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Var. 6, prunifolia. 
Prats MCCCLXXII. 
8. prunifolia, Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i, No. 1361, Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. p.193. Hook. 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. y, venulosa. 
Prate MCCCLXXIII. 
S. venulosa, Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 1862. Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. p. 195. Hook. Brit. 
FI. ed. iv. p. 371. 
Decumbent. Leaves oval-elliptical, nearly flat, serrulate, glaucous 
beneath, with prominent veins on both surfaces. 
Var. 3, vaccinifolia. 
Prats MCCCLXXIV. 
8. vaccinifolia, Walker; Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 2341. Hook. Brit. Fl. ed. iv. p. 
371. 
S. yaccinifolia and §. livida, Sm. Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. pp. 195 and 199 (non S$. livida, 
Wahl.). 
Decumbent. Leaves elliptical, 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. 3, 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 with a few downy hairs. 
Leaves # to 14 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 } inch; rachis of the catkin downy. Catkin- 
scales darker coloured at the apex, half as long as the capsules, 
