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pubescent, not exceeding the oval-oblong nectaries ; styles long, 

 stained or veined with red, stigmas rather large, bifid. 



A somewhat similar plant, with the leaf-blades of a less glossy 

 green, the ovaries thinly pubescent all over, + glabrescent in the 

 lower part, and with broadly linear nectaries, was gathered on 

 Meall na Saone, Perthshire, in 1891 (No. 123 J3), and shows the 

 same rubescence of the bracts, styles and stigmas as S. Grahami. 

 Probably both plants are of the same parentage. 



S. herbacea x myrsinites has occurred in Perthshire, Glen 

 Callater, Aberdeenshire, and at Frouvyn, Sutherland. Eeported 

 from Tirol and Scandinavia (excluding S. Sommerfeltii Andersson, 

 which S. J. Enander states is S. herbacea x lapponum, pr. pte., 

 and S. herbacea x lanata, pro pte.). 



Salix heebacea x phylicifolia Linton in Journ. Bot. 1896, 

 470, 471. 



Icon. Enander, Sal. Scand. exs. No. 22. 



Exs. E. E. & W. E. Linton, No. 108. (For S. Moorei, 

 No. 109, see below.) 



The plant (No. 108, supra), raised from seed of S. herbacea $ , 

 fertilized by S. phylicifolia $ , and grown at Bournemouth, is a 

 small shrub of suberect habit with glabrous branches and buds. 

 Stipules rare, minute ovate. Leaf-blades ovate- to obovate-oblong, 

 serrate, glabrous, pale green or glaucous beneath. Catkins 2 , 

 dense-flowered in April or May, f-lj in. long, on short 2-4-leaved 

 pubescent peduncles ; bracts narrow oblong to obovate-oblong, 

 obtuse rarely subacute, slightly pubescent with long white hairs ; 

 ovaries ovoid-conic, grey-pubescent; pedicels about as long as the 

 oblong nectaries, the lower ones often longer ; styles long, stigmas 

 divided nearly as long. 



This form of the hybrid has the habit and appearance of a 

 S. phylicifolia form ; so much so that S. J. Enander, on first 

 seeing specimens (No. 108, in the British Museum), named it 

 "S. phylicifolia var." 



Very different in habit is the Irish plant known as S. Moorei, 

 which, whether its other parent was S. phylicifolia or not, has 

 obvious affinity with S. herbacea. 



Syn. x S. Moorei (" Watson, L. C") B. White, Eevision, 

 438.-6'. Grahami D. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1871, 300. Bab. Man. 

 ed. viii. 331. — £. Grahami Baker b. Moorei Lond. Cat. ed. 7. — 

 S. herbacea x phylicifolia Linton in Journ. Bot. 1896, 470. 



Exs. E. E. & W. E. Linton, No. 109. 



A dwarf low-growing shrub, stems decumbent or ascending, 

 branches pubescent at first, soon glabrous, at length + polished 

 dark brown; buds ovoid-oblong acute to subacute, soon glabrescent. 

 Stipules 0. Leaf-blades |-2 in. long, oval to oval-oblong, serrate 

 or crenate-serrate, tip entire, pubescent at first, soon glabrous, 

 shining and at length reticulate above, paler green not shining 

 beneath. Catkins |-l£ in. long, fl. May with the leaves, on 

 pubescent 3-4-leaved peduncles, lax-flowered below ; bracts linear- 

 oblong to oblong-spathulate, thinly hairy on and near the margins, 

 reddish above ; ovaries \ in. (or $ in. with the style) ovoid-lanceo- 



