CHAP. cm.
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Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves orbicular, somewhat elliptical, obtuse, entire,coriaceous, with reticulated veins, nearly glabrous; glaucous beneath.Ovary sessile, downy. ( Smith E. F.) The young foliage is often floc-cose. (Sr. FL, ed. 2.) A native of England, and the highmountains in Wales and Scotland ; flowering from May toJuly. Koch has stated its European places of growth to beas follows : — Moist rocks, or other moist places, of thehighest mountains above the limit of perpetual snow, inPiedmont, Savoy, Switzerland, the Pyrenees, Germany ,
Carpathia, Transylvania, Britain, and Lapland . Hooker hasremarked (Sr. FL , ed. 2.) that he possesses 5. reticulata, ^obtained from Arclic America, and having long silky hairs 1323on both surfaces of the leaf. Mackay has not inserted the species inthe Flora Hibernica. Lightfoot, as quoted by Smith, has noted the kindof soil in which it occurs on many of the Scottish highland mountainsto be micaceous. “ Larger than S. herbacea, with stout, woody, procumbentstems and branches, either mantling the alpine rocks, or spreading on theground in large patches. Leaves 3 from each bud, on long slender foot-stalks, without stipules; alternate, nearly orbicular, or somewhat elliptical,1 in. broad, firm, coriaceous though deciduous, entire, with an occasionalnotch at the end; the upper surface wrinkled, of a deep shining green ;the under surface very glaucous or whitish, beautifully reticulated withabundance of prominent veins, now and then somewhat silky. Catkinssolitary at the end of the same branch, above the leaves; ” of a purplishred colour, as are the buds. The veins on the under surface of the leaf areof a purplish colour. (Linnceus.) This is a most remarkable species, totallydifferent from any other; and it ought not to be wanting in any collection.Smith has deemed it akin to S. herbacea. Koch has associated the two inthe same group. In its rounded wrinkled leaves, villous when young, inits buds, and in its branches, it bears much similarity to S. caprea, thoughit is widely different in its inflorescence. There are plants in the arboretumof Messrs. Loddiges, in the Fulham Nursery, and in the Goldworth Ar-boretum.
App. i. lieticulatce described, but not yet introduced.
S. vestlta Pursh FI. Araer. Sept., 2. p 610., Smith in Rees’s Cyclo., No. 76., differs from S.reticulata, in having the under side of its leaves clothed with long silky hairs. Pursh calls it a veryelegant species. It is a native of Labrador.
Group xiv. Glaucce Borrer.
Small, upright, with soft silky Leaves.
Stamens 2 to a flower, Ovary very downy, or silky, sessile. Plants smallshrubs, most of them upright; all, or most of them, remarkable for theirfoliage, which consists of leaves that are oblong-lanceolate, soft, hairy, silky,and, in most, white and cottony on the under surface. The kinds are veryclosely akin, each among the rest. (Hook. Br. FI., ed. 2., adapted.) OnlyS. glauca L., S. arenaria L., and S. Stuartidrca Smith, are associated togetherunder the above characteristics in Hook. Br. FL , ed. 2. Of the kindsbrought together below, as agreeing more or less in the quality of similarity,Mr. Borrer has indicated S. elseagnifolia Forbes (elseagnoides Schleicher'), S.glauca L., S. sericea Villars, S. Lapponum L., S. arenaria L., S. arenaria L.• var., S. ieucophylia Schleicher ; and S. Siuartiana Smith.