SALIX 
3i 
Plants purporting to have this parentage are recorded for Aberdeenshire. 
Also recorded for northern Sweden. 
[ 5 *. lanata x repens Linton in Journ. Bot. xxxvi, 124 (1898) ; A. et G. Camus Classif. Saul, ii 205 (1905). 
Exsiccata : — E. F. et W. R. Linton, 99, 100. 
An artificially produced hybrid, not known to occur in nature.] 
[■S', lanata x reticulata Giirke Plant. Eur. ii, 38 (1897); A. et G. Camus Classif. Saul, ii, 261 (1905); 
x S', superata White in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxvii, 423 (1890)!. 
Exsiccata : — E. F. et W. R. Linton, 101. 
“A willow which grows in company with S. lanata and other mountain-species on the rocks at the head of Allt Innis 
Choarach, Glen Lochay, Perthshire, has required,” according to White (loc. cit.), “a considerable amount of study to 
decipher.” Eventually, White regarded it as having the above parentage. 
On one of White’s sheets (no. 469), E. J. Enander has written : — “ S. herbacea L. x lanata L. forma sublanata mihi.” 
Perthshire, Forfarshire. 
Also recorded for Sweden.] 
Series vii. Myrsinites 
Myrsinites Borrer in Hooker Brit. FI. 431 (1830); Babington in Journ. Bot. i, 172 (1863); Myrtosalix 
A. Kerner in Verhandl. Z.-B. Gesellsch. Wien x, (47) et (81) (i860); A. et G. Camus Classif. Saul. 111 (1904); 
v. Seemen in Ascherson und Graebner Syn. iv, 161 (1909). 
For characters, see page 28. 
Species and chief hybrids of Myrsinites 
9. S. myrsinites (see below). Laminae elliptical, about 2 cm. long and 1 '3 broad, glabrous 
at maturity, subentire or serrate. Catkins on leafy peduncles. 
5 *. myrsinites X nigricans (p. 33). Laminae oblong-elliptical, acute, much larger (up to 7 cm. 
long and 3 broad) than in S', myrsinites. Catkins on short leafy peduncles. 
9. SALIX MYRSINITES. Plates 33; 34 
Salix myrsinites L. Sp. PI. 1018 (1753)!; Lightfoot FI. Scot. 599 (1777); Smith FI. Brit. 1054 (1804)!; 
Eng. FI. iv, 195 (1828); Syme Eng. Bot. viii, 256 (1868) including var. arbutifolia ; A. et G. Camus Classif. 
Saul, in (1904); v. Seemen in Ascherson und Graebner Syn. iv, 162 (1909); Rouy FI. France xii, 214 (1910); 
S', retusa Dickson Trans. Linn. Soc. ii, 288 (1794) non L. ; S. laevis Hooker Brit. FI. 432 (1830). 
leones: — Smith Eng. Bot. t. 1360; Forbes Sal. Woburn, t. 60, t. 61, as S. procumbens ; Borrer in Eng. 
Bot. Suppl. t. 2753, as S. procumbens ; Reichenbach Icon. t. 559, fig. 1188, as S. myrsinites var. genuina ; fig. 
1189, as var. leiocarpa\ fig. 1190, as var. pilosa\ FI. Dan. t. 1054; A. et G. Camus op. cit., Atlas t. 9, fig. A — D. 
Camb. Brit. FI. ii. Plate jj. (a) Shoot with pistillate catkins. ( b ) Barren shoot. ( c ) Ovaries (enlarged). 
Hort. (Rev. E. F. Linton). 
Exsiccata: — Fellman, 217; Fries, v, 66; A. et J. Kerner, 14, 15; E. F. et W. R. Linton, 23 (“the broad- 
leaved form which has been known as var .procumbens")-, 4 7; Reichenbach, 1422. 
Dwarf shrub, up to about half a metre high, erect or decumbent. Young branches glabrous 
in summer, shining. Stipules often caducous, ovate or narrowly 
ovate. Petioles about a sixth or a fifth as long as the laminae, 
more or less glandular at least when young. Laminae elliptical, 
variable in width, more or less rounded at the base, usually more 
or less glandular-serrate, usually obtuse at the apex, about 2 cm. 
long and 1*3 broad, glabrous and shining in summer, veins usually 
prominent especially in dried specimens, turning blackish on drying. 
Catkins rather lax, appearing with the leaves or a little later ; May. 
Bracts oblong, obtuse, hairy, small, purplish towards the apex. 
Nectary small, purplish. Staminate catkins about 1*5 — 2^5 cm. long, 
on short peduncles, leafy at the base. Anthers purplish before 
dehiscence. Pistillate catkins about 2 - o — 2 '5 cm. long, lengthening 
in fruit, on more or less leafy peduncles. Ovaries rather elongate, 
subsessile or on short stalks. Style rather slender, variable in 
length, usually about a fifth or fourth as long as the ovary. Stigmas Map 6 . Distri bution of Salix myrsinites 
usually shorter than the style, purplish, more or less bifid. Capsules in Scotland 
purplish, shortly stalked, slightly hairy as a rule; June or July. 
