234 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
On the cliffs at the Great Ormes Head, Carnarvonshire. 
England. Perennial. Shrub. 
A small much-branched shrub, without spines ; young branches 
woolly. Leaves shortly stalked, # to 2 inches long, though rarely 
exceeding 1 inch in the British specimens I have seen, rounded at 
the apex, except on the young shoots, where they are sub-acute. 
Stipules lanceolate, scarious, red, woolly at the edges. Flowers 
solitary or in pairs, in the axils of the leaves from the wood of the 
preceding year. Peduncles a little longer than the calyx, at first 
erect, then curved. Bracts minute, reddish, woolly at the margins. 
Flowers % inch across, pink. Calyx turbinate, with short rounded 
teeth, which have a woolly fringe. Petals suborbicular-ovate, not 
much exceeding the calyx-teeth. Styles usually 3. Fruit 4 inch 
across, blood-red, sub-globular, shining. Leaves somewhat leathery, 
deep-green above, whitish beneath. 
Common Cotoneaster. 
French, Cotonnier Commun. German, Gemeine Zwergmispel. 
This shrub has been called the dwarf quince-leaved Medlar. . The roots run very 
deep into the earth, and it was recommended by Linnzeus for making low hedges in 
dry broken ground ; but Hooker states that it is liable to be browsed by sheep. 
GENUS XIV—MESPILUS. Lindley. 
Calyx-tube bell-shaped, adhering to the ovary; limb superior, 
with 5 lanceolate somewhat foliaceous segments. Petals 5, inserted 
in the throat of the calyx, sub-orbicular, spreading. Stamens 
numerous, inserted in the throat of the calyx, and shorter than its 
segments. Ovary inferior, 5-celled, each cell containing 2 erect 
collateral ovules. Styles 5, distinct and glabrous. Fruit roundish- 
turbinate, crowned by the calyx-segments which retain their form, 
open at the apex, where there is a depressed shallow cavity as wide 
as any part of the fruit and marked with 5 radiating depressed 
lines indicating the partitions between the carpels, fleshy, containing 
5 bony stones or pyrenes immersed in the pulp and each containing 
a single seed. 
Small trees, generally spinous when wild, but becoming un- 
armed by cultivation, with simple lanceolate serrulate leaves, and 
large sub-solitary and sub-sessile white flowers, remarkable from 
the very long foliaceous calyx-segments, which exceed the petals. 
Bracts persistent. 
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