362 SOME SCOTTISH WILLOWS. 



leaves. 



and exhibit 



a Myrsinites polish. The ovaries are tomentose, closely packed, 

 narrow ovoid-conic, rather short, with a good style, and divided 

 stigmas ; pedicel three times as long as the nectary ; the broad 

 obovate-spathulate scale clasping the ovary, shaded through pink 

 to a dark brown rim. The young leaves, when the ovaries are half- 

 matured, shine on both sides, and are reticulate beneath. 



S. Caprea x nigricans (S. latifolia Forbes). — From Ciova Valley, 

 one bush only for certain, the cutting from which (in cultivation at 

 Shirley) has turned out male. 



S. nigricans X phylicifolia (Wimmer). — We take this name in 

 Wimmer's sense as representing the series of hybrids between the 

 two species, S. nigricans and 8. phylicifolia. The Clova district is 

 rich in both, and also in intermediates, which we believe for the 

 most part to be of hybrid origin. The series of intermediates 

 naturally presents a wide amount of variation, as both species vary 

 considerably, and also because indefinite crossing has taken place 

 in the lapse of time, not only between the two species, but between 

 the intermediates and the original species, and between the inter- 

 mediates themselves. In the Clova Valley we have gathered forms 

 of the hybrid, (1) a mile below the Hotel, leaf specimens in 1889; 

 (2) from the same locality, a male with broader leaves, in 1889 ; 

 and (3) from Bradoonie, a broad-leaved female form, in the same 

 year. From Glen Fiagh we have gatherings from no less than live 

 different bushes, all female, and all obtained in 1890, chiefly from 

 the head of the glen. We consider now, after cultivation, that the 

 plant from Glen Doll, sent up to the Bot. Exch. Club in 1890 by 

 W. R. Linton, collected on July 14th, and labelled S. nigricans X 



if 



White 



Two of the valley plants above 



by him to come best under this hybrid. 



S* nigricans Sm., var. rupestris Sm., Glen Fiagh, has come in 

 our way, but we did not happen to take cuttings, and have not 

 tested the plant in cultivation. 



8. Lapponum x phylicifolia. — A small plant in Glen Doll 

 attracted the attention of one of us in July, 1890, as having the 

 wood and leaf-shape of S. phylicifolia, but the young leaves and 

 twigs covered with dense white down, and the margin of all the 

 leaves being entire. There was a suspicion of Lapponum from the 

 first, but we have so often supposed broad-leaved forms of S. Lap- 

 ponum with a greener than usual upper surface to be the hybrid 



found 



Water 



selves, and a third gathered by Messrs. Hanbury and Marshall on 

 Meall Buidhe, Argyll, in 1889, and had afterwards to give them 

 up, that we were not confident about this plant. In cultivation at 

 Bournemouth it has flowered in the spring of this year, and proves 

 to be male. The contrast between this and various forms of 8. 



wn 



au we same garden snow at once tliat it is no 

 form of that species. It has rather the appearance, in its summer 



foliage, of a form of S. niaricans with its broad ollint.ift dnwnv Wvp.s. 



