REPORT FOR 1898. 587 
Eiiphoi'bia Esula, L. Railway bank, near Loch Spynie, Elgin, 19th 
August 1898. — E, S. Marshall. 
E. Cyparissias, L. Grassy field near the sea, in front of the 
Vicarage, Lytham, W. Lancashire, August 1897. — J. Cosmo 
Melvill. “Sent to show successive growth. Last year I forwarded 
flowers gathered in May.” — J. C. M. 
Betula pubescens, Ehrh. On the road from Steel Cross to Lime- 
kiln Wood, near Crowborough, North-Eastern Sussex, i8th July 1898. 
Not recorded for vice-county 14 in ‘Top. Bot.,’ ed. 2, p. 372. — 
Charles Bailey. 
Salix cinerea x repe 7 is. Made by design. Shirley, S. Derbyshire, 
May and June 1898.^ — W. R. Linton. 
5 . aurita x Caprea. Made by design. Shirley, S. Derbyshire, 
May and June 1898. — W. R. Linton. 
N. aurita x nigricans. Garden, Milford (originally from Glen Shee, 
E. Perth), May and June 1898. — E. S. Marshall (No. 680). “There 
is some look of S. aurita in this, and also in the leaves, of S. Caprea; 
but is there anything in the critical details of the specimen which S. 
nigricans would not be capable of producing ? The stipules and leaf 
serration (which suggest S. aurita)., the leaf-clothing (which suggests 
6". Cap 7 -ea), these can be found in S. nigricans pure and simple. The 
one point of variance from A. 7 iigricans is that the specimens have not 
blackened, and the one-year wood is glabrous and shining. This, I 
think, is evidence of S. phylicifolia ; and to call the plant a form of 
A. nigricans-phylicifolia seems the best solution. The glabrous ovaries, 
large nectaries, styles, and stigmas are important evidence against an 
alliance with the CaprecBP — E. F. Linton. 
S. aurita x Myrsinites {S. saxetana, F. B. White). Origin, Glen 
Fiagh, Forfar j hort, Bournemouth, Nos. 36 and 39, May-August 
1895. — Linton. “The two stocks represented by these 
numbers came in different years from the same part of Glen Fiagh, 
and so great is their resemblance that it is probable they came from 
the same root, small though the plant was, and unlikely to be redis- 
covered. The spot was, roughly speaking, about half way between the 
Oxytropis campestris station and the head of the glen, on a wet, steep 
slope.” — E. F. L. 
S. Caprea, L., form with a pronounced style. Railway bank near 
Bailey Gate, Dorset, 2nd May and 4th July 1892. — E. F. Linton. 
A. Caprea x cmerea. Edlaston Coppy, near Shirley, S. Derby- 
shire, 3rd May and 28th June 1898.— W. R. Linton. 
A. Caprea (?) x nigricans. Clova, Forfar, 27th July 1890. — 
E. F. Linton. “A small old tree which, by its considerable trunk, 
soft, woolly pubescence on the broad rounded leaves, ovaries 
