AMENTIFERA. 257 
Var. 8, procumbens. 
Prats MCCCLXXVI. 
S. procumbens, Forbes. Borrer in Engl. Bot. Suppl. No. 2753. Hook. Brit. Fl. ed. iv. 
p. 473. Hook. & Arn. Brit, Fl. ed. viii. p. 412. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vi. 
p. 315. 
Leaves oval, subobtuse, very faintly serrated, at length nearly 
glabrous. Catkins elongate, thick. 
Var. y, arbutifolia. 
Leaves elliptical or oblanceolate, acute or acuminate, very faintly 
serrated, at length nearly glabrous. Catkins rather elongate, thick. 
In wet places, on the sides of mountains. Rare. It occurs on the 
Breadalbane, Clova, and Braemar mountains. 
Scotland. Shrub. Summer. 
A small shrub, rarely above a foot long, with shining chestnut bark; 
the stem contracted at the end of each year’s growth, much branched, 
with the branches divaricate, some short and ascending, others longer 
and procumbent. Leaves very variable in shape and size, 3 to 14 
inch long, glossy, with conspicuously elevated veins on both surfaces. 
Catkins on stalks } to 1 inch long, the catkins varying from } to 
2 inches in length, very thick for the size of the plant. Capsules olive 
or reddish-brown, rather thinly hairy, the hairs frequently deciduous. 
The length of the style and the depth to which it is cleft are very 
variable; the stigmas are very broad and spreading. Hairs of the coma 
of the seeds snow-white. The male catkins I have not seen, but the 
anthers are said to be blue or violet. 
Iam unable to see any grounds for supposing that S. procumbens 
is a species distinct from $. Myrsinites. The length of the catkin, 
given as one of its characters, is unsatisfactory; even on the same 
plant I have seen some catkins twice as long as others in the same 
' stage of growth, and the length of the style is also inconstant. 
Whortleberry-leaved Willow. 
French, Saule a feuilles D’ Arbousier. 
SPECIES (?) XXXII-SALIX GRAHAMI. “ Borrer MS.” Baker. 
Prate MCCCLXXVII. 
Baker in Seemann’s Journ. Bot. 1867, p. 157, and Tab. 66. 
Stem exposed, decumbent or ascending; main branches terminating 
in a barren shoot. Leaves numerous, firm, flat, oval or oval-obovate, 
obtuse, faintly crenate-serrate or nearly entire, green, glabrous, 
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