﻿212 WHAT IS THE TRUE BANK OF SALIX SADLEEI ? 



Lactarius subumbonatus Lind. Dinmore (8). 

 Russula virescens Fr. Whitecliffe (10). — R. lutea Fr. Down- 

 ton (10).— R. xerampeKna Fr. Whitecliffe (10). 

 Boletus candicam Fr. Whitecliffe (10). 



( 'orticium sambuci Fr. Dinmore (8). — C. epiphyllum Pers. 

 Downton (10). 



Puccinia alechomatis DC. Downton (10). — P. scorodonia Link. 

 Downton (10). 



Morchella Smithiana Cooke. Bridstow (2). — M. snniUhera Fr. 

 Bridstow (2). 



Lachnella nivea Hedw. Downton (10). 



Diaporthe inguilina Wallr. On Umbellifem, Downton (10). 



Paxillus alexandri Fr. Whitecliffe (10). 



Grandinia ocellata Fr. Downton (10). 



PhyUachora angelica Fr. Stoke Edith (3). 



Empusa musea Cohn. On flies, Stoke Edith (3). 



WHAT IS THE TRUE RANK OF SALIX SADLERI SYME ? 

 By the Rev. E. S. Marshall, M.A., F.L.S. 



Some years ago, in his masterly Revision of the British Wilbms, 

 Dr. Buchanan White gave it as his opinion that this was "a 

 remarkable form of S. lanata" I feel sure that anyone who has 

 studied the living plant at all carefully will consider him fully 

 justified in rejecting the theory of a lanata x reticulata origin. My 

 own observation of its habit and characters when cultivated under 

 varying conditions has, however, led me to a different conclusion, 

 and I now quite believe it to be a hybrid, viz., herbacea x lanata. 

 The train of thought which has ended thus was started by my 

 finding (July, 1892) in Glen Callater, at the altitude (2700 ft.) 

 given by Sadler for the willow bearing his name, a small, prostrate 

 and rooting shrub which seemed to be evidently a cross between 

 8. herbacea and S. lanata, although considerably nearer to the first 

 named; in this view Dr. White subsequently acquiesced. No 

 catkins were obtainable, and my cuttings unfortunately died ; but 

 there was a great resemblance in habit and in the size of the 

 leaves, though not much similarity in their shape and texture, to 

 the figure of S. Sadleri— taken from a wild specimen — in Trans. 

 Bot. Sac. Edin. for 1874. 



I have seen S. Sadleri growing beautifully in my friend Mr. W. 

 Boyd's garden at Faldonside, near Melrose, as well as at Kew. 

 In both cases the leaves have very much increased in size, and tend 

 to become suborbicular. The soil of my own garden (purposely 

 unimproved) being light and sandy, a small cutting which has been 

 planted there for about two years and a half has kept considerably 

 nearer to the original condition. On first expanding, the leaves are 

 densely clothed with the woolly tomentum so characteristic of 

 lanata . but this (with me) is very deciduous, so that they eventually 



