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its leaves are 1^ inch long and only ^ inch broad, they are hairy, 

 but shining when the hairs are rubbed off. In S. arhutifolia of 

 Switzerland the leaves, which are not twice as long as broad and are 

 always pointed, seem never to become black when drying"; and its 

 catkins are almost as elongated in the next species. 



35. ^.procumh ens YovhQ% (smooth-leaved alpine TF.); leaves 

 oval (rarely acute) obscurely serrate shining quite glabrous 

 not black when dried, catkins elongated, style cloven to the 

 middle (or below it) as long as the stigmas. SaL Wob. t. 61. : 

 E. B, S. t. 2753. S. retusa With. Bot Arr. t. 31. S. l^evis 

 Brit, Fl ed. 1. p. 482. 



Highlands of Scotland. 

 6. 



Glen Coe. 



Breadalbane mountains, 1 801 . 

 Tj. 6, — A low procumbent sArw^, bearing a considerable resem- 

 blance to the J^st, but distinct, if our description of its catkins 

 applies to British specimens. It was originally communicated to 

 Withering "by Mr, Griffith, to whom Mr. Townson sent roots fiona 

 Scotland under the name of retusa,^'' and first noticed in one of tlie 

 earlv editions of his work : it is also inserted in Hull's Brit. Flora in 

 1799. Mr. Winch found it in 1801, but he retained no notes of 



the precise locality, and it has not been re-discovered. 

 Stuart met with it we do not know. 



Where Mr. 



The catkins are in maturity 

 three or f.)ur times as long as those of S, myrsinites ; the leaves are 

 flatter, less serrate at the margin, and dry to a yellowish-brown 

 colour. 



XV. Stamens 2, distinct Anthers yelloio or brown when empty. Ovaries 

 ovate-htnceolate, shortly stalked j stalk mostly shorter than the gland. 

 Style bifida as long as the obtuse bifid stigmas. Catkins appearing 

 with the full-grown leaves^ terminal, few-flowered ; scales brownish, 

 glabrous. Leaves roundish, serrate, with elevated veins, glabrous, 

 not glaucous. Dwarf alpine prostrate shrubs, the stems creeping below 

 the surface, Herbaceae Borr. 



36. S. herhdcea L. (least W.)'^ leaves orbicular serrate gla- 

 brous shining veined, ovaries glabrous. E, B. t. 1907. 



Snowdon and other Welsh mountains. Skiddaw, Plentiful upon 



the summits of all the Highland mountains. 



h. 6. 



The least of 



our British species, though not so small as is generally supposed, for 

 Its stems divide and creep below the surface of the earth, scarcely 

 rising an inch above. In the Botanic Garden of Edinburgh what 

 ^vas supposed to be this species has acquired a prostrate woody stem, 



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3 feet long and nearlv as thick as the little finger; but it more 



resemhles the true S, r^usa, and if really from the mountains of 

 Sutherland, from whence it is understood to have been brought by 

 the late Dr. Graham, it is worthy of being sought for. 



xvi. 



Stamens mostly 2 and distinct. Anthers permanently yellow. 

 Ovaries glabrous, lanceolate, acuminate. Style elongated, bifid. Stigmas 

 entire or bifid. Catkins appearing before the leaves, sessile, terminal 

 ^nd lateral, large, obtuse, with very shaggy and silky scales. Leaves 

 broadly elliptical or roundish, large, glaucous beneath ; stipules large 



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