berg’s own original idea, a hybrid offspring of S. myrtilloides
and S. limosa of Wahlenberg. Our 8., which also occurs
at Hopton, is remarkable for its lanceolate or almost linear
leaves, and distinctly stalked stipules. In our specimens
of this, both the style and the stalk of the germen are considerably
longer than in the other varieties.
Smith referred Epping Forest specimens of S. ambigua
to his own S. prostrata; but specimens of this last from
himself show it to be most nearly allied, as is admitted in
English Flora, to his S. fcetida (the S. adscendens of Engl.
Bot.), next to which it is arranged, as a variety of S.fusca,
in Hooker’s British Flora.—S. caprea pumila,folio subrotundo,
subtus incano, of Dillenius in Ray’s Synopsis, p. 450, which
has been regarded as a small variety of S. aurita, is probably
a synonym of S. ambigua.
S. ambigua of Pursh is an altogether different Willow,
being very closely allied to S. fragilis.—W . B.
