588 THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 
pubescent at first, at least in part, becoming glabrous ultimately, and 
comparatively small styles and stigmas, gives sufficient evidence of the 
very probable presence of S. Caprea; and the query given above might 
fairly be omitted. .S', nigricans is so variable that one must be very 
cautious in naming its hybrids ; at the same time, its protean nature 
is probably due to inherited strains of kindred species.” — ^E. F. L. 
Salix Caprea x nigricans. Casual hybrid in garden, Shirley, S. 
Derbyshire, May and June 1898. — W. R. Linton. 
S. p/iylicifoiia, L. Origin, Clova Valley, Forfar; hort. Bourne- 
mouth, No. 78, 25th April and 29th June 1893. — E. F. Linton. 
“ This plant I believed for a while to be a hybrid of S. phylicifolia with 
S. Caprea., L., the leaves having a soft, grey pubescence in their early 
growth, and fitting the hypothesis in shape, and the moderate stigmas 
and peculiar pubescence of the ovaries, which only clothes their 
upper part, giving apparently favourable evidence. The pubescence of 
the foliage is, however, far too sparse for a A. Caprea hybrid, and the 
pubescence of the upper part of the ovary may be accounted for by a 
crossing of two plants of A. phylicifolia, one with glabrous and one 
with pubescent ovaries. The wild specimens of this bush shewed 
much more pubescence on the leaf ; and its reduction in cultivation 
tends to shew that wild foliage specimens of supposed S. Caprea x 
phylicifolia must not be relied on, because their leaves are grey with 
pubescence. Fruit characters must support those of the leaf, and the 
test of cultivation is very desirable. I am not sure that 1 have yet 
seen a British specimen of 6'. Caprea x phylicifolia!'' — E. F. L. 
A. phylicifolia x repens. Garden, Milford, originally from Glen 
Shee, E. Perth, May and June 1898. — E. S. Marshall (No. 704). 
“First gathered by the Lochsie Burn in 1892, growing with the 
supposed parents. On fresh leaf-material being sent to him. Dr. 
Buchanan White said that there was certainly repens in it, the other 
element being either phylicifolia or nigricans. I did not see nigricans 
in the immediate neighbourhood, nor does the living plant suggest it. 
In cultivation the repeiis origin is somewhat obscured, though evident 
enough (to my mind) in most stages of growth. Last spring it flowered 
about the same time as wild repeats, and nearly three weeks before my 
cultivated bushes of nigricans and phylicifolia." — E. S, M. “The 
signs of S. repens in this, of which I have both original and cultivated 
specimens, are not so clear to my eyes as they are to Mr. Marshall’s.” — 
E. F. Linton. 
S. nigricans x phylicifolia. Grig. Glen Lyon, Perth ; hort. 
Bournemouth, 19th April and 20th June 1893. — E. F. Linton. 
“The original foliage specimens seemed for certain to shew S. anrila 
present, but cultivation proved this (No. 145) to be no cross with the 
Caprece. It is No. 43 hSet of British Willows,’ fairly intermediate, or 
rather on the nigricans side.” — E. F. L. 
