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or lanceolate pubescent slightly toothed with a recurved pohit 

 somewhat rugose above glaucous with prominent veins beneath 

 catkins stalked erect cylindrical, gcrmens stalked densely silky' 



stvie verv short, stio-rnas short at leno-th rlovpn." Tin^^ : ' 



Borr, 



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E. B, S. t. 2733. — a. leaves oval or obovate moderately hairy 

 S. ambigua Ehrh. (not oi Pm^sJi). S. versifolia Ser. — /i. leaves 

 obovate very silky on both sides. — y. leaves obovate lanceolate 

 or oblong moderately hairy or silky. S. spathulata Willd, 



a. Gravelly heaths. Sussex, Essex, Suffolk. Perthshire, Aber- 

 deen, Inverness, Angus, Caithness, Orkney, and the Hebrides. 



" * Forest; Hopton, Suffolk. Be- 



A straggling 



^. Bogs near Forfar. — 7. Eppin^ 

 tween Balnagard and Aberfeldie, Scotland. 





h. 5. 



shrubj with branches sometimes procumbent, sometimes rising a foot 

 or two from the ground ; at other times it is of an upright growth 



3 — 4 feet high. Young twigs downy. Leaves thin, somewhat 

 rugose, with veins sunken above and prominent beneath ; upper side 

 variable as to pubescence and silkiness; under sometimes quite tiare 

 and glaucous, but usually with copious appressed silky or cottony 

 hairs; edges more or less recurved. " S. ambigua approaches on 

 the one side to S. aurita, with the smallest varieties of which it is 

 most likely to be confounded, and on the other to S. fusca ; differing 

 from the former by its less rugose, less vaulted, and less distinctly 

 serrate leaves, and their more delicate texture and less woolly pubes- 

 cence, and the smaller, flatter, and less oblique stipules ; from the 

 latter by its less silvery pubescence, and the more uneven upper sur- 

 iiice of its leaves, and the more prominent veins beneath." Borr. 

 Koch regards it as a hybrid between the two. They are altogether 

 extremely ambiguous plants. The var. j8. is of the most peculiar 

 aspect : we have never seen any specimens, except those from Mr, 



Drummond, and what we ourselves collected in Restennet Moss near 

 Forfar. 





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Stamens 2, distinct. 



Capsules crowded, sessile, oblong^ovate, 

 dowmj. Stigmas ovate, almost sessile. Cathins cylindrical, terminal, 

 stalked, appearing with the full-growji leaves. 



Scales pale brown* 



Dwarf alpine shrubs, 

 with the stem creeping below the surface of the ground. Reticulata 

 £on\ 



Leaves roundish, extr em ehj reticulated beneath. 



19. B. reticulata Ij. (reticulated W,)\ leaves nearly glabrous 

 above, glaucous beneath. E. B. t. 1908. 



Lofty mountains of the middle and north of Scotland. Ji 6,,. 

 A species said to have been found in England and Wales, but 

 not on good authority. Stem short, very woodv, much branched. 

 procumbent, when cultivated forming a beautiful tuft of considerable 

 extent, with its curiously reticulated and large handsome /earn white 

 or glaucous on their under-side. Tlie catkins and stems have a reddish 

 or purplish tmge. 



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