COTONEASTER, ETC. 



289 



[Forms of Salix repens with small broad entire leaves 

 may also come here. See p. 243. 



Salix Caprea, S. aurita and the var. 8. cinerea some- 

 times have the leaves entire, and may then be placed here. 

 See pp. 255, 257.] 



Leaves not remarkably rugose. 

 f~l Leaves glabrous above. 



Cotoneaster vulgaris, Lindl. Cotoneaster (Fig. 110). 

 Rare dwarf shrub, with red-brown twigs pubescent at the 

 tips. Leaves sub-sessile, 2 5 cm. long (2 6 cm. x 12 

 30 mm.), leathery, ovate, broadly elliptic-oblong or sub- 

 orbicular ; obtuse, acute, or even slightly 

 retuse or mucronate, entire, green and 

 nearly glabrous above, grey-tomentose 

 or densely pubescent beneath. Stipules 

 minute, scarious, deciduous ; petiole very 

 short, 2 5 mm., tomentose. Autumn 

 leaves brown. 



Venation reticulate. The weak 

 secondaries start at about equal angles 

 and as if pinnate, but soon break up, 

 and loop within the margin, without 

 distinct secondary or superposed loops : 

 loops strongly convex to the margin, 

 but may run near it and almost form an infra-marginal 

 vein. Mesh work abundant. The secondaries in mid-leaf 

 about J the length of the midrib apart, more evidently or 

 much branched. 



/Z7/Z7 Leaves silky above, with a golden 

 shimmer. 



Salix lanata. Woolly Willow. Very rare dwarf alpine 

 creeper. Leaves broad obovate to ovate, to more or less 

 cordate; or oblong-lanceolate, about 3 x T6 cm. (3 10 

 w. n. 19 



Fig. 110. Cotone- 

 aster, Cotoneaster 

 vulgaris, p. 289 

 (D). 



