82 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



40139 to 40201— Continued. 



1900. It flowers in June, and the fruit is in full color In September 

 and October; it is then one of the most effective of cotoneasters. 

 The habit is singularly graceful, the long whiplike shoots spreading 

 outward and downward in every direction. The name applanata 

 refers to the distichous arrangement of the branches of young plants, 

 which gives them the appearance of a well-trained tree." (W. J. 

 Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 1, p. J,0S, 

 under C. applanata.) 



40172. Cotoneaster acutifolia viixosula Rehd. and Wilson. 



"A deciduous shrub of bushy habit, 5 to 7 feet high, branches often 

 pendulous ; young twigs downy. Leaves pointed, ovate-lanceolate to 

 oval, 1 to 24 inches long, half as wide; dull green, and with scat- 

 tered hairs above, paler and hairy beneath, especially when young; 

 veins in five or six pairs; stalk one-twelfth to one-eighth inch long. 

 Flowers white, three or more together in corymbs; stalks and calyx 

 woolly, lobes of calyx triangular. Fruit reddish at first, finally 

 black, one-third inch in diameter, smooth. Native of northern and 

 western China. This is not one of the handsomest of cotoneasters and 

 is, perhaps, a poor form of C. lucida. There has been much con- 

 fusion between the two, owing to C. lucida also having been called 

 C. acutifolia, but from that species the present one is distinguished 

 by its dull green, not shining, more hairy leaves, and its woolly calyx 

 and flower stalks. Yar. villosula has young shoots clothed with yel- 

 lowish gray loose hairs, becoming smooth and purplish brown the 

 second year. Leaves 14 to 4* inches long, one-half to 2\ inches wide, 

 larger and more drawn out at the apex than in the type. Petals 

 rose-tinted white. Fruit roundish pear shaped, two-fifths inch long, 

 woolly, ultimately shining black. Native of western Hupeh ; intro- 

 duced by Wilson in 1900. A very vigorous shrub." (IT. J. Bean, 

 Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 1, p. '/05.) 



40173. Cotoneaster affinis Lindley. 



" The identity of this species is somewhat confused, but what ia 

 usually grown under the name is an ally of C. bacillaris and C. 

 frigida. It has the woolly young leaves, young wood, and flower 

 stalks of the latter, but the purplish brown fruit of C. bacillaris. 

 It is a shrub 10 to 15 feet high and deciduous. Leaves oval, acute, 

 or bluntish at the apex, up to 34 inches long. Native of the Hima- 

 layas ; introduced in 1S2S." (IV 7 . J. Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy in 

 the British Isles, vol. 1, p. J/06.) 



40174. Cotoneaster amoena Wilson. 



"A densely branched, stiff-habited evergreen bush of spreading 

 habit, 3 to 5 feet high ; young shoots slender but rigid, felted with 

 gray wool. Leaves oval or ovate, tapered about equally to both 

 ends, terminated by a line point; one-third to three-fourths inch 

 long, one-fourth to two-fifths inch wide; glossy green and with loose 

 hairs above, clothed beneath with a thick, grayish wool ; veins in 2 

 to 4 pairs; stalks one-twelfth to one-eighth inch long. Flowers 

 white, one-fifth inch wide, borne in G to 10 flowered corymbs; petals 

 roundish; stamens 20; calyx woolly, with triangular-ovate teeth. 

 Fruit bright red, roundish obovoid, broadest above the middle, 

 one-fourth inch long, packed in umbellike clusters at the eud of 



