358 SOME SCOTTISH WILLOWS, 



of luggage-labels of the smallest possible size. These labels should 

 be numbered consecutively, from one onwards ; and when a plant 

 is gathered, a label with notes of the place, date, and kind of 

 habitat, native name, &c, should be tied to it. This obviates the 

 necessity of any other kind of note-taking, though a diary of notes 

 is always valuable. My experience is that great use can be made of 

 natives, provided you give them something for every plant they 

 bring in ; in every twenty or thirty native porters there is sure to 

 be one good collector, usually, in my experience, somewhat cranky 

 in his ideas and a bad character. Even the best servant will not 

 work for you if you pay him by the day, and an expenditure of a 



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the man who is doing his best should not be discouraged. 



Some naturalists take a supply of spirit for succulent plants and 

 fungi; personally I have avoided this because it always means 

 difficulty with custom-house officials, and because glass or stone 

 bottles are almost certain to break ; while iron tanks or boxes are 

 too heavy to carry if expense is to be avoided. 



SOME SCOTTISH WILLOWS. 



Edward F. Linton, M.A., and Wm. E. Li 



Nearly 



-,_~_. a±± uuo wiuuwa uert! mentioned were observed during 

 two visits to Clova, in the county of Forfar, in 1889 and 1890, and 

 our paper might fairly have been entitled " The Willows of the 

 Cloy a District." The valley, from one to three miles below the 

 Kirk and the Inn, gave very interesting study in complications 

 between the Caprea and S. phylicifolia, S. nigricans, and 8. repens. 

 Lrlen b lagh maintained its high reputation for rare plants in the 

 excellence of the willow hybrids it yielded. Taking in Glen Doll, 

 winch, however, adds nothing to Glen Fiagh, it will be found a 

 remarkably rich district, in spite of the absence of S. Arbmcula L., 

 and the rare occurrence of S. reticulata L. 



Many of the willows here dealt with have been studied in culti- 

 vation, and have been grown in two very different soils, deep and 

 neavy at Shirley, sandy and peaty but of necessity improved by 

 admixture at Bournemouth. The former has favoured vigorous 

 vegetative growth, the latter rapid and abundant development of 

 nowers. It is needless to point out the advantages of this bifarious 

 mode of treatment. Strange to say, the light sandy soil has proved 

 no impediment to the growth of willows ; the presence of peat in 

 me sou has been an assistance to some, e.g., 8. Lapponum; and 

 any descriptions that have had to be drawn from cultivated speci- 



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purposes 



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wW Lou f! 1 f QOut 1 h -g roWG specimens, as deviating the least from 

 what would have been developed in a natural situation. 



ihe chief diflerence that strikes us between the wild and the 



