178 DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SHRUBS 



KEY TO THE SPECIES OF COTONEASTEK 



* Low prostrate plants with small leaves, |-| inch long, evergreen 01 



nearly so ; pink or white flowers in clusters of 1-3 and bright red 

 berries. Excellent for rockeries. (A. ) 

 A. Leaves round-oval, pointed, i-f inch long ; flowers pink with 



erect petals, in June ; fruit oblong, bright red. PKOSTRATK 



COTONEASTER Cotoneaster horizontalis. 

 A. Leaves wedge-shaped, shining above and densely hairy below; 



flowers (\~l inch long) white with spreading petals, May, June. 



SMALL-LEAVED COTONEASTER (208) Cotoneaster microphylla. 

 A. Similar to the last but with rather dull oval leaves ^-| inch long. 



POX-LEAVED COTONEASTER Cotoneaster buxifolia. 

 A. Similar to the last but of more upright growth ; leaves more 



rounded, hairy below ; the bright red fruit remaining on through 



the winter. EVERGREEN COTONEASTER (269) Cotoneaster 



rotundifolia. 



A. Leaves roundish to obovate, -f inch long, grayish or whitish 

 beneath, smooth above ; flowers white in 3-C-flowered clusters 

 with spreading petals, May, June. ROUND-LEAVED COTONEASTER 

 (270) Cotoneaster numrnularia orbicularis. 



* More or less erect shrubs reaching the height of 4 or 6 feet. (B. ) 



B. Leaves white-hairy beneath ; flowers with erect petals ; fruit 

 red. (C.) 



C. Flowers pale-pinkish in small nodding clusters, May, June ; 

 leaves smooth, dark green above, thick, oval (|-2 inches long) ; 

 fruit globular, bright red. COMMON- COTONKASTER (271) 

 Cotoneaster vulgaris. 



C. Flowers 3-12 in cluster, white, June ; leaves dull green above 

 (l-2 inches long), oval, blunt ; fruit bright brick-red. WOOLLY 

 COTONEASTER (272) Cotoneaster tomentosa*. 



B. Leaves green both sides ; flowers with spreading white or pinkish 

 petals in 2-5-flowered clusters. (D.) 



D. Leaves small \-\ inch, roundish, pointed, nearly evergreen; 

 fruit bright red. SIMOND'S COTONEASTER Cotoneaster 

 Simonsi. 



D. Leaves larger 1|-3 inches long; flowers nodding; fruit deep 

 red, oblong. POINTED-LEAVED COTONEASTER Cotoneaster 

 acuminata. 



B. Leaves whitish beneath Q-H inches long), deciduous; flowers 

 with spreading petals in erect many-flowered (3-20) clusters; 

 fruit, red. (E.) 



