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the fresh plant. This has a peculiarly neat, erect, and compact, 
rigid habit, and the flowers which are tipped with a rich purple 
or magenta give it a striking and beautiful appearance. These 
characters are, however, less marked in the plant from Glen 
SHALL. 
x tomentosa [ref. No. 3381]. Garve, 
: 1909. This, from its characters, I 
believe to be a hybrid between the ‘wee ing’ form of B. alba 
(B. pendula Roth.) and B. tomentosa (pubescens Ebrh.). Branches 
drooping ; intermediate in foliage and catkins. Lateral lobes of 
female catkin-scales mostly spreading, sometimes rather recurved. 
It occurred in two different forms.—E. 8. Marsnann. Also sent 
by W. A. Shoolbred [ref. Nos. 686A and 688A}. We cannot 
satisfy ourselves that this is a hybrid. The leaves are entirely 
those of verrucosa, with just a few scattered hairs on their margins. 
And the fruit is not broadly oboval. The catkin-scales are perhaps 
intermediate in shape between those of the two species; but 
2 Aave reason to think that little reliance should be placed on 
this distinctive feature. In Koch’s descriptions (ed. iii.) no pro- 
ra place is given to the catkin-scales.—C. BucKNaLn and 
HITE. 
“Saliz Doniana Sm. = S. purpurea x repens ? By the Cher- 
well, the Parks, Oxford, September, 1909. Formerly grown in 
the Salicetum at the Botanic Gardens, then removed to this 
locality. The labels of these willows are now mostly lost or mis- 
descriptions of that plant are very precise from Sm. Engl. Fl. iy. 
213, to Syme, E. B. (3rd ed.) viii. 219; garden specimens are 
preserved in Hb. Borrer at Kew; and also widely distributed 
through well-known sets, for there can, I think, be no doubt that 
Leefe’s Sal. Exs. iy. 99, and our Set of British Willows, No. 6, are 
actual descendants of Borrer’s plant. I have garden specimens 
pegs eve for different gardens, and can make allowance for 
Such Variation as can be caused by wet and ground, exposure 
and shade: but it is impossible ue identify tne deteed plant with 
