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ix. Arbiisculce. Stain. 2. Aiith. yellow or brown when empty. 
Catkins siibsessile braeteated at the base; seales diseoloured at the 
end. Stalks of the capsules 0 or shorter than the ylatid. Shrubs 
with an exposed trunk. 
A. Vacciniifolia Borr. 
52. S. Arbuscula (L., Fries, Koch) ; 1. lanceolate-ovate or 
ovate glabrous smooth glancons and ojiaque beneath finely ser- 
rated, germens oblong-ovate silky, stigmas bifid. — I believe that 
the foliowing 4 plants are forms of one species. — a. S. carinata 
(Sm.) ; 1. ovate finely toothed minutely veined folded into a keel, 
catkins cylindrical with rounded hairy scales. E. B. 1363. — 
/3. S. prunifolia (Sm.) ; 1. broadly ovate toothed smooth on both 
sides, st. erect much branched. E.B. 1361. — y. S. venulosa (Sm.); 
1. ovate toothed naked reticulated ivith prominent veins above, 
st. erect much branched. E. B. 1362. — S. S. vacciniifoUa (Sm.) ; 
1. lanceolate-ovate serrated smooth and even above silky beneath, 
st. decumbent. £. B. 2341. — Highlands. Sh. IV. — Vl. S. 
B. Glaucce Borr. 
53. S. arenaria (L.); 1. lanceolate or elliptical subacuminate 
entire cottony or silky beneath with crisped hairs wrinkled above 
and when young downy, germens ovate-lanceolate silky, stigmas 
linear. — S. Lapponum L., Fries, Koch. — I follow Koch in re- 
ducing 3 of Smith’s species to one. — a. S. arenaria (L.); 1. 
ovate-lanceolate reticulated 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 red- 
dish style. — /3. S. Stuartiana (Sm.); 1. ovate-lanceolate shaggy 
above densely silky almost cottony beneath, style as long as the 
almost sessile woolly germen, stigmas capillary deeply divided. 
E. B. 2586. — y. S. glauca (Sm.); 1. ovate-lanceolate even and 
nearly smooth above woolly and snow-white beneath, germens 
sessile woolly, style very short with thick ovate stigmas. E. B. 
1810. Germen blunter. Style elongating and the stigmas be- 
coming linear and deeply cloven as the fruit ripens. S. glauca 
L., Wahl., Koch, has subterminal catkins with very long leafy 
stalks and belongs to the next section. — Breadalbane and Clova 
Mountains. Sh. VI. VII. S, 
III. Pedunculat,® terminales. 
Catkins on long leafy persistent shoots from the terminal or 
subterminal buds. Chamelyx Fries. 
X. Myrsinites (Borr.). Catkins at the extremity of the termi- 
nal shoot, or of those from 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. 
54. S. Myrsinites (L.) ; 1. elliptical or lanceolate serrate shining 
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