406 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



The genus, and C. frigida in particular, is not unlike the quince in its leaves. (Lindley in Sot 

 Reg.t. 1187. and 1229.) 



Gen. Char. Flowers polygamous from abortion. Calyx turbinate, bluntly 

 5-toothed. Petals sho'rt, erect. Stamens length of the teeth of the calyx. 

 Styles glabrous, shorter than the stamens. Carpels 2 3, parietal, biovu- 

 late, enclosed in the calyx. (Don's Mill.) 



Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate or exstipulate, deciduous or evergreen ; 

 generally woolly beneath. Flowers in corymbs, lateral, spreading, furnished 

 with deciduous subulate bracteas. Petals small, permanent. Shrubs or low 

 trees. Natives of Europe, America, and Asia. 



The species are very desirable garden shrubs or low trees, from the 

 beauty of their foliage, their flowers, and their fruit ; the fruit of C. frigida 

 and C. aff inis, in particular, being produced in great abundance, and being of 

 an intense scarlet colour, have a very splendid appearance, and remain on 

 the trees the greater part of the winter. The cotoneasters are all readily 

 propagated by seeds, cuttings, layers, or grafting on C. vulgaris, on the com- 

 mon quince, or on the hawthorn. Though the greater part of the species are 

 natives of Asia, yet in Britain they are found to be as hardy as if they were 

 indigenous to the North of Europe, more especially those of them that are 

 true evergreens. Not one of them was killed by the winter of 1837-8 in the 

 Hort. Soc. Garden. 



i. Leaves deciduous. Shrubs. 

 & 1. C. VULGA'RIS Lindl. The common Cotoneaster. 



Identification. Lindl. in Lin. Soc. Trans., 13. p. 101. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 632. ; 



Don's Mill., 2. p. 603. 

 Synonymes. Mespilus Cotoneaster Lin. Sp. 686., (Ed. Fl. Dan. t. 112. ; 



Nt flier cotonneux, Ft: ; Quitten-Mispel, Ger. ; Sakiagnolo, Ital. 

 Engravings. (Ed. Fl. Dan., t.U2. ; Eng. Bot. Suppl., t. 2713. ; and our 

 Jig. 737. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves ovate, rounded at the base. 

 Peduncles and calyxes glabrous. (Dec. Prod.) A de- 

 ciduous shrub. Europe and Siberia, on the sunny parts 

 of subalpine hills. Height 2 ft. to 3 ft. in a wild state ; 

 in cultivation 4ft. to 5ft. Cultivated in 1656. Flowers 

 white, slightly tinged with pink ; April and May. Fruit 

 red or black ; ripe in July and August. 737> c . 



Varieties. The following three forms of this species are to be met with, both 

 in a wild state, and in gardens : 



& C. v. \erythrocarpa Led. Fl. Alt. ii. p. 219. has the fruit red when 



ripe. 

 & C. v. 2 melanocarpa Led., Tlfespilus Cotoneaster Pall. FL Ross. p. 30. 



t. 14., M. melanocarpa Fisch., C. melanocarpa Lod. Cat., has the 



fruit black when ripe. 

 & C. v. 3 depressa Fries Nov. Suec. p. 9., Dec. Prod. ii. p. 632., is rather 



spiny, with lanceolate acutish leaves, and fruit i^ A 



including 4 carpels. It is a native of the rocks of 



Sweden near Warberg. 



& 2. C. (v.) TOMENTO'SA Lindl. The tomentose, or woolly, 

 Cotoneaster. 



Identification. Lindl. in Lin. Soc. Trans.. 13. p. 101.: Dec. Prod 2 D 



632.; Don's Mill., 2. p. 603. 

 Synonymes. J/espilus tomentbsa Willd. Sp. 2. p. 1012., not Lam. ; M. erio- 



c&rpa Dec. Fl. Ft: Synops. and Suppl. No. 3691. 

 Engraving. Our fig. 738. from a specimen in the British Museum. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves elliptical, obtuse at both ends. 

 Peduncles and calyxes woolly. (Dec. Prod.) A decidu- 

 ous shrub, like the preceding species, of which it appears 

 to us to be only a variety, found wild on the rocks 



