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on her operations on tlie leaves of tbe Rose-tree, and may be watched by those who 

 care to observe her curious ingenuity. 



An old proverb says, " Years of store of haws and hips do commonly portend 

 cold winters j" but we fail to trace any connection between the twa 



Stjb-Order III.— POMIFERiE. 



Trees or shrubs, with simple or more rarely pinnate leaves. 

 Stipules free, persistent only on the barren shoots, deciduous on the 

 flowering ones. Calyx superior (adhering to the ovary), persistent, 

 the segments shrivelling. Petals white, pink, or red. Stamens 

 indefinite. Carpels adhering to the walls of the calyx-tube and 

 usually cohering with each other, 5 in number or fewer by abortion. 

 Ovules 2, rarely more, in each carpel. Styles terminal. Fruit a 

 pome, consisting of a fleshy exterior portion, containing a parchment- 

 like or woody core, divided into as many cells as there are carpels, 

 each cell commonly containing 2 seeds. 



GENUS XIII.— C OTONEASTER. " Medikus," Lindley. 



Calyx-tube turbinate, adhering to the ovary; limb superior, 

 5-toothed. Petals 5, inserted in the throat of the calyx, ovate, 

 erect. Stamens numerous, inserted in the throat of the calyx, and 

 equalling its limb. Carpels 2 to 5, adhering to the tube of the 

 calyx, but cohering together, each carpel with 2 erect collateral 

 ovules. Styles 2 to 5. Fruit fleshy, containing 2 to 5 bony stones 

 or pyrenes adhering to the tube of the calyx, but projecting above 

 the pulp and separate for about one-third of their length from the 

 apex downwards. 



Shrubs with alternate simple entire leaves, woolly below. 

 Flowers small, white or pink, in spreading lateral corymbose cymes. 

 Bracts subulate, deciduous. Petals small, persistent. 



This genus of plants is named from the similarity of its foliage to the Gotoneum 

 (quince-tree). 



SPECIES I.— COTONEASTER VULGARIS. Lindley. 

 Pl.'vte CCCCLXXVII. 

 Mespilus Cotoneaster, Linn. Sp. Plant, p. 686. 



Leaves roundish ovate, apiculate, with a whitish felt beneath 

 and on the footstalks. Pedicels slightly downy. Calyx glabrous, 

 with the edges of the teeth woolly. Fruit pendulous, red. 



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