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The British plants belong to var. genuina Reichenbach Icon, xi, 16 (1849); Neilreich FI. Wien 121 (1851); = var. 
serrata Neilreich FI. N.-Oest. 266 (1846): the var. jacquiniann Koch Syn. ed. 2, 758 (1844) (= S. alpina Scopoli FI. Cam. 
ed. 2, ii, 255 t. 61, no. 1208 (1772)) is a form of central Europe and Asia, and is not known as a British plant. 
Sub- Alpine rocks and stream-sides in Scotland, from about 300 to 800 metres ; Argyllshire, 
Perthshire, Forfarshire, and northwards to Sutherlandshire and Orkney ; preferring limestone. 
Northern and Arctic Scandinavia (to 7 i° N.) and Russia, mountains of central Europe (to 
2650 m.) and southwards to the Pyrenees, the Apennines and the Carpathians ; northern and 
Arctic Asia, eastwards to Kamtchatka ; North America — Labrador and Greenland. 
S. arbuscula x myrsinites (see page 40). 
•S. aurita x myrsinites E. F. et W. R. Linton in Jonrn. Bot. xxx, 361 (1892); A. et G. Camus 
Classif. Saul, ii, 1 5 1 (1905); x S. saxetana White in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxvii, 434 (1890)!. 
leones: — Camb. Brit. FI. ii. Plate J4,a. (a) Shoot with pistillate catkins, (b) Leaves. ( c ) Pistillate 
flowers (enlarged). Hort. (Rev. E. F. Linton). 
Exsiccata : — E. F. et W. R. Linton, 18 ; herb. Marshall, 66. 
Undershrub. Young branches glabrous at maturity. Stipules small. Petioles about 1 cm. 
long. Laminae broadly elliptical to slightly obovate or oblong-elliptical, margin undulate, coarsely 
serrate, with a short apical acumination, a little rugose, glabrous at maturity, grey and reticulate 
underneath. Catkins on leafy peduncles variable in length ; late May. Bracts acute, hairy. 
Nectary small, much shorter than the bract or gynophore. Style rather long. Stigmas bifid. 
Capsules covered with short dense hairs, stalked. 
Rare and critical ; Perthshire, Forfarshire. Not recorded for any other country. 
S. aurita x myrsinites x nigricans E. F. et W. R. Linton in Joum. Bot. xxx, 360 (1892); A. et 
G. Camus Classif. Saul, ii, 272 (1905). 
Exsiccata: — E. F. et W. R. Linton, 57, as S. aurita x myrsinites x nigricans ?. 
Messrs Linton ( loc . cit.) confidently ascribe the above parentage (“ which,” they add, “ will seem incredible ”) to a willow 
from Forfarshire. On the label of their no. 57, the Rev. E. F. Linton states that “the *?’ is added to indicate the want of 
absolute certainty which must attend such a solution, rather than any doubt in my mind.” Not known elsewhere. 
•S. caprea x myrsinites Linton in Journ. Bot. xxxii, 201 (1894); A. et G. Camus 1 Classif. Saul ii, 
214 (1905). 
Exsiccata: — E. F. et W. R. Linton, 46; 115 (artificial hybrid). 
Undershrub, up to 1 m. high when cultivated. Laminae obovate-elliptical, crenulate, mucronate, 
softly pubescent on both sides especially when young. Catkins up to 5 cm. long, on short leafy 
peduncles. Bracts obtuse at the summit, discolorous. Nectary short, yellowish. Ovaries pubescent 
stalked. Style rather short. Stigmas large, more or less bifid. 
Glen Fiagh, Clova, Forfarshire. Not recorded for any other country. 
[►S. cineveci x myrsinites Linton in Journ. Bot. xxxvi, 124 (1898); A. et G. Camus Classif. Saul, ii, 
1139 (905) ; v. Seemen in Ascherson und Graebner Syn. iv, 254 (1909). 
Exsiccata: — E. F. et W. R. Linton, 92, as S. cinerea x myrsinites. 
This hybrid was made artificially by Messrs Linton. It has since been recorded for the Tyrol, at 1600 m. (vide v. 
Seemen, op. cit., p. 255).] 
[>S. herbacea x myrsinites E. F. et W. R. Linton in Joum. Bot. xxx, 365 (1892)?; A. et G. Camus, 
Classif. Saul, ii, 256 (1905)?; v. Seemen in Ascherson und Graebner Syn. iv, 325 (1909)?; x S. sommerfelti 
Andersson in DC. Prodr. xvi, pt. ii, 291 (1868)?. 
leones: — A. et G. Camus op. cit.. Atlas ii, t. 15 (48) fig. AB — AC, as x S', sommerfelti ? . 
Exsiccata :— Herb. Marshall, 694 ? . 
Enander ( Sched . i, 16 (1911)) refers x S. sommerfelti to S. herbacea x lapponum and (p. 27) to S. herbacea x lanata. 
Aberdeenshire?. 
Northern Scandinavia, the Tyrol.] 
S. lapponum x myrsinites (see page 37). 
1 MM. Camus also give an alternative name, x S. lintoni , named after the Rev. E. F. Linton. 
