384 78. AMENTIFEILE. 



)3. major ; 1. obovate very silky on botli sides.- y. spathulata ; 

 1. obovate or ovate-lanceolate moderately hairy or silky, style 

 somewhat long. d. undulata* 1. ovate-lanceolate. Gravelly 

 heaths. Sh. V. E. S. I. 



iv. Daphnoidecg. Style long. Capsule subsessile. Catkins 

 subsessile, bracteate at the base. Arbusculce Bab. 



23. S. Arbus'cula (L., Fries) ; L lanceolate-ovate or ovate gla- 

 brous smooth glaucous and opaque beneath finely serrate, ger- 

 mens oblong-ovate silky, stigmas bifid. a. S, carinata (Sm.) ; 

 1. ovate finely toothed minutely veined folded into a keel, cat- 

 kins cylindrical with rounded hairy scales. E. B. 1363. /3. S. 

 prunifolia (Sm.) ; 1. broadly ovate toothed smooth on both sides, 

 st. erect much branched. E. B. 1361. y. S. venulosa (Sm.) ; L 

 ovate toothed naked netted with prominent veins above, st. 

 erect much branched. E. B. 1362. 8. vacciniifoUa (Sin.) ; 1. 

 lanceolate-ovate serrate smooth and even above silky beneath, 

 st. decumbent. E. B. 2341. Highlands. Sh. IV. VI. S. 



24, S. Lapponum (L.) ; 1. lanceolate or elliptic subacuminate 

 entire cottony or silky beneath with crisped hairs wrinkled above 

 and when young downy, germens ovate-lanceolate silky, stigmas 

 linear. a. S. arenaria (L.); 1. ovate-lanceolate netted and 

 somewhat downy above veined and woolly beneath, style as 

 long as the sessile woolly germen, stigmas linear. E. B. 1809. 

 Germen with a long slender reddish style. /3. 8. Stuartiana 

 (Sm.) ; 1. ovate-lanceolate shaggy above densely silky almost 

 cottony beneath, style as long as the almost sessile woolly ger- 

 men, stigmas capillary deeply divided. E. B. 2586. [y. S. 

 ylauca (Sm.) ; 1. ovate-lanceolate even and nearly smooth above 

 woolly and snow-white beneath, germens sessile woolly, style 

 at first very short with thick ovate stigmas. E. B. 1810. 

 Germen blunter. Style elongating and the stigmas becoming 

 linear and deeply cloven as the fruit ripens. This is probably not 

 a native. Smith had it from Mr. Crowe's garden. It is hardly 

 the same as a and /3. S. ylauca L., WaliL, Koch, has sub- 

 terminal catkins with very long leafy stalks and belongs to the 

 next section.] Helvellyn. Breadalbane, Clova, and other Scot- 

 tish Mountains. Sh. VI. VII. E. S. 



\_S. acutifolia (Willd.) ; 1. linear-lanceolate acuminate cre- 

 nate-serrate glabrous glaucous beneath, stip. lanceolate acute 

 sub-^-cordate below, " caps, ovate-conic glabrous sessile, stig. 

 linear-oblong." Ky.E.B. 1366. Shoots purple with a glaucous 

 bloom. Male catkins short, thick, very hairy. Fertile plant 

 not yet found in England. S. daplmoides ft. Anders. North 

 Yorkshire, not native. T. IV.] E. 



