curator's report for I860. 
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Chenopodiwn, is given under tlie name of' C. botryoides, but the 
specimens formerly distributed and supplemented by those now sent 
suffice to show that the so-called C. botryoides of the Surrey Flora 
is really a state or variety of C. rubrum and not the true. C. 
botryoides of the South-eastern coast, C. iirbicum and its variety 
intermedium are both included by name in the Flora of Surrey. 
The specimens now sent will show what forms were included under 
those two names. As no greater differences appear between these 
two forms than are found between varieties of C. album or of C. 
rubrum, it seems proper to look upon them also as one single species. 
Perhaps all of them would be assigned to C. intermedium only by 
Continental botanists and if so it may be held very doubtful whether 
the typical C. urbicum has ever really occurred in England. 
Branches from two or three large plants of C. glaucum, found in 
Guernsey, are introduced into some of the packets because this is a 
very scarce species and some mistakes and misnomers of it occur in 
works on British botany. The two dozen packets are numbered 
consecutively, but only one half of them contain a full series of the 
species and varieties.” 
Salix viridis. Hr. Watson sends a set of specimens in leaf 
thus labelled, with which he writes “ Salix viridis is sent for dis- 
tribution in order to draw attention to the species of Fries, which 
has been stated to occur in different counties of England, on faith 
of specimens seen and named by Dr. Andersson, author of the Malices 
Lapponicse. Of course, it cannot be quite certain that Dr. Andersson 
would have likewise so named the samples now sent, but they do 
closely resemble some of the specimens from Surrey, which lie 
named S. viridis S. viridis is stated by Fries to be characterised 
by diandrous male flowers, “ arrect” catkins with leafy stalks, con- 
colorous deciduous scales, lanceolate acuminate leaves which are 
perfectly glabrous on both sides even when quite young and tough 
erect branches. Fries seems to consider it as nearest to S . fray ill's 
but tending towards triandra in the habit of the catkins and alba 
by the toughness of the branches. But a specimen from Mr. 
Watson gathered by Nyman, near Stockholm, has the young leaves 
decidedly silky, so that it would appear doubtful whether one of the 
characteristics mainly relied upon is absolute. In this example, 
the flowers of which are taken from the staminate plant when very 
young the leaves in shape and texture resemble those of fragilis , 
the peduncles being densely silky, and the scales not more than one- 
sixteenth of an inch long, silky, narrowly obovate and bluntish. In 
S. fragilis the scales vary exceedingly in length and shape and are 
sometimes nearly naked, in S. alba it is the same and they are 
sometimes quite naked, in S. triandra they are always quite naked, 
more tenacious in texture, broader, and in shape bluntly spathulate. 
S. nndulata. Mr. Watson sends also a set of specimens in 
