220 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
seen only dried and cultivated specimens, so I follow Mr. Borrer’s 
description in “Engl. Bot.” Suppl.:—“ Shrub 6 feet high or a little 
more branched from the base. Branches procumbent at their origin, 
then upright, straight and wandlike at first, afterwards producing 
numerous small twigs, silky while very young, soon denuded, of a 
greenish ash colour, sometimes tinged with purple, old bark grey, not 
so remarkably yellow within as in the monandrous species, buds red, 
slightly downy. Leaves on short broadish foot-stalks, some of the 
lower ones in pairs, the rest spirally scattered.” Largest leaves 1 to 
1} inch long, shaped like those of S. purpurea, but with the texture 
and reticulation, when dry, of those of S. repens, at first more or less 
thickly clothed with shining silky hairs, which soon disappear from the 
upper surface, and partially from the lower. Female catkins } to 
8 inch long. Catkin-scales purplish, nearly black at the apex, shorter 
than the capsules. Capsules silky white, blunt at the apex. 
On the Continent the male catkins have been found, and are about 
8 inches long, the anthers are at first reddish, afterwards becoming 
fuscous; the filaments united from the base for about three parts of 
their length. 
Wimmer mentions a form in which the capsules are glabrous. In 
his specific description he gives “germina ... sessilia,” but this 
seems to be an error, as in the detailed description he states: 
“oermina... in pedicello } germinis longitudine.” He says it isa 
shrub 2 to 3 feet high. 
Donian Willow. 
SPECIES (?) X SALIX R UBRA. Huds. 
Prarrs MCCCXIX. MCCCXX. MCCCXXI. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. XI. Tab. DUXXXVI Fig. 1286. 
Billot, Fl. Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 286. 
S. viminalis-purpurea, Wimm. Sal. Europ. p. 173. 
Leaves alternate, rarely subopposite, strapshaped-elliptical or oblon,. 
elliptical, broadest near the middle or a little beyond it, acute or 
acuminate or oblong-oblanceolate, very faintly and bluntly serrate, 
bright green, smooth, and rather glossy above, paler or glaucous 
beneath, at length generally glabrous on both sides, rarely silky-hairy 
beneath. Stipules lanceolate, often absent. Catkins opening before 
the leaf-buds expand; the male catkins subsessile, with small non- 
foliaceous bracts at the base, cylindrical, thick, dense, at first erect, 
afterwards spreading, recurved-spreading; female catkins rather thick, 
dense, suberect, with a few foliaceous bracts at the base. Catkin- 
scales oval-oblanceolate, blunt, pilose. Stamens 2, with the filaments 
combined only at the base, or united to the apex, pilose at the base. 
Capsule ovate-conical, acuminate, tomentose, subsessile; style as long 
