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viii. Stamens 2, distinct. Capsules crowded , sessile, oblong-ovate, 
downy. Stigmas ovate, almost sessile. Catkins cylindrical, terminal, 
stalked, appearing with the full-grown leaves. Scales pale brown. 
Leaves roundish, extremely reticulate beneath. Dwarf alpine shrubs, 
with the stem creeping below the surface of the ground. Reticulata: 
Borr. 
19. S. reticulata L. ( reticulate IF) ; leaves nearly glabrous 
above, glaucous beneath. E. B. t. 1908. 
Lofty mountains of the middle and north of Scotland. T? . 6, 7. 
— A species said to have been found in England and Wales, but 
not on good authority. Stem short, very woody, much branched, 
procumbent, when cultivated forming a beautiful tuft of considerable 
extent, with its curiously reticulate and large handsome leaves white 
or glaucous on their under side. The catkins and stems have a reddish 
or purplish tinge. 
ix. Stamens 2, distinct. Capsules sessile, ovate, very downy or silky. 
Catkins somewhat compact, lateral, appearing with the leaves; their 
scales discoloured at the end. Leaves between roundish-ovate and 
oblony-lanceolate, soft, hairy and silky, often white and cottony beneath. 
Small erect shrubs. Glaueas Borr. 
20. S. arendria L. ( downy Mountain TF.) ; leaves cottony and 
sometimes also silky beneath, catkins usually naked at the base 
rarely on lateral leafy shoots, style at length elongated bifid at 
the apex with bipartite stigmas. — a. leaves with gray or whitish 
wool or down on the upper side, which sometimes falls off 
through age leaving the dull surface of the leaf, styles always 
elongated, catkins leafless. E. B. t. 1809. S. Stuartiana Sm. : 
E. B.t. 2586. S. limosa Wahl. — ,o*. leaves elliptic-lanceolate, 
very soon quite glabrous and shining above, styles usually short 
at first lengthening as the fruit ripens, catkins leafless (or rarely 
on lateral leafy shoots. S. glauca Sm. : E. B. t. 1810. 
a. Highland mountains, especially those of Breadalbane and Clova. 
b . 6, 7. — It is almost impossible to refer the LinnEean synonyms 
to these plants, without some objections being started. Our var. a. 
is certainly the 5. arenaria L. ; but that name was given in consequence 
of Linnaeus confusing with it X. fusca var. f., which alone merited it. 
The X. arenaria Sm. appears to be the S. Lapponum L„ as to the 
synonym of the Flvr. Lapponica (where he says folia subtus crassis- 
simo vellere albo tecta ) and perhaps of the first edition of the Flor. 
Syecica, but not that of the second, where S. sericea Vill. is described; 
and this last, according to Smith, is the S. Lapponum of the Linnaean 
herbarium : again, S. Stuartiana Sm. seems to be the state of S. 
arenaria, of which a leaf is figured in the Flor. Lapponica. The 
variety a. varies much in the foliage : we have collected specimens in 
the Clova mountains with some leaves roundish-obovate and slightly 
cordate, and others elliptic-oblong: this we suspect to be the S. lanata 
of G. Don, both sides of the leaves being more white and woolly than 
usual. S, arenaria Sm. is said to have the leaves ovate, acute, and only 
