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wards; fl. June-July. Shrubby, 2-3 ft., erect or decumbent; branches 

 stout, brown, buds woolly. Leaves 1-2 in., veiy variable, quite entire or 

 sinuate-serrate, dull green above ; petioles rather long, dilated at the base. 

 Catkins preceding the leaves ; male ovoid, scales black, anthers yellow ; 

 female longer, 1-3 in. Capsule conical, subsessile ; style very long, stigmas 

 filiform, cleft. DISTEIB. Mts. of France and N: Italy, Scandinavia to the 

 Arctic circle, Siberia, N. America. The Edinburgh specimens seen by me 

 are flowerless ; this locality is anomalous for so alpine a plant. 

 The following varieties differ by very slight and inconstant characters : 

 S. arena'ria, Sm. (sp. and L. in part) ; leaves downy above woolly beneath, 

 style equalling the capsule. S. Stuartia'na, Sm. (sp. ) ; leaves woolly above 

 silky and cottony beneath, style equalling the capsule. S. glau'ca, Sm. (sp. 

 not L. ) ; leaves snow-white and woolly beneath, style much shorter than the 

 capsule. (I should doubt this being the same species.) 



13. S. Myrsini'tes, L. ; dwarf, leaves small rigid ovate obovate or 

 lanceolate shining and reticulate on both surfaces glandular-serrate, stipules 

 or lanceolate, catkins on leafy peduncles, scales spathulate blackish, 

 capsules pilose. S. retusa, Dickson (Andersson). 



Moist rocks and rivulets in Braemar, Breadalbane and Clova Mts., ascending 

 to 2,700 ft. ; fl. June-July. A small rigid suberect or creeping shrub, 

 young parts clothed with silky deciduous hairs. Leaves usually ^1 in., 

 very variable, dark green and glossy ; petioles very short ; stipules ovate- 

 lanceolate, serrate. Catkins i-1 in., appearing with or after the leaves, on 

 stout peduncles often as long" oblong, male ovoid ; scales pilose, disk large ; 

 anthers at length black. Capsule, pilose or pubescent, distinctly pedicelled ; 

 style long, stigmas thick. DiSTRlB. Alps of Scandinavia (Arctic), Austria, 

 Germany and France, Siberia, N. America. The following British varie- 

 ties are enumerated. VAR. 1, procum'bens, Forbes (sp.), (8. Icevis, Hook.) ; 

 leaves broad subacute faintly serrate. VAR. 2, arbutifo' lia, 



narrow acute or acuminate very faintly serrate. VAR. 3, serra'ta, Syme ; 

 leaves ovate acute serrate. 



S. Graha'mi, Borr. MS. (Baker in Seem. Jour. Bot. 1867, 157, t. 66), is a plant 

 only known from female specimens cultivated in the Edinburgh Bot. garden 

 said to have been brought by Prof. Graham from Frouvyn in Sutherland 

 (Baker and Syme are mistaken in supposing that any of Borrer"s speci- 

 mens are indigenous.) It appears to me to be a form of S. Myrsinites, 

 with smaller catkins, paler scales, and a perfectly glabrous capsule with a 

 rather long very silky pedicel ; and not at all allied to S. polaris or herbacea. 

 Syme suspects it to be a hybrid between herbacea and nigricans or phylicifolia. 

 The Enyl. Bot. figures of the ovary and scale are very incorrect. 



14. S. Arbus'cula, L. ; leaves ovate-lanceolate or obovate acuminate 



serrulate shining above pale or glaucous beneath, catkins lateral on brac- 



teate peduncles, scales obtuse hirsute, capsules sessile tomeutose. 



Rocks on the Mts. of Argyle, Perth, Forfar, and Aberdeen, ascending to 



2,400ft.; also in S. Scotland (Syme); unknown in Ireland; fl. June-July. 



A small, rigid, decumbent, rooting shrub ; twigs yellow, pubescent, then 



brown. Leaves %-!% in., very variable, at first silky beneath. Catkins 



^-1 in., females often long-peduncled ; scales obovate or rounded, reddish, 



very pubescent. Capsules conical, reddish, base embraced by the scale ; 



style long, deeply cleft, stigmas thick notched. DiSTRlB. Alps of Mid. and 



