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Exsiccata : — E. F. et W. R. Linton, 49, 75 ; 107 {fide Enander) as 5 . herbacea x nigricans ; 109 ( fide 
Enander) as S. herbacea y phylicifolia \ 112 ( fide Enander) as S. herbacea x reticulata ? ; herb. Marshall, 2782, 
2785, 2788, 2790, 2791, 2792. 
Dwarf undershrubs or undershrubs, up to nearly 1 m. high, or prostrate. Young branches 
often rather stout at maturity, and often hairy. Stipules usually caducous, at least on the normal 
leaves, often hairy at least when young. Petioles up to about 4 mm. long. Laminae elliptical 
to oval or ovate, margin more or less minutely denticulate or crenulate, often glandularly so at 
least when young, up to about 2 cm. long and i'5 broad, more or less hairy when young, 
ultimately subglabrous or even glabrous at least on the upper surface, often rather strongly 
reticulated. Catkins usually lateral, short {ca. i'5 cm.), on short leafy peduncles; May. Bracts 
subdiscolorous, often brownish towards the summit, often with white hairs. Nectaries usually rather 
long, sometimes double. Style rather long. Stigmas rather thick, entire or bifid. Capsules sub- 
sessile or stalked, glabrous or pubescent often with white hairs; June. 
The stamens of the plant figured (plate 38 (a)) may be, as is not infrequently the case in hybrid plants, monstrous ; but 
Mr Marshall, who sent the plant to be drawn, wrote that the drawing was correct. 
On a note attached to a specimen of this in herb. Rev. E. F. Linton (no. 155), it is said that the Rev. W. R. Linton 
suggested the specimen might be a hybrid of 6". spuria and S. herbacea. 
Rare ; Perthshire, Forfarshire, Aberdeenshire. 
Northern Scandinavia. 
(C) x S. eugenes Linton in Journ. Bot. xxx, 364 (1892); S', myrsinites x reticulata E. F. et W. R. Linton 
in Journ. Bot., loc. cit.\ S. herbacea x lapponum x myrsinites? Linton in Lond. Cat. Brit. Plants ed. 9, 48 (1895) 
nomen [cf. S. herbacea x lapponum x myrsinites Floderus in Bill. Sv. Vet. Akad. Handl. xvii, iii, i, 44 (1891)]. 
Exsiccata : — E. F. et W. R. Linton, 106, as S. eugenes (Enander suggests that this is S. herbacea x lapponum)', 
herb. Marshall, 2793. 
Stem prostrate. Young branches usually ascending, pubescent at first. Laminae ovate, some- 
times cordate at the base, more or less serrate or crenate-serrate, ultimately glabrous above with 
veins deeply impressed, with long silk-like hairs underneath when young, markedly reticulate 
underneath, later ones subglaucous. Catkins about i‘2 cm. long on pubescent peduncles about 
the same length. Nectaries double. Bracts very large, lower ones pale brown and concolorous, 
upper ones darker brown above. Ovaries subsessile to sessile. Styles very long, red. Stigmas 
large, bifid. 
Messrs Linton (loc. cit.) at first believed “from the creeping habit” of their plant “that 5 . herbacea was present” in its 
composition: “the fruit characters, however, in due time quite upset this view, not to mention the divergence in the 
leaf.” 
Glen Fiagh, Forfarshire. Not recorded elsewhere. 
(D) x S. grahami White in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxvii, 437 (1890)!; S. grahami 1 [Borrer ined.] Baker in Journ. 
Bot. v, 157 (1867)!; S. herbacea x phylicijolia [A] x S. grahami A. et G. Camus ClassiJ. Saul, ii, 179 (1905). 
leones: — Baker in Journ. Bot. v, t. 66 (1867) as S. grahami ; Syme Eng. Bot. viii, t. 1377 (1868) as N. 
grahami ! 
Camb. Brit. FI. ii. Plate 38, b. (a) Shoots with pistillate catkins. ( b ) Barren shoot. ( c ) Pistillate flower. 
(d) Pistillate flowers (enlarged). ( e ) Leaf, upper surface. (/) Leaf, lower surface. Cambridge Botanic Garden 
(R. I. L.). 
Exsiccata: — Leefe, iii, 54, as N. grahami ; E. F. et W. R. Linton, 25 (hort.), as 5 . grahami. 
Undershrub. Aerial branches trailing, young ones covered with appressed grey silky hairs. 
Stipules caducous. Petioles short, covered with silky hairs at least when young. Laminae broadly 
elliptical or oblong-elliptical, about 1 ’8 cm. long and 1 ‘o broad when in flower ; of the mature 
summer-shoots larger, rounded at the base and at the apex, often with a short oblique mucro- 
nation at the apex, glabrous and shining above, thinly covered with appressed silky hairs underneath, 
veins prominent underneath. Catkins from lateral buds, on leafy peduncles about as long as or 
a little longer than the catkins, about i - 5 cm. long at maturity; May. Bracts ciliate and some- 
what hairy at the back. Ovaries glabrous, stalked. Style long. Stigmas bifid, large; June. 
Staminate plants unknown. 
1 After Dr Robert Graham (1786-1845), Professor of Botany at the Universities of Glasgow (1813) and of Edinburgh 
(1818). 
