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LXXXYT SALIC ACE Ah 
[ Salix. ! 
obtuse stigmas or longer. Catkins appearing with the full-grown : 
leaves, terminal on lateral or terminal leafy shoots, soon becoming lax ; 
scales blackish when dried , hairy and shining above, much shorter than 1 
the ovary. Leaves veiny, never glaucous beneath ; stipules ovate or 
lanceolate, conspicuous on the autumnal shoots. Small, much branched 
shrubs ; stems above ground. Myrsinites Borr. 
34. S. Myrsinites L. ( green Whortle-leaved W.) ; leaves 
waved serrate with very prominent veins often hairy at length 
shining blackish when dried, (catkins short, style cloven to the 
middle, longer than the stigmas?). — a. leaves roundish or 
elliptical or obovate. E. B. t. 1360. — /3. leaves (smaller) 
somewhat cordate at the base. — y. leaves (smaller than a.) ovate 
or oblong rather acute. S. arbutifolia Sm. S. Myrsinites 
Linn. Lapp. t. 7 . f. 6. t. 8. f. f.: FI. Dan. t. 1054. — c? leaves 
lanceolate. 
Highland mountains, but rare. — a. Craig-challeach ; Braigh- 
riacli ; Clova mountains. — /3. Clova mountains (July, 1824). y. 
Craig-challeach.. — 8. Clova mountains. Ij • 6. — We do not find 
catkins on any of our Scotch specimens, and therefore cannot be quite 
certain that this portion of the above character applies to them. The , 
figure in E. B. is from cultivated specimens ; Dr. Stuart’s plant from 
Glencoe, referred to there, belongs to S. procumbens ; while Mr. Dick- 
son’s was probably the same as our own, and from the Breadalbane 
mountains. Of our var. S. we have only seen a single specimen ; 
some of its leaves are 14 inch long and only 14 inch broad; they 
are hairy, but shining when the hairs are rubbed off. 
35. S. procumbens Forbes ( smooth-leaved, alpine W.) ; leaves 
oval (rarely acute) obscurely serrate shining quite glabrous 
not black when dried, catkins elongate, style cloven to the 
middle (or below it) as long as the stigmas. Sal. Wuh. t. 61 : 
E.B.S. t. 2753. S. retusa 1 With. Bat. Arr. t. 31. S. kevis 
Brit. FI. ed. 1, p. 432. 
Highlands of Scotland. Glencoe. Breadalbane mountains, 1801. 
Tj. 6. — A low procumbent shrub, bearing a considerable resem- 
blance to the last, but distinct, if our description of its catkins applies 
to British specimens. It was originally communicated to Withering 
“ by Mr. Griffith, to whom Mr. Townson sent roots from Scotland 
under the name of retusa,” and first noticed in one of the earlv editions 
of his work: it is also inserted in Hull’s Brit. Flora in 1799. Mr. 
Winch found it in 1801, but he retained no notes of the precise 
locality, and it has not been rediscovered. Where Dr. Stuart met 
with it in Glencoe we do not know. The catkins are in maturity 
1 S. retusa L. is a prostrate glabrous shrub, with veiny obovate-elliptical or cu- 
neate-oblong not glaucous leaves, glabrous ovate shortly stalked ovaries, the stalks 
longer or shorter than the nectary in the same catkin, and catkins usually few- 
flowered and similar to those of .S’, herbacea. Fries states that beautiful specimens 
of the var. scrpyllifolia , collected by Mr. Winch in Breadalbane, are preserved in 
Hornemann’s herbarium. This must be a mistake: Mr. Winch's S. retusa is that 
of V\ ithering or S. procumbens Forbes, and is widely different from the true one, 
which is not, we believe, a northern species, and is considerably unlike any either 
of the present or last group. 
