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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 opening at the same time as the 
leaf-buds, subsessile or shortly stalked, with a few leaves at the base, 
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 ard buds silky white; young leaves 
more or less silky. 
Var. a, genuina. 
Prats MCCCLXIII. 
8. rosmarinifolia, Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 1365, and Engl. FI. Vol. IV. p. 214. Hook. 
Brit. Fl. ed. iv. p. 360. Hook. & Arn. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 402. Bab. Man, Brit. 
Bot. ed. vi. p. 313. 
Catkins frequently curved when young. Catkin-scales short, hairy. 
Capsule lanceolate-conical; stigmas cleft. 
Var. P, angustifolia.* 
Prats MCCCLXIV. 
S. angustifolia, Wulf. Hook. Brit. Fl. ed. iv. p- 860. Hook. & Arn. 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. 197 (non 
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. « 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. 6 is said to have been gathered in the Highlands 
of Scotland by Mr. Dickson; it is also alleged to have occurred in the 
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 straight fuscous or 
testaceous erect or ascending branches. The leaves are 1 to 2 inches 
long, and rarely more than + inch broad; the catkins from + to} inch 
long. The long leaves and short catkins are the only points which 
* Erroncously named argentifolia on the plate, 
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