amentifer;e. 955 



Var. 3, prunifolia. 



Plate MCCCLXXII. 



S. prunifolia, Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 1361. Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. p. 103. Ilouk. Brit. 

 Fl. ed. iv. p. 372. 



Ascending. Leaves oval, nearly flat, serrate, glaucous beneath, 

 the veins scarcely elevated on the upper side until the leaf is dry. 



Var. 7, venulosa. 



Plate MCCCLXXIII. 



S. venulosa, Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 1362. Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. p. 195. Uook. Brit. 

 Fl. ed. iv. p. 371. 



Decumbent. Leaves oval-elliptical, nearly flat, serrulate, glaucous 

 beneath, with j)rominent veins on both surfaces. 



Var. S, vaccinifolia. 

 Plate MCCCLXXIV. 



S. vaccinifolia, Wallcer ; Sin. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 2341. Rool: Brit. Fl. ed. iv. p. 



371. 

 S. vaccinifolia and S. livida, Sm. Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. pp. 195 and 199 (non S. livida, 



Wahl). 



Decumbent. Leaves ellijitical, nearly flat, serrate, glaucous and 

 more or less silky beneath, veins scarcely elevated on the upper side 

 until the leaf is dry. 



On rocky ledges of the Highland mountains, especially those of 

 Breadalbane. Var. S, vaccinifolia, also in the mountains in the south 

 of Scotland. 



Scotland. Shrub. Late Spring, Summer. 



A small handsome shrub, intermediate between S. phylicifolia and 

 S. Myrsinites, but certainly much nearer the latter, becoming more 

 erect and sometimes 1 to 3 feet high under cultivation. When wild 

 (at least in Scotland) the main stem is usually more or less decumbent 

 and rooting, with the branches suberect or ascending or decumbent, 

 dark chestnut, glossy, at first yellowish and Avith a few downy hairs. 

 Leaves | to 1^ inch long, variable in breadth and in the degree of 

 glaucescence of the underside as well as in the distinctness of the 

 reticulation of the veins. Catkins ^ to 1 inch long, very slender, the 

 male catkins shorter than the female, and with very short stalks ; the 

 stalks of the female catkins often leafy, sometimes 1 inch long, but 

 more usually about I inch; rachis of the catkin downy. Catkin- 

 scales darker coloured at the apex, half as long as the capsules, 



