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afterwards elongate, but are scarcely ever more than l^ times their 

 breadth when the capsules are mature; it is a smaller" shrub than 

 usual in this species, and in that respect more like the next ffroup ; 

 its stigmas are at length bifid. S. Croweana has certainly the ovaries 

 very cottony, as Smith says, though they are represented glabrous in 

 the Sal. Wob. t. 52, ** by a mistake of the artist,'' Forbes in liiL We 

 have the fertile plant of apparently the same from the Ed. Bot. Gar- 

 den, where it was introduced by the late Mr. MacNab and marked 

 <* common about Edinburgh:" a specimen from Smith has the sta- 

 mens scarcely monadelphous even at the very base, and the accom- 

 panying leaves do not differ from those of S. nitens ; Mr. Borrer's 

 fertile plant with glabrous germens is possibly S, philhjreifolia. 

 are not acquainted with S. laxiflora, and have seen no form with long 

 linear stigmas as in the figure and descriptipn of that species in 

 E. B. Supp. We cannot refer S. bicolor Ehrh. ? {S. tenuifoiia'E. B. 

 t. 2186, and S. floribunda Sal. Wob. t. 54) to any of the above 

 varieties, as the fertile plant is not as yet known with certainty ; but 

 the same form of leaf occasionally occurs in S, Borreriana, amcena 

 (which IS the Weigeliana Willd. and Sal. Wob.), and also in S. nitens; 

 Mr. Forbes, however, remarks that the « young leaves are tino-ed 

 with red. The foreign >S'. bicolor seems to be precisely S. Croweana 

 but with the stamens distinct, sf^ ' ' 



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the ovary, hairy, 

 minute. 



. .■ ^ or brown when empty. 



Ovaries oblong or ovate, densely pubescent, nearly sessile; stalk ichen 

 present much shorter than the -nectary. Style as long as the ovate 

 emarginate or cloven obtuse stigmas. Catkins appearing along with the 

 leaves, terminal on short few-leaved lateral shoots, at first very compact ; ■ 

 scales of a uniform yellowish-h^rown colour when dried, half as ling as 



''""' ' Leaves more or less veiny above; stipules if>ne or 



Small erect or diffuse rarely prostrate shrubs ; stems above 

 ground. Vacciniifolias Borr. 



33. S. Arhuscula L. : Wahl (small TreeJV.); leaves lanceo- 



ate-ovate or ovate finely serrate. S. myrsinites Light/, — a. 



leaves opaque above glaiicous beneath. S. vacciniifolia Walk.: 



^. i^. t. 2341 (leaves flat smaller narrower and less prominently 



vemed above). S. venulosa Sm. : E. B. t. 1362 (leaves flat 



R rTo^^'^J^ ^^^'y ^^^^^^^ ^^''^^^ above). S. carinata Sm, : E. 



^. t. 1363 (leaves ovate folded so as to form a keel). S. pruni- 

 oiia Sm. : E. B. t. 1361 (leaves broadly ovate flat).-/3. leaves 

 Droaciiy or roundish ovate prominently veined above) green but 



scarcely shmmg on both sides. y ^ ^ut 



6 7 ^If^i""""^ mountains, not unfrequent. — ^. Ben Lawers, J^. 



Lioh^ a\7T ""^ ^'^'^ ^^""^'^^ P^^""* ^^^' ^^ ^^^ ^^^^'^^ dull green." 

 y U' All these are, we believe, decumbent shrubs on their native 



e erect and about 

 prostrata Ehrh., 



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niounta.ns, but when cultivated, they become mor< 

 whi^h 1 ^ "" 'P^"^' *'"' ^^ '-■'osely allied to S. 



distinlni 7T- u? ."'"'°''' '"^'''^ ^^^'-^'' We cannot satisfactorily 



ou acco, f ^™'^,'^ %f""'" species; he separates S. vacciniifolia chiefly 



^uunt ot the leaves being narrower and silky beneath and the 



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