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(September 21, 1913) sent last year from the same bush. The bush 

 flowered profusely this year. — G. C. Brown. " No mature leaves ; 

 but it looks like var. Hoffmminiana Bab." — E. S. Marshall. 



8alix purpurea L., ^. [Ref. No. 227.] Earls Colne, N. Essex, 

 v.-c. 19; flowers, April 30; leaves, August 23, 1914. — G. C, Brown. 

 " Correct." — E. F. Linton. " Seems to come under the type (vera 

 Ritschl)." — H S. Marshall. 



Salix Forhyana Sm. Lowland near Brent Knoll, N. Somerset, 

 April and August 1902. — J. W. White. "Rightly named.' — E. F. 

 Linton. " A broad-leaved S. purjjurea x vi7ni7ialis, which I think 

 answers to this name." — E. S. Marshall. 



Salix aurita 8but ci7ierea x viminalisl = S. ferruginea G. Anderson 

 Meadows near Long Ashton, N. Somerset, v.-c. 6, April, May, and 

 August 1913. — J. W. White. "The male specimen is S. cinerea x 

 viminalis ; the female probably S. aurita x viminalis. The foliage 

 looks rather as if it belonged to the latter, but is wanting in decisive 

 features, and there is nothing to show whether it is from the male or 

 the female bush, or from either. I have remarked before on the 

 objectionable practice of sending male and female specimens on the 

 same sheet, unless, of course, there is no doubt that both belong to the 

 same species. In this case the result of the mixture gives a very un- 

 satisfactory result. — E. F. Linton. "This I consider to be aS'. cinerea 

 X viminalis."—-^. S. Marshall. 



Salix phylicifolia (L.) Sm. [Ref. No. 1822.] (Name confirmed 

 by E. F. Linton). Grassy banks at burnside, altitude 50 feet. Burn of 

 Stennadale, Firth, Mainland, Orkney ; flowers, June 3 ; leaves, August 

 5, 1914. Native, common. A straggling shrub with sub-erect or 

 erect stems, 1 — 2 feet high. — H. H. Johnston. 



C eratophyllum submersum L. Pond, Castle Morton, Worcester, 

 v.-c. 37, August 27, 1914. I understand that Dr C. E. Moss prefers 

 to call the C. submersum var. apiculatum of Dalla Torre and 

 Sarntheim. Coll. R. F. Towndrow ; comm. S. H. Bickham. "This 

 plant is, in my opinion, C. demersum, var. apiculatum ^ C. apicula- 

 tum Cham. I have never gathered C. submersum in any inland 

 county, and have only seen British specimens from southern England 

 — Somerset to Norfolk. The var. apiculatum is intermediate 

 between C. demersum and C. submersum, and it is somewhat arbitrary 

 to refer it to one of the species rather than the other, but I prefer 

 to put it to C. demersum, simply because this plan enables one to 

 determine the two species in absence of ripe fruit. I agree that in 

 fruit characters the variety is not far from C. submersum, and I 

 should not complain if the two species were reduced to one." — 

 C. E. Moss. 



