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and fruiting catkins give certain evidence, if obscure, of S. Myrsinites. 

 These are all from Glen Fiagh. From Glen Doll we have good 

 fruiting specimens of a fine intermediate plant with silky ovate- 

 lanceolate leaves, that blacken a good deal in drying ; also a speci- 

 men which is fairly intermediate and in good fruit, gathered in 

 1888 by the Eev. E. S. Marshall. Another Glen Doll plant may 

 be mentioned here, which is probably a blend of this hybrid with 

 S. phylicifolia ; the latter being rather the most prominent species, 

 but S. nigricans coming out in the blackening of the leaves in 

 drying, and in the dense pubescence of the young twigs, while the 

 narrow oblong leaves at the base of the shoots shining beneath, 

 and their reticulation, as well as something in the appearance of 

 the catkins, give evidence of S. Myrsinites. We may say here that 

 a plant which the Eev. R. P. Murray has growing at Shapwick, 

 haying received it from Kew, under label S. nigricans var. damascene, 

 while it appears to differ little from S. nigricans in the fruiting 

 catkin, shows unmistakeable signs of S. Myrsinites being present in 

 the reticulation, &c, of its leaves. 



fif. Myrsinites x reticulata, nov. hyb. — A plant found in Glen 

 Fiagh, growing near S. herbacea x Lapponum, in 1889, was put 

 away with other specimens of that hybrid as a variant form, the 

 material being insufficient to found any other opinion on. In 

 1891 the cutting of this plant, grown at Bournemouth, developed 

 signs of S. reticulata in the leaves, and still believing from the 

 creeping habit that S. herbacea was present, we supposed the plant 

 to be a combination of these two species. The fruit characters, 

 however, in due time quite upset this view; not to mention the 

 divergence from the plants mentioned below in the leaf. By 

 replacing S. herbacea with 5. Myrsi?iites all difficulty is cleared up ; 

 and we append a description by the one of us (E. F. L.) who has 

 solved the question, and is responsible for the naming. In view of 

 the DeCandollean Eegulation (Art. 37), which recommends that a 

 hybrid be not published as such without the hybridity being fairly 

 demonstrated, a name is given to this plant. 



S. eugenes Linton, n. sp. vel hyb. — Stem prostrate, usually 

 ascending m its terminal shoots, clothed with deciduous pubescence; 

 leaves oblong or ovate-oblong, the upper ones cordate at the base 

 and acute, serrate or crenate-serrate, sometimes obscurely so, 

 glabrous above and with veins deeply impressed, the lower surface 

 with long silky hairs mostly soon deciduous, and with the chief 

 veins much raised and smaller reticulate, green beneath (not 

 shining), but with a glaucous tinge appearing in the later leaves ; 

 catkin* about \ m. long, on downy peduncles \ in. or more in 

 length ; catkin-scales very large, enclosing two-thirds of the very 

 silky ovary and even overlapping part of the styles in some cases, 

 the lower scales concolorous (pale brown), the upper shaded to 

 darker brown above, with some but not much long silky hair, 

 obovate and roundly blunt, clasping the ovary, which is subsessile 



vJUl i ; y f S J ery l0ng ' red ; stigmas lar S e > divide <* 5 sectary 

 rattier long, slender, exceeding even the lowest pedicels. The 



nectaries are double, where they can be discerned, in the original 



