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stalks silky. — E. B. S. 2656. — An upright shrub. — /3. S. nitens 
(And.) ; L ovate or elliptical acute slightly serrate. E. B. S. 
2655. — Mountainous places. 13. Scotland and Teesdale. Sh. 
IV. E. S. 
43. S. croweana (Sm.) ; 1. elliptical pointed obsoletely serrate 
naked green and shining above glaucous beneath, stip. half heart- 
shaped, germens silky (Sm.) glabrous (Borr.). — E. B. 1146. — 
A bushy shrub. Stam. combined below. — Swampy places. Sh. 
V. VI. E. 
44. S. bicolor (Ehrh.) ; I. elliptical pointed obsoletely serrate 
slightly hairy green and shining above glaucous beneath, stip. 
crescent-shaped serrated, germens , filaments slightly bearded 
at the base. — S. tenuifolia Sm. E. B. 2186. — A bushy spreading 
shrub.— Glen Lyon. Ettrick. Sh. IV. S. 
45. S. phillyreifolia (Borr.) ; L elliptic-lanceolate acute at 
each end strongly serrate naked glaucous beneath, stip. small, 
germetis and stalks naked. — E. B. S. 2660. — An upright much 
branched shrub. — Highlands of Inverness and Perth. Sh. 
IV. S. 
46. S. dicksoniana (Sm.) ; 1. elliptic acute slightly toothed 
glabrous glaucous beneath, young branches very glabrous, catkins 
ovate short erect, germens ovate silky, stigmas nearly sessile. — 
E. B. 1390.— Scotland. Sh. IV. S. 
viii. Fuscce. Stam. 2. Anth. fuscous-yellow when empty. 
Catkins bracteated at the base ; scales discoloured at the end. 
Stalks of the caps, very rarely not longer than the gland. Shrubs 
with a subterranean creeping trunk. 
A. Rosmarinifolia (Borr.). Small erect shrubs. 
47. S. rosmarinifolia (L.) ; 1. linear-lanceolate silky beneath 
quite entire or remotely glandular-toothed, stip. lanceolate, ger- 
mens silky lanceolate-acuminate, scales short hairy, " style about 
as long as the linear-divided stigmas." — E.B. 1365. — A slender 
upright shrub, 3 feet high. Catkins very short, at first droop- 
ing. Whole plant becoming nearly black in drying. Style short. 
— " Several parts of the north," Sm. Sh. IV." ? 
48. S. angustifolia (Wulf. ?) ; 1. linear-lanceolate silky be- 
neath when young afterwards nearly glabrous remotely glandular- 
toothed, stip. very minute (on strong radical shoots lanceolate 
with the 1. ovate Sm.'), germens densely silky ovate-acuminate, 
scales very villose and nearly as long as the young germens, style 
as long as the erect lanceolate entire stigmas. — 8. Arbuscula Sm. 
E. B. 1366. not Koch, Fries. — A shrub about a foot high. L. 
very much attenuated at both ends, except on the radical shoots 
mentioned by Sm. which I have not seen. — Clova. Dumfries. 
Sh. IV. S. 
