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Camb. Brit. FI. ii. Plate 52. ( a ) Shoot with young pistillate catkins, (b) Shoot with older pistillate catkins. 
(c) Barren shoot, (d) Pistillate flowers (enlarged). Huntingdonshire (E. W. H.). 
Laminae narrower than in subvar. aquatica , elliptical or more or less oboval, up to about 
6 cm. long and 2 broad. 
(f 3 ) subvar. aquatica nobis; S', aquatica Smith FI. Brit. 1065 (1804)!; A. cinerea var. aquatica Reichenbach 
FI. Germ. Excurs. 169 (1830); Syme Eng. Bot. viii, 231 (1868); A. cinerea var. obovatis Koch Syn. 650 (1837); 
S. cinerea var. rotundifolia Doll FI. Baden. 496 (1859). 
leones : — Hoffmann Hist. Sal. t. 5, fig. 3, as A. aurita ; Smith Eng. Bot. t. 1437, as A. aquatica ; Forbes 
Sal Woburn, t. 127, as S. aquatica. 
Camb. Brit. FI. ii. Plate yj. (a) Shoot with staminate catkins, (b) Barren shoot, (c) Staminate flowers. 
(d) Staminate flowers (enlarged). Huntingdonshire. (E. W. H.). 
Laminae about as long as in subvar. oleifolia , but broader (ca. 2-5 — 3-0 cm.). 
Forms of S. aurita x cinerea and of S. caprea x cinerea are frequently mistaken for this subvariety. 
Damp woods and hedgerows, stream-banks, marshes, and fens ; throughout the British Isles, 
where it is the commonest and most widely distributed species of Salix ; northwards to Zetland ; 
ascending to 610 m. in Perthshire. 
Europe (except Arctic, ascending to 2100 m. in the Alps), northern Africa, Caucasus and 
western Asia to Kamtchatka (to 67°4o'N.). 
S. aurita x cinerea (see page 56); 5 . caprea x cinerea (see page 53); S. cinerea x lapponum (see 
page 35); S. cinerea x myrsinites (see page 32); A. cinerea x nigricans (see page 43); S. cinerea x 
phylicifolia (see page 46); S. cinerea * purpurea (see page 67). 
£. cinerea X repens Wimmer in Flora xxxi, 329 (1848) ! ; White in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxvii, 393 (1890) ! ; 
A. et G. Camus Classif Saul. 332 (1904); v. Seemen in Ascherson und Graebner Syn. iv, 226 (1909); Rouy FI. 
France xii, 239 (1910); x A. subsericea Doll FI. Baden 517 (1859). 
leones — A. et G. Camus op. cit., Atlas t. 30, fig. AB, AC, AD, AE, as x A. subsericea. 
Camb. Brit. FI. ii. Plate 54. (a) Shoot with pistillate catkins, (b) Leaves, (c) Pistillate flower, (d) Pistillate 
flowers (enlarged). From plant raised from a cutting sent by the Rev. E. F. Linton. Leaves larger than in 
the wild form. 
Exsiccata : — E. F. et W. R. Linton, 63, 94; herb. Marshall, 2451 ; Wimmer (H. S.) 1 ; Wirtgen, xvii, 984. 
Small shrub or dwarf shrub, prostrate, ascending, or erect, less creeping than S. repens. 
Young branches more or less pubescent. Stipules often persistent. Petioles distinct. Laminae 
variable in size and shape, oval-elliptical to obcuneate, entire or subentire, glabrous or glabrescent 
above, often more or less hairy underneath. Catkins appearing before the leaves ; late March and 
April ; subsessile or on short peduncles, more or less leafy at the base, up to about 3 cm. long 
and 1 broad. Bracts oboval, hairy. Capsules elongate, more or less pubescent. 
Not often recorded, but we believe that it is not uncommon in many places where the two putative parents occur 
together ; e.g., both staminate and pistillate plants of it are rather abundant on Woodwalton Fen, Huntingdonshire, and 
on Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire. The allied hybrid, S. aurita x cinerea x repens Giirke Plant. Europ. ii, 16 (1897) is recorded 
for Sweden and Germany, and probably occurs in this country also. Another allied and still more complicated hybrid, 
5. aurita x caprea x cinerea x repens Giirke loc. cit. is recorded for Germany. 
Local ; Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, Derbyshire, Forfarshire, and Sutherlandshire, and doubtless else- 
where. 
Scandinavia, Germany, France, central Europe (ascending to 1800 m.). 
A. cinerea x viminalis (see page 64). 
17. SALIX AURITA. Plates 55; 34, 36, 44, 56, 57, 62 
Salix folio rotundo minore Dillenius in Ray Syn. ed. 3, 450 (1724); S. caprea pumila folio subrotundo subtus 
incano Dillenius in Ray Syn. ed. 3, 450 (1724). 
Salix aurita L. Sp. PI. 1019 (1753); Syme Eng. Bot. viii, 232 (1868); A. et G. Camus Classif. Saul. 
171 (1904); v. Seemen in Ascherson und Graebner Syn. iv, 111 (1909); Rouy FI. France xii, 205 (1910). 
leones : — Hoffman Hist. Sal. t. 4, t. 5, fig. 3 ; t. 22, fig. 1 a — d ; Smith Eng. Bot. t. 1487; Forbes Sal. Woburn. 
t. 124; FI. Dan. t. 2600; A. et G. Camus op. cit., Atlas t. 16, fig. H — M. 
Camb. Brit. FI. ii. Plate 55. ( a ) Shoot with staminate catkins. ( b ) Shoot with pistillate catkins, (c) Barren 
shoot, (d) Staminate flowers and bract (enlarged), (e) Pistillate flowers (enlarged). Dorset (Rev. E. F. Linton). 
