330 78. AMBNTlFEKiB. 



1. ovate finely toothed minutely veined folded into a keel, cat- 

 kins cylindrical with rounded hairy scales. E. B. 1388. — ^. 8. 

 prunifoha (Sm.) ; 1. broadly ovate toothed smooth on both sides, 

 St. erect much branched. E. B. l.S61.^. S. venulosa (Sm.) ; 1. 

 ovate toothed naked netted with prominent veins above, st. 

 erect much branched. E. B. 1303. — 8. vacciniifolia (Sm.) ; 1. 

 lanceolate-ovate serrate smooth and even above silkv beneath, 

 St. decumbent. E. B. 2341.— Highlands. Sh. IV.— VI. S. 



23. 8. Lappdnum (L.) ; 1. lanceolate or elliptic subacuminate 

 enfAre cottony or silky beneath with crisped hairs wrinkled above 

 and when young downy, germens ovate-lanceolate sUky, stigmas 

 linear. — a. 8. arenaria (L.) ; 1. ovate'lanceolate netted and 

 somewhat downy above veined and woolly beneath, style as 

 long as the sessile woolly germen, stigmas linear. E. B. 1809. 

 Germen with a long slender reddish style. — 0. 8. 8tuartiana 

 (Sm.) ; 1. ovate-lanceolate shaggy above densely silky almost 

 cottony beneath, style as long as the almost sessile woolly ger- 

 men, stigmas capillary deeply divided. E. B. 2586. — [y. 8. 

 glauca (Sm.) ; 1. ovate-lanceolate even and nearly smooth above 

 woolly and snow-white beneath, germens sessile woolly, style 

 at first very short with thick ovate stigmas. E. B. 1810. 

 Germen blunis". Style elongating and the stigmas becoming 

 linear and deeply cloven as the fruit ripens. This is probably not 

 a native. Smith had it from Mr. Crowe's garden. It is hardly 

 the same as a and /3. — 8. glauca L., Wahl., Koch, has sub- 

 terminal catkins with very long leafy stalks and belongs to the 

 next section.] — Breadalbane and' Olova Mountains. Sh. VI. 



vn. s. 



\_8. acutifdlia (Willd.) ; 1. linear-lanceolate acuminate cre- 

 nate-serrate glabrous glaucous beneath, stip. lanceolate acute 

 sub-.J-cordate below, " caps, ovate-conic glabrous sessile, stig. 

 linear-oblong." — 8y. E. B. 1368. — Shoots purple with a glaucous 

 bloom. Male catkins short, thick, very hairy. Fertile plant 

 not yet found in England. 8. daphnoidss fi. Anders. — North 

 Yorkshire, not native. T. IV.] E. 



V. Chnjsanthce. Style long. Stigma entire. Capsule sessile. 

 Anth. yellow, scarcely changing colour. Catkins appearing 

 before the leaves, sessile, terminal and lateral, with very 

 shaggy and silky scales. Leaves broad, roundish. 



24. 8. landta (L.) ; I. broadly oval pointed entire shaggy be- 

 neath, stip. oval, catkins with yellow silky hairs, germ, conical 

 glabrous.— .E. B. 8. 2624.— A low (2 ft.) and very beautiful 

 shrub. — Clova and Glen Lochay Mountains. Sh. V. VI. S. 



