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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 blunter. Style elongating and the stigmas becoming 

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

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

 the same as a and /3. — S. glauca L., WahL, Koch, has subter- 

 terminal catkins with very long leafy stalks and belongs to the 

 next section.] — Breadalbane and Clova Mountains, Sh. VI. 



vn. S. 



\_S. acvtifolia (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. 1366. — Shoots purple with a glaucous 

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

 not yet found in England. B. daphnoides j3. Anders. — ^North 

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



V. Cliryaanthce. 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. 



\_S. hastdta (L.) ; 1. broadly elliptic wavy thick and crackling 

 quite glabrous beneath, stip. unequally heartshaped longer than 

 petioles, catkins with silvery hairs, germ, subulate glabrous 

 stalked. — S. malifolia Sm., E. B, 1617. — Unknown. Probably 

 belongs to this t-ribe. — Sands of Barrie. Sh. V.] S. 



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

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

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

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



Sec. 3. Chamelyx (Fries). Catkins on long leafy persistent 

 shoots from the terminal or subterminal buds. Stam. 2. Nec- 

 tary " of 2 pieces, one between the catkin-scale and germen, the 

 other opposite to it." 



i. Myrmites. Catkins at the extremity of the terminal shoot, 

 or of those fi-om the last but one or two of the buds, but 

 in such a manner as to appear to be an elongation of the 

 branch. Small bushy plants. 



25. S. Myrsinites (L.) ; 1. elliptic or lanceolate serrate shining 

 often hairy with prominent veins, germens subsessile ovate-subii- 

 late downy, style long. — St. much branching. — a. S. arbuti- 

 folia (Sm.) ; 1. ovate or lanceolate rather acute. 8. Myrsinites /3 



