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pinkish ; April and May. 

 ing on all the winter. 



Fruit bright scarlet ; ripe in August, and remain- 



748. C. (r.) microphyila. 



A most desirable shrub for a small garden, for clothing a naked wall, cover- 

 ing rockwork, or grafting standard high, so as to form a pendent evergreen tree. 



a. 10. C. (r.) microphy'lla Wall. The small-leaved Coloneaster. 



Identification. Wall, ex Lindl. Bot. Reg., t. 1114. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 604. 

 Engravings. Bot. Keg., t. UH. ; and ouryig. 748. 



Spec. Char., S^c. Leaves oblong, obtuse, pubescent 

 beneath, evergreen. Peduncles usually 1-flowered. 

 (Don's Mill.) A prostrate evergreen shrub, closely 

 resembling the preceding species, and in our opinion 

 only a variety of it. Nepal. Height 2 ft. to 3 ft. 

 Introduced in 1824. Flowers white; May and June. 

 Berries bright scarlet ; ripe in August, and remaining 

 on all the winter. 



It is exceedingly hardy, and forms a fine plant on 

 rockwork, or on a lawn, where it has room to extend 

 itself. A plant of C. microphyila, 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 diameter. Another, at Redleaf, was, in 1837, nearly 

 as large. 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 extending 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 sculp- 

 tural shapes again to come into fashion, there are few plants better adapted for 

 the purpose than this and the preceding sort of Cotoneaster. 



. 11. C. (r.) ^uxifolia Wall. The Box-leaved Cotoneaster. 



Identification. Wall, ex Lindl. Bot. Reg., t. 1229. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 604. 

 Engraving. Our fig. 749. from a living specimen. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves ovate, woolly beneath, 

 evergreen. Peduncles 2 3-flowered, woolly. 

 Flowers white. {Don's Mill.) A native of 

 Neelgherry ; introduced in 1824; and ap- 

 parently a variety of C. rotundifolia, from 

 which it diifers in having the peduncles 2- 

 and 3-flowered, but scarcely in any thing 

 else. 



Variety, 

 n. 



749. C. (r.) iuiifblia. 



C. (b.) 2 viargindta, C. marginata 

 Lindl., has rather larger leaves, 

 which are covered thickly on the under side and margin with a dense 

 white tomentum. Raised in the Horticultural Society's Garden in 

 1838, from seeds received from Dr. Falconer of Saharunpore. 



Genus XVIII. 



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AMELA'NCHIER Med. The Amelanchier. Lin. Si/st. Icosandria 



Di-Pentagynia. 



Identification. Med. Gesch., 1793. i Lindl. in Lin. Soc. Trans , 13. p. 100. : Dec. Prod., 2. p. 632. ; 

 j Don's Mill., 2. p. 604. > i > . - i 



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