﻿limestone dales. — H. brevirostrum Ehrli. Charlesworth Coombs ; 

 Cliee Dale ! — II. squarrosum L. Common. Fairbage Moor, near 

 Glossop; Miller's Dale, and Charlesworth Coombs. — Var. b. cal- 

 vesccns Wils. Near Whaley Bridge and Mellor ! — H. loreum L. 

 Charlesworth Coombs and Kinder Scout. Wood near Whaley 

 Bridge. — H. triguetrum L. Bather frequent in the limestone dales. 



TWO NEW WILLOW-HYBRIDS. 

 By Edward F. Linton, M.A. 



Two willows were collected in 1889 by the Rev. W. R. Linton 

 and myself, which have given some trouble both in their cultivation 

 and diagnosis, but have proved to be interesting and I believe 

 hitherto unnoticed hybrids. One of them (No. 46), from Glen 

 Fiagh, Forfar, was at first supposed by me to be one of the variable 

 forms of .s. Mijminit. - < >ii : /rinni*, i.nd later again to be S. aui ita X 

 Mijrsinites,io plants of which, a . it bore a good deal 



of resemblance. But the softly silky clothing of the leaves reminding 

 one of 8. Lapponum, besides some other discrepancies, could not be 

 accounted for on either of these hypotheses. 1 have now no doubt 

 that it originates from a union between S. Caprea L. and S. Myrsi- 

 nites L., two species which usually do not grow within range for 

 combining; but the Rev. E. S. Marshall, who sees no objection to my 

 solution, remarks that he has observed 8. Caprea a little lower 

 down the valley ; and I have myself noticed 8. Caprea near the 

 mouth of the gorge in Glen Doll, which is of course hard by. The 

 hybrid plant was found at some elevation, at the usual level of 

 8. Alyrsinites; which is therefore probably the female parent. I 

 have another plant from Glen Fiagh, found in 1890, which may be 

 the same hybrid, but being male, it is difficult to make sure of; it 

 also was supposed to be S. Myrsinites x nigricans, the former species 

 being certainly one of the parents. I give a description of the 

 female plant : — 



S. Caprea x Myrsinites, nov. hybr. Bush very small when 

 found, but rising 2-3 ft. (and no doubt higher) in the garden. 

 Leaves 1-2 in. long, obovate-elliptic, rather obscurely crenate, 

 mucronate, very softly pubescent on both sides, densely so while 

 young, somewhat darkened when dried ; veins beneath rather dark, 

 tinged with dull purple, finely and distinctly 

 strong eviden 

 hairy clothing. 



ovaries densely covered with silky pubescence, grey-green 



ovaries) ; style rather short ; stigma 

 The true solution of this curio 

 S. Caprea does not (like aurita) comi 



