. Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum; or, The trees and shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, hardy and half-hardy, pictorially and botanically delineated, and scientifically and popularly described; with their propagation, culture, management, and uses in the arts, in useful and ornamental plantations, and in landscape-gardening; preceded by a historical and geographical outline of the trees and shrubs of temperate climates throughout the world . being sessile, anddensely tomentose. There are plants at Henfield. Group XX. Myrtilloides Borrer. Sma// Bilhcrry-likc Shrubs, not Natives of Brita
. Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum; or, The trees and shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, hardy and half-hardy, pictorially and botanically delineated, and scientifically and popularly described; with their propagation, culture, management, and uses in the arts, in useful and ornamental plantations, and in landscape-gardening; preceded by a historical and geographical outline of the trees and shrubs of temperate climates throughout the world . being sessile, anddensely tomentose. There are plants at Henfield. Group XX. Myrtilloides Borrer. Sma// Bilhcrry-likc Shrubs, not Natives of Britain. This group consists ofexotlc kinds, and, therefore, does not appear in ; and, consequently,we cannot quote characteristics thence. In S. myrtilloides Z,., we believe that the epithet wasmeant to express a likeness in the foliage to that of /accinium Myrtillus X.; and we suppose thatthis likeness appertains to each of the kinds of which Mr. Borrer has constituted his group 130. S. MYRTILLOI^DES L. The Myrtillus-like, or Bilbcrry-leavcd, Willow. Wahl. Fl. Identification. Lin. Sp. PI., 1446.; Fl. Lapp., ed. 2., 295.; Smith in Reess Cyclo., Lapp.,p. 267. ; Koch Comm., p. S. elegans Bcssrr En. PI. Volhyn., p. 77. {Koch.)the Sexes. The female is described in Jieess Cyclo., and the male partly so. The female is noticed Lin. FL Lapp., ed. 2.,t. 8. f. i. *.; and onr fig. 1343. 1343. Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves very various In form, ovate, at the base, oblong, or lanceolate; entire, opaque,glabrous; veins appearing reticulated beneath. Stipulesnaif-ovate. Fruit-bearing catkin (? catkin of the female inany state) borne on a leafy twiglet. Bracteas (scales) gla-brous or ciliated. Ca]>sules (?or rather ovaries) ovate-lan-ceolate, glabrous, upon a stalk more than four times as longas the gland. Style short. Stigmas ovate, notched. (Koch.)The flowers of the female are disposed in lax cylindricalcatkins. {Smith i
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