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(6) S. amygdalina, L. Peatrig bog, Roxburgh. This form 

 (coneolor) has narrower leaves than nsual. There are typical 

 specimens from Carham, where they were planted. 



(7) S. acutifolia, Will. Eclen bank, planted, not native. A 

 branch, leaves only, which I think is this, in Herb. Bk. Museum, 

 named S. purpurea, from u Coldingham, B., 1844." 



(8) S. daphnoides, Vill. Kelso, planted. 



(9) S. Woolgariana, Borr. Roadside, Carham, planted. 



(10) S. Lambertiana, Sm. Plentiful on Tweedside, both male 

 and female plants. I suspect that this will be frequently called 

 S. Helix. The Monandrce is a very variable group, many of the 

 forms passing gradually into each other. Amongst the numer- 

 ous forms to be found in this district, I have not been able to 

 detect anything that agrees with the S. Helix of Smith ; although 

 S. ramulosa, Borr. =Helix, Anderson, is common. Dr Boswell has 

 sunk 8. ramulosa, Borr. under S. purpurea in the 3d ed. of "Eng. 

 Bot." 



(11) S. rubra, Huds. The typical plant, with long linear 

 leaves, is not uncommon in the district. A form with shorter, 

 somewhat lanceolate, slightly downy (when young) leaves is also 

 frequently to be met with. I have seen it on the banks of 

 Wooler water, on a burn side near Coldingham, at the mouth of 

 the Whiteadder (female) and where the Grange burn crosses the 

 road (male) near Berwick. That at the last named station is S. 

 decipiens, "El. Berw." i., 212, and S. purpurea " East. Bord." p. 

 179. There is also a specimen of the same in Kelso Museum 

 from Dr Johnston named S. decipiens. 



(12) S. Forbyana, Sm. Frequent. 



(13) S. stipularis, Sm. Type from Tweedside at mouth of Car- 

 ham burn. A form with the stigmas divided as in S. Smithiana, 

 but with the stipules and general characters of S. stipularis grows 

 in Peatrig bog, and on the sides of Bowmont water. 



There is a very peculiar form in Peatrig bog, which Mr Leefe 

 thinks is best referred to S. stipularis ; the leaves of which re- 

 semble S. ferruginea both in form and texture, but it differs in the 

 stipules ; and the catkins are like those of S. stipularis, but the 

 germ en is "manifestly stalked." S. stipularis grows also at 

 Coldingham Loch, Berwick, and on the roadside between Wooler 

 and the Common Burn. But as I have not seen catkins from the 

 two last stations, I am uncertain whether they are the plant of 

 Smith or the form with cloven stigmas, 



