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on her operations on the leaves of the Rose-tree, and may be watched by those who 
care to observe her curious ingenuity. 
An old proverb says, “ Years of store of haws and hips do commonly portend 
cold winters ;” but we fail to trace any connection between the two. 
Sus-Orprer ITI].—POMIFERA. 
Trees or shrubs, with simple or more rarely pinnate leaves. 
Stipules free, persistent only on the barren shoots, deciduous on the 
flowering ones. Calyx superior (adhering to the ovary), persistent, 
the segments shrivelling. Petals white, pink, or red. Stamens 
indefinite. Carpels adhering to the walls of the calyx-tube and 
~ usually cohering with each other, 5 in number or fewer by abortion. 
Ovules 2, rarely more, in each carpel. Styles terminal. Fruit a 
pome, consisting of a fleshy exterior portion, containing a parchment- 
like or woody core, divided into as many cells as there are carpels, 
each cell commonly containing 2 seeds. 
GENUS XT7TI—COTONE ASTER. “ Wedikus,” Lindley. 
Calyx-tube turbinate, adhering to the ovary; limb superior, 
5-toothed. Petals 5, inserted in the throat of the calyx, ovate, 
erect. Stamens numerous, inserted in the throat of the calyx, and 
equalling its limb. Carpels 2 to 5, adhering to the tube of the 
calyx, but cohering together, each carpel with 2 erect collateral 
ovules. Styles 2to5. Fruit fleshy, containing 2 to 5 bony stones 
or pyrenes adhering to the tube of the calyx, but projecting above 
the pulp and separate for about one-third of their length from the 
apex downwards. 
Shrubs with alternate simple entire leaves, woolly below. 
Flowers small, white or pink, in spreading lateral corymbose cymes. 
Bracts subulate, deciduous. Petals small, persistent. 
_. This genus of plants is named from the similarity of its foliage to the Cotonewm 
(quince-tree). 
SPECIES I—COTONEASTER VULGARIS. Lindley. 
Puate CCCCLXXVII. 
Mespilus Cotoneaster, Linn. Sp. Plant. p. 686. 
Leaves roundish ovate, apiculate, with a whitish felt beneath 
and on the footstalks. Pedicels slightly downy. Calyx glabrous, 
with the edges of the teeth woolly. Fruit pendulous, red. 
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