644 AMYGDALACEAE 
das per triangular, glabrous: corolla 7-10 mm. broad: fruit globose, 
, 4-6 mm. thick: nutlets 3-5.—Along streams and in rich moist soil, Coastal 
Plain and "m provinees, Fla. to Tex. and Va. 
30. C. Marshallii Bggleston. A shrub or small ie often 6 m. tall, ns 
. lon 
smooth, gray bark: leaf-blades esp ovate to orbieular, 1-4 em. long, pin 
nately and deeply * -lobed, the lobes i Rie a ‘when yo ung: sepa 25 
lanceolate, Mr glandular-serrate; corolla broad: fruit oblong 
2 RC 4 to ds . long, searlet: nutlets ne Te. apiifolia Michx.]—(P 
ARS- 
PARSLEY-LEAVED THORN. Dum —In low places along swamps and streams, 
Coastal J Plain, Fla. to Texas and Va. 
31. C. uniflora e A sie : small tree (?), with s brown bark: 
leaf-blades obovate oblong-cuneiform to cuneate, 1—4 cm. long, crenate or 
crenate-serrate, often shallowly lobed, pubescent beneath, a brate or c 
above: sepals lan RA. serrate to deeply d glandular: corolla pne 
broad: fruit globose to pyrifor m, 7-14 m ; Je ellow to red at maturi Tnm 
nutlets 3 or 4. [C. y cu d she. |— (Di doe ORN )—Piels durs flats, 
woods, MET pusand- eee Plain and adj. Doe. Ga. to N. Y. 
32. C. lacrimata Small. A small tree, sometimes 5 m. tall, with ashy-gray, 
scaly bark: leaf-blades cuneate-spatulate, 1-2.5 cm. long, "glabrous in age, 
dentate above the middle, glandular, rounded, truncate, or pointed: sepals 
small, entire or nearly so, SAIS. fruit g lobose Or nearly so, yellow or 
orange pa reddish: nutlets 3-5.—Stream-banks and sandy woods W Fla. 
33. C. deri a aay (L. f.) Medic. A tree, often 10 m. tall, with grayish or 
brown sealy bark: leaf-blades conspieuously ae deltoid to broadly ovate, 
serrate, often ineisely 3—7-lobed, green and glabrous, 2~7.5 em. long: sepals 
deltoid, entire: corolla 8-12 mm. "br oad: fruit Iph ven uin small, scarlet: 
nutlets usually 5. [C. cordata (Mill) Ait.]—(HEDGE-THORN. ED-HAW. 
WASHINGTON-THORN.)—-Stream-banks, woods, thickets, and fence-rows, various 
provinces, Ga. to Ark. and. N. J.—Native southward, naturalized N. 
7. COTONEASTER Medic. Shrubs. Leaf-blades simple, toothed or en- 
tire. Cymes cluster-like. Pomes small, the carpels becoming bony.—About 
50 species, natives of the Old World. 
1. C. Pyracantha (L.) Spach. Evergree 
shrub with slender a. leaf-blades al 
slightly oblanceola 2-5 em. long, ob- 
tuse, crenulate: es As hypanthium 
white-woolly : eee ovate: petals p 
out 3 mm. long: pomes about 4 m 
scarlet,  bitter.—( FIRETHORN. T- 
)—Thiekets and cult. grounds 
various provinees, Ala Tenn. an a 
at. sia, and cult.—Spr.—Man 
species of Cotoneaster are in cultivation. 
They are first cl ornamentals, not only 
with attractive foliage, but they are also 
showy in flower and in fruit. Many of those used in landscape work are of 
Asiatic origin. 
Faminy 15. AMYGDALACEAE — PLUM FAMILY 
Shrubs or trees, commonly with prussie acid in the tissues. Leaves 
alternate, with free, often early deciduous stipules: blades simple, mostly 
