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young ones especially) quite entire or -with a few very minute 

 glandular teeth, catkins at first shortly ovate or oblono- after- 

 wards more lax, ovaries stalked silky oblong-lanceolate acumi- 

 nate, style about as long as the linear divided or entire stio'mas 

 scales short villous. £. B, t. 1365. ' 



Found by Sherard. 

 Tj. 4. 



Highlands of Scotland. 



4, 



Sent by il/r. Dickson to Mr, Croive (Sm\ 

 A slender, upright shruhy 2 — 3 feet high, with silky feai'e^ 

 nearly glabrous in the adult plant. Whole plant, when dry, often 

 turning almost black, as does the following. Mr. Leefe observes 

 that -S*. rosmarini folia, L. and Koch, differs in the fertile catkins being 

 almost round and very short, buried in the floral leaves, and not 

 curved as in E. Bot. : we find them to vary much in these respects. 



15. S. angustifolia AVulf. ? (little Tree TF.); erect slender 

 leaves linear-lanceolate nearly glabrous with minute glandular 

 teeth the young ones silky glaucous beneath, catkins ovate 

 erect, ovaries ovate-acuminate silky stalked, style about as lono- 

 as the broad erect entire stigmas, scales very villous neai'ly as 

 long as the young germens afterwards often as short as the 

 stalk to the capsule. S- Arbuscula Smr. E. B. t. 1366 (not of 

 Continental authors). 



Clova mountains. Near Dumfries. \^ 

 The large broad leaves represented in E. Bot. cannot belono- to 

 this species. Mr. Forbes has well observed that the present is so closely 

 allied to the last that he is disposed to consider them the same ; and 

 it is certainly a matter of surprise, that two plants, so much resem- 

 bling each other, should be placed so far apart as they are in E. FL 

 Still we agree with Mr. Borrer in thinking them distinct, though the 

 difference lies almost entirely in their germens, which are broa^der at 

 the base in the present plant, with ovate and quite entire stigmas, and 

 more shaggy scales. Although this may be, as Sir J. E. Smith 

 assures us, the S. Arhuscida of Linn, Herb,, yet Mr. Borrer, on a 

 recent examination, has come to a different opmion, and the plant is 

 quite at variance with the Arbuscula of other Continental authors, and 

 with the figures both of Linnasus and Wahlenburg, which represent, 

 the leaves distinctly serrate. ^ 



16. S. Donidna Sm. {Don's TF.) ; branches at first procum- 

 bent then erect and twiggy, leaves partly opposite oblong- 

 lanceolate broadest above the middle acute slightly serrate 

 even livid and somewhat silky beneath, stipules linear, catkins 

 erect cylindrical compact, ovaries stalked silky longer than the 

 obovate scale, stigmas short emarginate. E. B, S?t. 2599. 



WPS 'Th? fiThl^;^.t"l^^'^ 1? ^"f .''^^' ^* ^^^^« ^"d S. amhigua have broad 

 leaves; the hrst has them usuaUy glabrous above and there whf^n HrieH nro- 



mmently reticulated and often black ; the latter always of ^n n.hv r^lmir 

 5. rosmarinifolia has narrow silky leaves un' hi in^.^.f? an ashy colour. 



narrow leave's, broad erect stigmas^ S bx^" ir "catL /J^^'^ b.^^ 



narrow leaves and dense catkins. vc*liviu» , o. uomana u!>udii> 



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