. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. SALICAOEAE (willow FAMILY) nh 657. S. herbacea. (Eu.) Fig. 657. *+ -w- Prostrate or creeping and, matted alpine shrubs. 17. S. Uva-ursi Pursh. â Leaves elliptical and pointed, or obovate and obtuse, cm. long, tapering at base, slightly toothed, strongly veined, smooth and shining above, pale and rather glaucous beneath ; aments home on slender lateral leafy peduncles, thick-cylindric, the fertile lengthening, to 2 or 3 cm. and
. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. SALICAOEAE (willow FAMILY) nh 657. S. herbacea. (Eu.) Fig. 657. *+ -w- Prostrate or creeping and, matted alpine shrubs. 17. S. Uva-ursi Pursh. â Leaves elliptical and pointed, or obovate and obtuse, cm. long, tapering at base, slightly toothed, strongly veined, smooth and shining above, pale and rather glaucous beneath ; aments home on slender lateral leafy peduncles, thick-cylindric, the fertile lengthening, to 2 or 3 cm. and becoming narrowly cylindric, densely flowered above, often loose below ; scales obovate, rose- red at the tip, covered with long silky hairs ; stamen 1 (rarely 2); capsule ovoid-conical, brownish at maturity; pedicel scarcely exceeding the gland ; style distinct. â Lab. to Alaska, s. to alpine summits of n. N. E. and N. Y.âClosely prostrate, spreading from a stout central root over an area 3-9 dm. broad. Eio. 656. 18. S. herb&cea L. Leaves roundish oval, heart-shaped, obtuse or retuse, 1-3 cm. long, serrate, smooth and shining, reticulately veined ; aments terminating 2-leaved branchlets, small, ovoid, ^10-flowered ; scales concave, obovate, obtuse, glabrous or slightly pubescont; capsule subsessile. âArctic Am., s. to alpine regions of Mt. Katahdin, Me., and Mt. Washington, N. H.âA very small herb-like species, the half-underground stems creeping and rooting in moss or humus, the branches seldom rising dm. from the ground. 1- â¢>- Capsule pubescent. ** Fruiting pedicel 3-6 times the length of the gland; style short or none (elon. gate in no. 25). = Mature leaves glabrous or glabrate beneath, or at most with a few scattered hairs. {Extreme furms ofS. rostrata may be looked for here.) a. Aments sessile on the old wood, naked at base, appearing before the leaves; scales dark red, brown, or blackish; mature capsule 1-12 mm. long. 19. S. discolor Muhl. (Glaucous
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