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f. microphylla, very dwarf, branches 2-3 in. long, leaf-blades 

 I in. long, broadly oval ; catkins about \ in. long, 3-5-flowered ; 

 ovaries pubescent at first becoming glabrous. 



This hybrid was first discovered by me in 1889, at Little 

 Craigindal, Aberdeenshire, grown at Bournemouth, and described 

 (I. c.) in 1894. In 1896 E. S. Marshall found three plants, includ- 

 ing f. microphylla, by the Lochy Burn, Glen Shee, Perthshire ; 

 another plant between Loch Callater and Lochnagar, Aberdeen- 

 shire, in 1903 ; and once more, in Ross-shire (No. 2969), in 1909. 

 There is a foliage specimen in hb. Edinburgh, labelled " St. Kilda, 

 1889, Salix — , A. H. Gibson," which is apparently the same 

 hybrid. 



S. herbacea x repens is endemic in Scotland. 



Salix herbacea x reticulata Linton in Journ. Bot. 1892, 

 365. [S. onychiophylla (S. herbacea x reticulata) N. J. Andersson 

 is S. herbacea x lapponum pr. pte. and S. herbacea x lanata pr. 

 pte., fide Enander, Sal. Scand. exs. i. Nos. 26, 41.] 



Icon. Enander (/. c), i. Nos. 3, 4, 6, 7£, 8. 



Exs. E. F. & W. R. Linton, No. 112. Enander, Nos. 5, 7. 



A dwarf creeping shrub, 3-6 in. high, with branches and buds 

 glabrous or soon glabrescent. Stipules 0. Leaf-blades |-1 in. 

 long, roundly oval, or obovate, entire, pubescent at first, dark 

 green and glabrescent above, glaucous, reticulate with raised 

 veins, and pubescent with long silky hairs beneath. Catkins \ in. 

 long, fl. June, July, on hairy peduncles with 3-4 oval leaves ; 

 bracts broadly obovate rounded at the tip, clothed with long 

 yellowish silky hair, reddish at first then turning dark upwards ; 

 anthers tipped with red ; nectaries long linear, double in the lower 

 and apparently single in the upper flowers. A plant from Meall 

 Ghaordie, Perthshire, with pubescent ovaries and less pubescent 

 bracts drying light brown, is thought by S. J. Enander to be the 

 2 of this hybrid. 



A foliage specimen, collected by W. A. Shoolbred in W. 

 Inverness, is also determined S. herbacea x reticulata by Enander. 

 This has much larger oval-obovate leaf-blades 1-1^ in. long, entire, 

 mostly glabrous, glaucous (and the lower ones silky) beneath, 

 with reddish midribs ; 1-year-old twigs polished dark brown. 



The localities for the three plants regarded as S. herbacea x 

 reticulata are Glen Fiagh, Forfarshire, Meall Ghaordie, Perthshire, 

 and Aonach Beg, Inverness. Europe : Norway, Sweden. 



xiv. Reticulata Anderss. in DC. Prodr. xvi. (2), 300. 



Dwarf shrubs with short branches prostrate or ascending. 

 Leaf-blades orbicular or obovate, glaucous and with raised reticu- 

 late veins beneath. Catkins terminal, long peduncled ; ovaries 

 pubescent subsessile ; nectaries laciniate surrounding their base. 



18. Salix reticulata L. Sp. PI. 1018. Sm. Fl. Brit. 1052 ; 

 in Rees Cycl. 75 ; Engl. Fl. iv. 200. Wade, 218. Seringe, Essai, 

 27. Hartman, 374. Wimmer, Sal. Europ. 129. Anderss. DC. 

 Prodr. xvi. (2), 301. Syme, E. B. viii. 260, t. 1379. B. White, 

 Revision, 443. Camus, Monogr. 129. Seemen, iv. 67. 



