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Exsiccata : — Leefe, i, i; iv, 99; as 5. doniana\ E. F. et W. R. Linton, 6 (hort.), 83 (accidental garden 
hybrid). 
“There can, I think, be no doubt that Leefe’s Sal. Exsicc., iv, 99, and our. ..no. 6, are actual descendants of Borrer’s 
plant” (Rev. E. F. Linton, in Bot. Exch. Club. Rep. for 1909, p. 474 (1910)); and Borrer apparently supplied the plant to 
Sir J. E. Smith for description. 
Undershrub, about 1 — 2 m. in height. Twigs glabrous at maturity. Stipules usually caducous. 
Petioles very short. Laminae more or less sub-opposite, narrowly or broadly lanceolate, attenuate 
below, broadest above the middle, margin subentire to serrulate, apiculate at the apex, dark 
green above and glaucous-grey underneath, glabrous at maturity, often subopposite. Catkins sessile 
or subsessile, elliptical, about 2 cm. long, opening before the leaves ; April and May. Bracts usually 
obovate, ciliate, discolorous. Filaments variable as regards length and amount of cohesion, often 
coherent almost to the apex. Staminate catkins unknown in this country. Pistillate catkins shorter 
and stouter than in S. purpurea. Stigmas subsessile, short. Capsules (in continental specimens, at 
least) hairy or glabrous. 
Very rare. “Sent from Scotland, as British, by the late Mr George Don” (Borrer in Smith Eng. FI. iv, 
213 (1828)); Perthshire. 
Sweden, Denmark (not indigenous), Germany, France, central Europe. 
[S. purpurea x triandra Figert in Deutsche Bot. Monatschr. ix, 61 (1891); A. et G. Camus Classif. 
Saul, ii, 108 (1905). 
leones: — A. et G. Camus op. cit., Atlas ii, t. 6 (39), fig. O, as x S. leiophylla. 
A plant gathered by Mr Wolley Dod in Kent has been doubtfully referred to this parentage (Hanbury 
and Marshall, El Kent. 319 (1899)). 
It has been recorded also for Silesia.] 
5. purpurea X viminalis Wimmer FI. Schles. Denkschr. Nachtr. 4 76 (1845) ; in Flora xxxi, 312 (1848); 
A. et G. Camus Classif. Saul 265 (1905); v. Seemen in Ascherson und Graebner Syn. iv, 312 (1909); Rou y FI. 
France xii, 226 (1910); S. rubra Hudson FI Angl. 364 (1762); S. fissa Hoffman Hist. Sal. 61 (1787); Smith in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. vi, 115 (1802)!; Syme Eng. Bot. viii, 220 (1868) ; S. for by ana 1 Smith FI. Brit. 1041 (1804); 5. 
purpurea-amygdalina Wimmer in Flora xxviii, 436 (1845). 
S. minime fragilis foliis longissimis utrinque viridibus non serratis Sherard in Ray Syn. ed. 3, 449 (1724). 
leones: — Hoffman Hist. Sal. t. 13, t. 14, as S. fissa ; Smith Eng. Bot. t. 1145, as 5. rubra\ t. 1344, as 
S. forbyana\ Forbes Sal. Woburn, t. 5, as S', for by ana ; t. 6, as S. rubra ; Host, t. 34, t. 35, as S. concolor ; 
FI. Dan. t. 2555, as S. rubra\ Reichenbach Icon. t. 586, fig. 2036 [1236], as S. rubra\ Hartig Forst Culturpfl. t. 
1 19 (45 b), as S. rubra ; t. 120 (45 c) as S. rubra var. forby ana ; A. et G. Camus op. cit., Atlas t. 25, fig. E — V, 
as x S. rubra. 
Camb. Brit. FI ii. Plate 6p. ( a ) Shoot with young leaves and pistillate catkins, (b) Leaves, (c) Pistillate 
flowers (enlarged), (d) Bract (enlarged). Cambridge Botanic Garden (R. I. L.). 
Exsiccata : — Billot, 286, as S. rubra ; Fries x, 60, as S. rubra ; A. et J. Kerner ( H . S. A.) 44, as S. elaeagnifolia ; 
45, as S. rubra ; Leefe, 15, as S. nebra and as S. rubra var.; 16, as S. rubra\ i, 23, as S. forbyana ; E. F. et W. R. 
Linton, 7 ; 35, as S. purpurea x viminalis, forbyana ; Tausch, as 5. elaeagnifolia ; Wirtgen, xvii, 982, as S. fissa. 
Small shrub. Petioles about o - 5 — rocm, long. Laminae linear to lanceolate or lanceolate- 
oblong, margin more or less serrate or denticulate and often recurved when young, acute to 
acuminate, at maturity lacking the dense white pubescence underneath of 5 . viminalis. Catkins 
subsessile, leafy at the base, dense-flowered, appearing a little earlier than or with the leaves ; 
April, a little later than S. purpurea. Bracts more or less oboval, discolorous, very hairy. 
Stamens 2. Filaments more or less coherent, often coherent for about half their length. Anthers 
bright red. Style much longer than in S. purpurea. Stigmas linear, as long as or longer than the 
style. Capsules subsessile or shortly stalked, covered with white hairs. 
Alluvial meadows and osier holts, locally abundant ; as far north as the North Riding of Yorkshire, chiefly 
in eastern England. Probably introduced further north and in Ireland. 
Southern Scandinavia, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, France, central Europe, Russia, Spain, Italy ; Caucasus 
to the Amur region and Manchuria. 
1 After J. Forby (fl. about 1800) who sent the original plant to Mr Crowe (Smith Eng. FI. iv, T91 (1828)). 
