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peduncles ; bracts broadly obovate, thinly clothed and ciliate with 

 long silky hairs, somewhat reddish below the dark brown rounded 

 margin ; ovaries ovoid-conic, mostly subsessile, subtomentose at 

 first but soon dark grey and thinly pubescent ; pedicels pubescent, 

 much shorter than the Ungulate or linear-oblong nectaries as a 

 rule, those at the base of the catkin sometimes as long ; styles 

 very long, red-veined, stigmas large bifid. 



S. eugenes is much like a form of 8. herbacea X lapponum, for 

 which it has been mistaken, in habit and general appearance, but 

 differing from it in some points in which the influence of S. myr- 

 sinites is apparent ; leaf-blades of firmer texture, more serrate 

 with serratures erect and not incurved, nerves opaque reddish ; 

 ovaries at length thinly pubescent, with the dark-grey look of the 

 ovaries of S. myrsinites ; nectaries rather broad not merely linear ; 

 styles very long reddish, showing red veining under a lens, stigmas 

 large. The marked reticulation under the leaves in an early stage 

 recalled S. reticulata, which was at first thought to be an element 

 in its composition ; the raised veins, however, and their opacity 

 may be a further evidence of the presence of S. myrsinites. 



This hybrid has been found, on more than one occasion, in a 

 part of Glen Fiagh, Forfarshire, rich in alpine willows. Eecorded 

 by Floderus from Scandinavia. 



SALIX HERBACEA X MYRSINITES. 



Syn. S. Grahami (Borrer MS.) Baker in Journ. Bot. 1867, 

 157. Syme, E. B. viii. 257. J. D. Hooker, Stud. Fl. Brit. Isl. 

 ed. 3, 376. B. White, Eevision, 437. E. F. Linton in Ann. Scot. 

 N. H. (1894), 239, and in Journ. Bot. 1896, 470 (S. myrsinites x 

 herbacea). 



Icon. Journ. Bot. (1867), t. 66 (except glaucous underleaf). 

 Syme, I.e. t. 1377 (enlarged ovary incorrect). 



Exs. Hb. Borrer (" Salix — , Sow of Atholl, J. Ball, from 

 C. C. Babington"). Hb. Edinb. (" S. herbacea L. Eocks above 

 Loch Ceannder, Aug., 1830 " ; " var. elliptica Grev. MS." — this 

 would be from Glen Callater, Aberdeenshire). E. F. & W. E. 

 Linton, No. 25. Hb. E. F. Linton, Nos. 123 /i, 270. 



S. Grahami is a dwarf shrub with a prostrate habit, branches 

 rather long slender, pubescent while young, when 1-year-old 

 + polished dark brown ; buds oval, soon glabrescent. Stipules 

 ovate-oblong, acute or acuminate, rather coriaceous, shining on 

 both sides, often present in cultivation on strong shoots. Leaf- 

 blades |-1 in. (-1$ in. cult.) oval-oblong, at length usually oval- 

 orbicular, subentire when young, then crenate-serrate, rounded or 

 obtuse often apiculate, truncate or rounded at the base, sometimes 

 subcordate, reticulate with raised veins and glossy green on 

 both surfaces, pubescent, becoming glabrous above. Catkins $ , 

 fl. June-July with the leaves, |-f in. long, elongate to 1| in. in 

 fruit, rather lax below, with a few oval leaves on the pubescent 

 peduncle ; bracts involvent oboval with a rounded reddish upper 

 margin, pubescent below and ciliate ; ovaries at length \ in. long, 

 ovoid-conic to ovoid-lanceolate, subsessile or lower shortly pedi- 

 celled, pubescent near the base, otherwise glabrous ; pedicels 



