CHAP. XLII. ROSA CEH. COTONEA‘STER. 873 
ing leaves more decidedly round: microphflla is better; but U‘va-irsi, 
we think, would be best, both because it resembles Arctostaphylos U'va-trsi 
in appearance and habit, and because, though a native of Asia, it is equally 
hardy with that plant. It might be grafted standard high in every haw- 
thorn hedge in the north of Scotland. 
#9. C.(R.) MicRopHY’LLA Wall. The small-leaved Cotoneaster. 
Identification. Wall. ex Lindl. Bot. Reg., t. 1114.; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 604. 
Engravings. Bot. Reg., t. 1114. ; and our jig. 625. 
Spec. Char., Sc. Leaves oblong, obtuse, pubescent 
beneath, evergreen. Peduncles usually 1-flowered. 
(Don’s Miil., ii. p.604.) Flowers white, and pro- 
duced in May and June. Introduced in 1824. Not- 
withstanding the high authority of Dr. Lindley, we 
cannot help considering this only a variety of the 
preceding species. It is exceedingly hardy, and 
forms a fine plant on rockwork, or on a lawn, where 
it has room to extend itself. “ Its deep glossy fo- 
liage, which no cold will impair, is, when the plant 
is in blossom, strewed with snow-white flowers, which, reposing on a rich 
couch of green, have so brilliant an appearance, that a poet would compare 
them to diamonds lying on a bed of emeralds.” (Lindl.) “ It is deserving of 
notice, that the peculiar flavour, which, in Rosacez, is attributed to the pre- 
sence of prussic acid, is so strong in this plant, that, before flowering, it would 
be taken for a Primus; a remarkable fact in a tribe of plants which are re- 
puted to possess, exclusively, malic instead of prussic acid.” (Idem.) A 
plant of C. microphylla, at High Clere, of about 10 years growth, was, in 
1835, 6 ft. high, and formed a dense bush, covering a space 21 ft. in dia- 
meter. Its branches are strong and rigid; its foliage of an intense green, 
lucid, with scarcely any veins, and of leathery texture; and it is never 
without a profusion of scarlet berries. Grafted standard high on the thorn, 
or any of its congeners, this shrub forms a singular and beautiful evergreen 
drooping tree: or it will cover a naked wall nearly as rapidly as ivy; and it 
possesses a decided advantage over that plant, and particularly over the 
variety called the giant ivy, in its shoots, which may be prevented from extend- 
ing many inches from the face of the wall, and, consequently, being not likely 
to injure the plants growing near it. Were the practice of training trees 
and shrubs in architectural or sculptural shapes again to come into fashion, 
there are few plants better adapted for the purpose than this and the pre- 
ceding sort of Cotoneaster. To some, it may appear in bad taste to revive 
the idea of verdant sculptures; but such is the ardent desire of the human 
mind for novelty, that we have no doubt clipped trees and shrubs _ will, at 
no distant period, be occasionally reintroduced in gardens. The contrast 
produced by beauties of this kind, in the midst of a profusion of natural and 
natural-like scenery, is delightful. 

# 10. C. (R.) BuxiFoO‘LIA Wall, The Box-leaved Cotoneaster. 
Identification. Wall. ex Lindl. Bot. Reg., t. 1229. ; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 604. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves ovate, woolly beneath, evergreen. Peduncles 3- 
flowered, woolly. Flowers white. (Don’s Mill. ii. p. 604.) A native of 
Neelgherry; introduced in 1824; and apparently a variety of C. rotun- 
difolia, from which it differs in having the peduncles 2 and 3-flowered, 
but scarcely in any thing else. 
App. i. Species of Cotonedster not yet introduced. 
C. bacillaris Wall. ined. Lindl. in Bot. Reg., t. 1229., has obovate leaves and many-flowered cymes. 
It is a native of Kamaon. 
C. obtiisa Wall. ined. Lindl, in Bot. Reg., t. 1229., is anative of the mountains of Nepal and 
Kamaon, with many-flowered, crowded, glabrous cymes. 
As there is every probability that all the cotoneasters, even though natives of Asia, are quite 
hardy, the introduction of new species or varieties is ardently to be desired by every lover of ligneous 
plants. 
