SYMPHORICARPUS 563 



peduncled inflorescence." It is cultivated in the Arnold Arboretum, 

 whence it was introduced to this country in 1912. 



S. MOLLIS, Nuttall. 

 (S. ciliatus, Nuttall. ) 



A low or prostrate shrub; young shoots covered with soft down. Leaves 

 roundish to oval, sometimes shallowly lobed, | to i in. long, velvety and 

 grey with down, especially beneath. Flowers few and small, produced singly 

 or in short clusters at and near the end of the twigs ; corolla widely bell- 

 shaped, about in. long and broad, pinkish white, enclosing the smooth style. 

 Fruit white, globose, about in. wide. 



Native of California northward on the Pacific coast region to British 

 Columbia; distinct and interesting for its decumbent habit and densely 

 downy leaves. 



S. OCCIDENTALS, Hooker. WOLFBERRY. 



A deciduous shrub up to 6 ft. high. Leaves oval or oblong, stout, up to 

 2 ins. or more long, smooth or more or less downy beneath/ Flowers in 

 dense spikes or racemes, both in the leaf-axils near the end of the shoot and 

 at the end itself. Corolla open funnel-shaped, deeply five-lobed, densely 

 hairy inside, \ in. long, pinkish; style and stamens slightly protruded, the 

 former smooth. Fruit dullish white, globose, about \ in. wide. 



Native of N. America from Oregon eastwards to Michigan. It has been 

 confused with S. racemosus, but is an inferior shrub with smaller, duller 

 fruits; it differs also in the deeper-lobed corolla and in the protruded style 

 and stamens. Of little garden value. 



S. ORBICULATUS, Moench. CORAL BERRY. 



(S. vulgaris, Michaux.~) 



A deciduous shrub, 3 to 7 ft. high, of dense, bushy habit; branches thin, 

 densely leafy, spreading, very downy. Leaves oval or ovate, with a rounded 

 base, \ to \\ ins. long, j to f in. wide; dark dull green above, hairy and 

 somewhat glaucous beneath; stalk ^ in. long. Flowers produced in August 

 and September in short, dense clusters in all the leaf-axils from the lower 

 side of the twigs. Corolla bell-shaped, \ in. long, dull white, the style hairy. 

 Berries purplish red, between egg-shaped and globose, \ in. long. 



Native of the eastern United States; introduced in 1730. A neat bush 

 with the leaves arranged in opposite rows on the branches, but with little 

 beauty of flower. The fruits are pretty, and when freely borne make the 

 shrub extremely ornamental in autumn and winter, but it does not bear fruit 

 so freely in this country as in its native one, except after a hot summer like 

 that of 1911. 



Var. VARIEGATUS. Leaves smaller than in the type, bordered unevenly 

 with yellow. A good variegated shrub. 



S. orbiculatus differs from all the rest of the specie^ here mentioned in 

 having a downy style and red berries. These characters and the long array 

 of short flower-spikes beneath the branches make it the most distinct of the 

 cultivated members of this genus. 



S. OREOPHILUS, A. Gray. 



A deciduous shrub, 2 to 3 ft. high, of spreading habit, with either smooth 

 or downy young shoots and leaves, the latter narrowly to broadly oval, i 



