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observation for a number of years. Latterly it has shown more and 
more likeness to 61 Caprea , although its habit is unlike, being straggling 
and almost drooping. I have been led to regard it as a hybrid. — 
W. H. Purchas. “61 Caprea , L. ; blighted specimen from a starved 
bush.” — E. F. Linton. 
Salix repens , L., var. rosmarinifolia , L., 61 angustifolia, Wulf. Hort. 
Bournemouth, 5th May and 4th July 1900. It is very doubtful it 
this willow is British. I received the stock through Kew, and do not 
know its origin ; it seems to me a var. or sub-species of S. repens , and 
no hybrid. — Edward F. Linton. 
6”. phylicifolia x repens ? Origin Glen Shee, Perth ; cult. May and 
July 1899-1900. This plant, which in cultivation forms a low bush, 
much branching, has the appearance of an intermediate between the 
two species with which it was originally growing. — W. R. Linton. 
“ This is one of the most difficult hybrids to name with certainty. 
There is a look of 6'. repens here in the slender habit and rather 
distant leaf-serration ; but this species has a way of asserting itself 
rather strongly in combination; and, seeing no unequivocal signs of it 
in these specimens, I cannot remove the query. A somewhat similar 
plant from the same neighbourhood is in my herbarium, which the 
Rev. E. S. Marshall, who gathered it, thinks is 6. phylicifolia x repe?is 
also ; but this is equally wanting in clear^ evidence of 61 repe?isd — 
E. F. Linton. 
S. Lapponum , L , forma. Hort. Bournemouth, 5th May and 4th 
July 1900. Origin, rocks two miles north of Ben Lawers, Mid-Perth. 
This form has been regarded as a hybrid between S. Lapponum and 
S. phylicifolia , but the evidences of the latter have almost disappeared 
in cultivation, and is now issued as a broad-leaved form of 61 
Lapponum, greener than usual, and with obscure serration in some of 
the leaves. — E. F. Linton. 
61 rubra, Huds., a form in which S. vimuialis is the predominating 
partner, grew plentifully in Brackley Gorse, Northamptonshire, for 
which county this may be taken as the first authentic record. As the 
Gorse has probably been planted during recent years one cannot 
speak with certainty as to the plant being indigenous ; Rumex acutus, 
L., grew with it. — G. Claridge Druce. “ One poor sample of 
foliage only is not always enough to determine a critical willow, and 
though very often a mere scrap is sufficient, in this case it is not. 
The specimen is, very probably, not 61 rubra but 61 hippophaefolia, 
Thuill. and with the aid of well-developed leaves and stipules, or male 
flowers fully out, or female catkins more or less matured, a definite 
name could be given.”— E. F. Linton. 
61 cinerea x purpurea , L. (S. sordida, Kerner.). Hort. Bourne- 
mouth, 23rd April and late July 1900- E. F. Linton. 
