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species to choose among for a name to this segregate. A form or 
variety of laurina, according to Babington’s Manual. A variety of 
nigricans, according to Hooker and Arnott’s British Flora. A 
variety of phylicifolia, according to Boswell Syme’s edition of 
English Botany. It is placed under the last of these three, rather 
as synonym than variety, by Andersson in DC. prodromus xvi. 242. 
The same position is there assigned to tenuior and tenuifolia; the 
latter interrogatively, through E. B. 2186. 
Salix tenuior, Borrer. 
Province - 10 ----15. York. Perth. 
Ambiguity. <A variety of laurina, according to Hooker & Arnott, 
and to Babington. A variety of phylicifolia, according to Anders- 
son, and to Boswell Syme. 
Saliz tenuifolia, Sm. in F. B. & E. F. 
Provinces - - [8] ------ 10 11 12 - 14 15. Two willows confused. 
Ambiguity. A variety of laurina, according to Hooker & Arnott, 
and to Babington. A variety of phylicifolia, according to Dr. 
Boswell Syme. “It is now sufficiently understood that 8S. tenui- 
folia of Eng. bot. 2186 is not the plant bearing that name in Flora 
Britannica, but S. bicolor of Hooker’s British Flora”; W. B. in 
Eng. bot. supp. 2795. 
Salia plicata, Fries, fide Andersson. 
Province - 15. Perth or Hasterness. 
Ambiguity. This name was given by Dr. Andersson to dried 
specimens in my herbarium, taken from a small shrub in the 
garden, which had been brought either from Drumochter Forest 
or from Athole Forest in 1841. 
Salix angustifolia, Wulf. 
Provinces - 18-15. Dumfries? Forfar? Aberdeen ? 
Ambiguity. §. Arbuscula, Sm. E.'B. 1366, not of continental 
authors; Brit. flo. Of course there is something to answer to this 
specific name, although that something is quite unknown to myself. 
A recent record for it is ‘“‘ Shores of Loch Muick, Mr. Croall”; in 
Dickie’s Botanist’s Guide, page 151. 
Salix rosmarinifolia, Linn. 
Provinces -2-45----1011. “ Highlands of Scotland.” 
Ambiguity. Sus. Suff. Monm. York. Tyne. Islay; Balf. cat. 
Salix livida, Wahl. 
Province - 18. At the foot of Hertfell; Maughan. 
Error. This is now understood to mean Smith’s vacciniifolia. 
Salia hastata, L. S. malifolia, E. B, ed. 1, no. 1617. 
Provinces -- 384-15. Middlesex. Norfolk. Forfar. 
Ambiguity. Error? Cyb. ii. 397. iii. 509. “Mr. Crowe was 
always persuaded that he found this willow wild in some parts of 
Norfolk, from whence he took cuttings for his garden. It has 
