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Salix (cinerea) glabrescens, Andersson. 
Provinces 1 - 3, etc. N. Devon. Surrey. Midx. Westmoreland ? 
Syn. 1010. This is a state of cinerea with the leaves almost 
glabrous, and somewhat lucid or shining on the upper surface, 
which J have collected in the counties named above; that from 
Westmoreland shading off towards aquatica. A Surrey example 
was named as above by Dr. Andersson, and I understood him to 
regard it as specially the acuminata of Hoffman,—of course, not 
that of Smith. 
Salix (cinerea) aquatica Sm. 
Provinces all? Authorities wanting for 16 and 17. 
Syn. 1010. By the use of the name, this is distributed from 
Cornwall to Hebrides (Balf. & Bab.), to Orkney (Neill’s Tour), and 
to Shetland (Edm. Flora). But a change in the application of the 
name appears to have gradually come about among English 
botanists and in our botanical books. Formerly, the name aquatica 
seems to have had the wider or more general use; that of cinerea 
being applied more specially. Of late years, this has been con- 
versed ; cinerea coming into use as the general name, and aquatica 
becoming the more limited or specially applied one. The form 
which we now call cinerea, as distinguished from aquatica, is that 
which botanists labelled by the latter name earlier in the present 
century. Of course, there is thus inextricable confusion in tlie 
recorded habitats. Moreover, as Dr. Boswell Syme correctly 
states, ‘“‘The varieties run so into each other, that it is often 
impossible to say to which of the three a form ought to be 
referred”; Eng. bot. viii. 232. 
Salix (cinerea) oleifolia, Sm. 
Provinces 12345678-1011---15. 
Syn. 1010. By name the oleifolia is recorded from Devon (Chud- 
leigh Flora) to Perth and Forfar (Gard. Flora). David Don gave 
me the name oleifolia for a hedge-row willow in Surrey, to which 
Dr. Andersson wrote the name “ cinerea var. rufinervis.” 
Salix (caprea) sphacelata, Sm. 
Provinces - 23-5 ----1011--- 16. 
Syn. 1012. Sussex; Borrer. Oxford; Besley cat. Salop; 
Leighton flo. Notts; Jowett in Howitt flo. York; Ward, Leefe 
Sal. no. 66. Tyne; New flo. Perth; “Lightf. Herb.” If we 
take the more pointed leaves and their sub-entire margins, as the 
character for sphacelata, and not specially their discoloration at the 
point, this is a frequent willow, perhaps more especially in Scotland, 
where its habitats include the Lowlands and all three Highland 
provinces, and it grows to a tree. “Specimens of S. sphacelata 
show it to be only a small state of S. caprea”; Eng. bot. vii. 234. 
