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v. CJirysantha. Style long. Stigma entire. Capsule sessile. 

 Anth. yellow, scarcely changing colour. Catkins appearing 

 before the leaves, sessile, terminal and lateral, with very 

 shaggy and silky scales. Leaves broad, roundish. 



25. S. landta (L.) ; /. broadly oval pointed entire shaggy 

 ben-eath, stip. oval, catkins with vellow silky hairs, germ, conical 

 glabrous. #. B. S. 2624. A low (2 ft.) and very beautiful 

 shrub. Clova and Glen Lochay Mountains. Sh. V. VI. S, 



Sec. 3. CHAMKLYX (Fries). Catkins on long leafy persistent 

 shoots from the terminal or subterminal buds. Stam. 2. Nec- 

 tary "of 2 pieces, one between the catkin-scale and germen, the 

 other opposite to it." 



i. Myrsinites, Catkins at the extremity of the terminal shoot, 

 or of those from the last but one or two of the buds, but 

 in such a manner as to appear to be an elongation of the 

 branch. Small bushy plants. 



26. S. Myrsinites (L.) ; 1. elliptic or lanceolate serrate shining 

 often hairy with prominent veins, germens subsessile ovate-subu- 

 late downy, style long. St. much branching. a. S. arbuti- 

 folia (Sm.); 1. ovate or lanceolate rather acute. S. Myrsinites ft. 

 Sm. )3. S. Myrsinites (Sm.) ; 1. elliptic serrate nearly smooth, 

 catkins short, styles short, stigmas cloven. E. B. 1360. High- 

 lands. Sh. VI. S. 



27. 8. procum'bens (Forbes) 1 ; 1. oval minutely serrate bright 

 green and shining on both sides, catkins long cylindrical, germens 

 subsessile ovate lanceolate downy, style short deeply cloven, 

 stigmas bifid. E. B. S. 2753. Scales of the catkin nearly black, 

 longer and more hairy than in S. Myrsinites. A low procumbent 

 much- branched shrub. Highlands. Sh. VI. S. 







[Fries states that S. retusa (L.) was found by Mr. Winch in 

 Scotland ; but there is no such plant in his Herb.] 



28. S. Grdhami (Baker) 2 ; /. oval obscurely crenate shining- 

 glabrous silky beneath netted with veins, germ, stalked ovate 

 prolonged glabrous, style long, stigma bifid, young branches 

 silky./, of B. v. t. 66. Sy. E. B. 1377. St. long, trailing. 



1 Considered a form of 8. Myrsinites by Dr. White. H. & J. G. 



2 Dr. White refers the Scottish plant to S herbaceaXpJiylicifolia and 

 the Irish plant to S. herbaceaXphylicifolia, subsp. nigricans. Mr. E. F. 

 Linton refers the former to S. herbacea X Myrsinites. H. & J. G. 



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