ROSACEi^ 



Cotoneaste?' horizontaUs. 



Gardens, walls, rockeries. May, June. A very attractive and decorative 

 species with dense branches growing in a horizontal position. It is almost 

 sub-evergreen, the leaves being retained well on to winter. They are at first 

 suffused with bronze, and then take on varying shades of red, those at the end 

 of the shoots lasting; the longest. 



Flowers white or rose ; Fruit a drupe, ovoid, scarlet, \ in. diam., 

 2-seeded. 



Leaves alternate, or fascicled on dwarf shoots, ovate-oblong, acuminate, 

 points recurved, entire, ciliate, glabrous and dark glossy green above, hoary 

 beneath, \-4^ in. long ; petioles short. Autumn tint bright red. 



A deciduous shrub, 2 ft., or 12 ft. on wall ; Branches stout, very dense, 

 horizontal, somewhat frond-like ; Ttdgs brown ; Ba7-k scaly. 



Native of Himalayas ; introduced 1879. 



COMMON COTONEASTER, Cotoneaster intcgerrima. 



Great Orme's Head. It is the only native species. May, June. 



Flowers pink, small, 1 in. diam., solitary, on short downy peduncles, or 4-5 in 

 short lateral cymes, on very short leafy branches, bracts minute ; Calyx gamo- 

 sepalous, turbinate, 5-lobed, persistent, lobes obtuse, margins woolly ; Petals 5, 

 small, persistent ; Stamens numerous, inserted in mouth of calyx ; Ovary inferior, 

 carpels 2-5, styles usually 3, stigma truncate; Fruit a false drupe, | in. diam., 

 globose, shining red, pubescent, pendulous, 2-5 bony 1-seeded stones cohering 

 only to sides of fleshy receptacle of calyx-tube {hypa/itliium). 



Leaves alternate, broadly elliptical-oblong, ovate or orbicular, 1-2 ins. long, 

 shortly petiolate, entire, rounded or acute, coriaceous, glabrous upper side ; short, 

 dense, white cottony down beneath ; stipules scarious, deciduous, minute. 

 Autumn tint brown. 



A deciduous shrub, 1-2 ft. ; or 3-5 ft. under cultivation ; liraiichlets 



ruddy, pubescent, tortuous. 



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