CORONILLA. 
Corema album, a white-fruited version of Empetrum, from 
Portugal. 
Coreopsis.—The only member of the family for entrance here is 
C. rosea, a really beautiful little American species for the bog, or some 
cool place in moist and gritty soil, where it forms a small forest-like 
clump of aspiring fine stems some 6 or 8 inches high, filmy with the 
most delicate foliage, and tipped with a quantity of bright clear rose- 
pink Marguerites all through the later summer. (Seed and division.) 
Coris monspeliensis is a very pretty but almost biennial and 
most improbable-looking cousin of Primula, much more like a Thyme 
in look and habit. It likes to grow in light well-drained soil, in a sunny 
position, where it forms a small bush of some 5 inches, its branches set 
with abundant narrow blunt leaves, and ending in summer with a 
fuzz of pinky-violet flowers with the lobes of the corollas so deeply 
cleft as to give quite a fluffy effect. The only other species, C. 
hispanica, differs in having the head elongated into a spike, and 
rather more regular, with flowers of paler pink, and whitish twigs. 
Cornus.—The only dogwoods to be troubled with are C. suecica, a 
rather rare native, a rambling plant in heathy soil, sending up a 6 inch 
stem, set with veined oval-pointed leaves and ending in a cluster 
of flowers microscopically minute, but (for the delusion of insects) 
enclosed in four great spreading white bracts that look exactly like 
white petals, and give the whole the aspect of quite a striking pretty 
flower ; and the yet more valuable American C. canadensis, which is 
much larger and heartier and freer and more beautiful, forming wide 
mats and masses, awave in summer beneath their large and brilliant 
“blossoms,” each open and erect at the top of a leafy 6-inch stalk. 
This likes a cooler place, and looks its best on the shadier side of the 
rock-work, where it forms ramping wide colonies quickly, and grows 
too heartily to admit of company. 
Coronilla, a group of pea-flowered bushes or bushlings akin to 
Genista, and usually coming from regions of the South, too warm and 
dry to bear our climate well. Though many are offered, therefore, 
few should be chosen. Leaving out of count the larger shrubs, such 
as C. Emerus, the best species are: C. glauca, from limestone crevices 
of Spain, an 18-inch bush of very glaucous blue foliage, with packed 
rounded heads of large fragrant golden flowers on stems of 6 inches 
or a foot; C. cappadocica (also wrongly called C. iberica), a fine 
sight all through the summer, of golden flower-heads on a glaucous 
plant of some 6 inches high; C. montana (C. coronata), taller, with 
smaller blooms of feebler tone, but with a most attractive variety 
called minor, which forms neat round humps of not more than 10 
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