. Lapp. 81, and DC. Prodr. 

 xvi. (2), 287. — S. phaophylla (S. lapponum x myrsinites) Anderss. 

 in Bot. Not. 16 (1867).— S. sobrina B. White, Eevision, 440. 

 Icon. Enander (in exs.), Nos. 27, 29|, 30, 32, 33, 39*, 40. 



