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this associates with purpurea better than with rubra; seé those 
species on preceding pages 815 and 316. I have received leaves of 
alba (rose-willow state) under this name, from a good botanist in 
Norfolk ; and from a well-known Yorkshire botanist, a combination 
(as it seems to my eyes) of the catkins of purpurea with the adult 
leaves of triandra. And if a like confusion of two kinds, purpurea 
aud rubra, has occurred on the plate of English Botany, 1848, we 
may partly account for the uncertainty which apparently belongs 
to the recorded localities for Helia even more than for those of 
most other willows. 
Salix Doniana, Sm. ‘8. purpurea var. sericea, R.” 
Province ...? Scotland; G. Don, in E. F. Baldovan woods; Flo. F. 
Ambiguity. Resembling S. purpurea; Brit. flo. ed. 8. 
Salia petiolaris, Smith. 
Provinces - 8-13-15. Notts; Jowett. Lanark. Forfar. 
Ambiguity. Alien? In the low parts of Angus-shire, forming a 
fine tree; Don Acc. Sent from Scotland by the late Mr. Dickson ; 
Eng. Flora, iv. 181. Possil marsh, north side of the canal; 
D. Don, in Hook. Scot. ‘It is not now (even in cultivation) in 
Possil marsh, where it was said to have been found by G. Don”; 
Brit. flo. ed. 8. “A native of North America.” 
Salix acuminata, Sm. 
Provinces 12345-78-1011121314-16-18. Uncertain. 
Ambiguity. The name acuminata (Anglorum) was added to that 
of Smithiana in the Synopsis, no. 1008, under a belief that the 
willow which is held to be rugosa, by the Rev. J. EK. Leefe, has 
been repeatedly labelled by collectors as the acuminata of Smith; 
their localities thus becoming much confused together. Certainly, 
some years ago, I also thus labelled the Smithiana rugosa, more or 
less doubtfully. By name (thus uncertain) the records would dis- 
tribute “acuminata” from Devon to Edinburgh (Hook. Scot.), to 
Islay (Balf. cat.), and even to Orkney (Neill’s Tour). But the non- 
reliability of records under this name goes beyond Smithiana, for 
the Authors of the New Flora of Northumberland and Durham 
remark, “Judging from his herbarium, Winch’s acuminata is a 
form of caprea.” Mr. Borrer wrote, in letter of 1849, “I am not 
sure that I ever saw this except in cultivation”. 
Salia dasyclados, Wimmer ? 
Province -- 8. Audley End, Essex; Leefe Sal. no. 37. 
Ambiguity. Cyb. iii, 509. Bot. Gaz. iii. 59. This is named 
“acuminata Sm.” on Mr. Leefe’s label. Dr. Andersson noted it 
as “certainly dasyclados of Wimmer”, and quite distinct from 
acuminata of Smith, which is lanceolata of Fries. Dr. Boswell 
Syme meets this by an indirect contradiction, thus; ‘The speci- 
men in my set is rightly named S. acuminata, Sm., a plant which 
Dr. Andersson at that time evidently misunderstood”; Eng. bot. 
