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and commonly more or less thickly clothed with adpressed silky 

 hairs beneath, or rarely glabrous when full-grown. Stipules minute 

 lanceolate, often absent. Catkins o])cning at the same time as the 

 leaf-buds, subsessile or shortly stalked, with a few leaves at the l)ase 

 broadly ovate or subglobular-ovate, dense. Catkin-scales obovate. 

 Stamens 2 ; filaments free, glabrous. ' Capsule lanceolate- or ovate- 

 conical, grey with silky pubescence, on a stalk two or three times as 

 long as the nectary; style very short; stigmas ovate, short, thick, 

 cleft or entire. Young branches and buds silky white ; youn"- leaves 

 more or less silky. 



Var. a, genuina. 



Plate MCCCLXIII: 



S. rosraarinifolia, Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 1365, and Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. p. 214. nook. 

 Brit. Fl. ed. iv. p. 360. Eoolc. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 402. Bah. Man. Brit. 

 Bot. ed. vi. p. 313. 



Catkins frequently eurved when young. Catkin-scales short, hairy. 

 Capsule lanceolate-conical; stigmas cleft. 



^3; Var. /3, angustifolia* 

 Plate MCCCLXIV. 



S. angustifolia, Wulf. Hoolc. Brit. Fl. ed. iv. p. 360. IIoolc. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. 



p. 403. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. p. 313. 

 S. Arbuscula, Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 1366, and Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. p. 107 (non 



Linn.). 



Catkins erect, straight. Catkin-scales nearly as long as the young 

 germens, woolly. Capsule ovate-conical; stigmas entire. 



In spongy bogs, but very doubtfully native. Var. a is said by 

 Dillenius to have been found in England by Sherrard, and sent to 

 Crowe by Dickson, who is presumed to have found it in the Highlands 

 of Scotland. Var. 3 is said to have been gathered in the Highlands 

 of Scotland by Mr. Dickson ; it is also alleged to have occurred in tlie 

 Clova Mountains, and on the banks of the Nith, twenty miles above 

 Dumfries. 



[England? Scotland?] Shrub. Late Spring. 



A small shrub, 2 to 4 feet high, with long straiglit fuscous or 

 testaceous erect or ascending branches. The leaves are 1 to 2 inches 

 long, and rarely more than ^ inch broad ; the catkins irom -| to i inch 

 long. The long leaves and short catkins are the only points which 



* Erroneously named argentifolia on the plate. 

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