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 THE SALIX LISTS IN THE 'LONDON CATALOGUE.' 461 could tell where the typical plant ends and the variety begins. Additional records are : Port Elizabeth, Farquhar ! British Kaffraria, Flanagan ! The record of Phacelocarpiis tristichum J. Ag. must be omitted. The plant referred to is P. tortnosiis Endl. & Dies. Erythroclonium corallinum Holmes = Lomentaria corallina Kiitz. Cape Morgan, Flanagan I Ectoclinium Kowiense Holmes. Kowie, Becker Vanvoorstia spectabilis Harv. Isipingo, Weher van Bossel PolysipJioina Fappeana Klitz. Through the kindness of Major Reinbold, I have seen a specimen of Pappe's plant no. 13, described in Kiitzing's Spec. Alg. 813, collected at Table Bay. It is identical with P. atro-rubescens Grev. Kuetzingia natalensis J. Ag. Natal, Evans ! (To be continued.) THE SALIX LISTS IN THE 'LONDON CATALOGUE.' By E. F. Linton, M.A. The existence of two lists of Salices in the ninth edition of the London Catalogue may be best explained by quoting Mr. Hanbury's statement in his introductory remarks (March, 1895): — "Owing to the lamented death of Dr. White in December last, he never saw his list in print. All possibility of discussing several important points having passed, I deemed it best to insert Dr. White's list in its entirety, and to ask the Rev. E. F. Linton to supply an alterna- tive list to be printed at the end of the Catalogue.'' The result is two lists, which differ from one another in the order of species and in some few details, but are alike in their abolition of many eye in previous editions. This paper is written for the purpose of discussing the differ- ences between the two lists, as fairly as may be under the circum- stances, from one point of view. No one regrets more than myself that we cannot now aiulire alteram partem from one who so thoroughly entered into N. J. Andersson's views of the specific order of the Willows, and made such good use of his opportunities of studying the British species of this genus, as the late Dr. Buchanan White. We have been familiarized for many years in this country with the specific order of Andersson, Sir J. D. Hooker having adopted it in the Student's Flora with two or three variations, viz. the sub- ordination of S. cmerea to S. Caprea as a subspecies, and the inser- tion of S. Sadleri Syme as a numbered species after S. Myrsinites, followed by S. Arbuscula, which Andersson places after S. phylicifolia. Dr. White also took Andersson's order of species in the main, but transposed S. aurita and S. cmerea^ and degraded S. nigricans as a variety of S. phylicifolia ; thus making one species less for Britain
 * species " and most of the varieties which were familiar to the