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stipules, in the Kennet Valley near Newbury, and in the Loddon dis- 

 trict near Hurst. It is not improbably the offspring of three species. 

 The viminalis parentage is pronounced, but the broader leaves and the 

 pubescence show that cinerea or caprea may have been also the pro- 

 genitors. 



S. viminalis occurs in all the bordering counties. 



S. Smithiana, Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. ii. 1008 (1809). 



S. mollissima, Sm. Fl. Brit. iii. 1070, not of Ehrhart. >S. cinerea- 

 viminalis, Wimm. Sal. Eur. 181. 



Top. Bot. 375. Syme, E. B. viii. 227, t. 1324. Nyman, 666. Fl. Oxf. 273. 

 Native. Septal. Sides of ponds and streams, hedges, &c. Bather 



common. Shrub or small tree. April. 

 First record. S. caprea acuto longoque folio. Found frequently about 

 Oxford, Sherard, in Ray, Syji. 238, 1690. Definitely recorded by 

 the author in Flora 0/ Oxfordshire, 273, 1886. 

 1. Isis. Cumnor. Wytham Park. 2. Ock. Uffington. Abing- 



don. Steventon. Boar's Hill. Wootton. South Hinksey. 

 Frilford. Wantage. Near Sunningwell. Kadley. 3. Pang. 

 Pangbourn. Standford Dingley. Bradfield. Tilehurst, 

 4. Kennet. Theale. 5. Loddon. Knowl Hill. Wargrave. 



Kuscombe. 

 Var. SERiCANS, F. B. White, I.e. 417. S. sericans, Tausch, in Verh. 

 Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien. x. (1860)214. S. viminalis x caprea. S. caprea x 

 viminalis, Wimm. Sal. Eur. i']8, forma latifolia, Anderss. I have seen it 

 near Radley, Wantage, &c. Some of the above records belong to it. 



Var. vELtrriNA, F. B. White, 1. c. 418. S. veluiina, Schrad. ex Koch, 

 Syn. Fl. Germ. 650(1837). S. viminalis x caprea. S. viminalis x cinerea. 

 ? S. rugosa, Leefe. 



This is probably the plant of Sherard alluded to above. 



1. Isis. Near Wytham. 2. Ock. South Hinksey. Kennington. 



Near Abingdon. 

 S. AURiTA X VIMINALIS, Wimm. Sal. Eur. S. fruticosa, Doell, Fl. Bad. 

 515. S. viminalis y aurita, E, F. Linton, Lend. Cat. ed. 9. 



To this should be referred a plant I gathered near Radley ; it occurs 

 also near Didcot and Ruscombe. 



Var. FERRUGiNEA, F. B. White, 1. c. 418. S. ferrxiginea, G. Anderson ex 

 Forbes Salict. Woburn, 255. ? S. cinerea x viminalis, Wimmer, Sal. Eur. 

 Syme, E. B. viii. 228, t. 1325. Fl. Oxf. 274. 



1. Isis. Near Appleton. Wytham. 2. Ock. South Hinksey. 



Marcham. Near Kennington. Wantage. 4. Kennet. By 



the Thames near Reading, G. Anderson, E. B. Suppl. t. 2665. 

 Theale. 5. Loddon. By the Thames, near Windsor, 



G. Anderson. Near Hurst. Near Bray. 



