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green. The habit is also suggestive, the bush remaining dwarf 
(about 2 ft.') after four years, with horizontal and drooping branches, 
while the adjoining bush of 6". nigricans x phylicifolia of the same 
date of planting (1891) is erect and 5-6 ft. higL As the catkins show 
no signs whatever of anything but S. nigricans, I merely issue it as a 
remarkable form. — Edward F. Linton. 
A. Myrsinites x nigricans, Wimmer. From a small bush in Glen 
Fiagh, Forfar. Hort. Bournemouth, No. 95, 19th April and 19th 
June, 1893. In this plant (which is given as No. 74 in our set of 
British Willows) the catkins shew hardly any signs of S. Myrsinites, 
which, however, is very apparent in the texture, veining, and cut of the 
leaves, and in their gloss in the living plant, which does not appear in 
these specimens. — Edward F. Linton. 
S. Myrsinites x nigricans, Wimmer. Glen Fiagh, Forfar, 24th 
July, 1894. As A. punctata, Wahl, is a somewhat doubtful name, 
owing to some mixture in Wahlenberg’s specimens, it seems best to 
call this, as Wimmer did, A. Myrsinites x nigricans, a name which 
precedes by some years Andersson’s A. Wahlenbergii. This example has 
the habit of A. Myrsinites, and this parent is visible in the texture, 
veining, gloss and shape of the leaves, and in the short pedicel of the 
ovaries and their style. The dense clothing of the ovaries, the scales, 
and a certain colouring, and blackening and hairiness of the leaves, 
give good evidence of A", nigricans. — E. F. Linton. 
A. aurita x Lapponuni, Wimmer. The male bush from Coire 
Ardran, Mid Perth, where there was a strong growth of it in 1891 ; the 
female from wet rocks on the Glen Lyon side of Ben Lawers; both 
cultivated at Bournemouth, April, June (and July), 1895. — Edward 
F. Linton. 
A. Myrsinites, L., forma. From Glen Fiagh, Forfar ; Hort. 
Bournemouth No. 47, May and July, 1891-93. A peculiar form (sent 
out as No. 73 set of British Willows) which I have only met with in 
Glen Pdagh. The male plant (of which specimens are now .sent) my 
brother and I have had in cultivation for five or six years, and it 
maintains the habit of Myrsinites. It corresponds with the descrip- 
tion of var. arbutifolia, Syme, of which I have seen no authentic 
specimen. We have suspected the presence of A. 7 iigricans on 
account of the large size and greater flaccidity of the leaves, and 
the unusual development of stipules, which are seldom so large 
in A. Myrsinites ; but the leaves do not blacken in carefully dried 
specimems, and there is so little definite proof of the suggested 
hybridity that we issue this plant as labelled.— -Edward Pd Linton. 
A. sesquitertia, Pd B. White (A. aurita x phylicifolia x purpurea). 
Cuttings from the origdnal bush from which the hybrid was named, 
near ITornhill, Dumfrieshire, were kindly supplied me by its discoverer, 
Mr. Jas. Fingland; hort., Bournemouth, 30th April and 28th June, 
