406 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
The genus, and C. frigida in particular, is not unlike the quince in its leaves. (Lindley in Bot, 
Reg. t. 1187. and 1229.) 
Gen. Char, Flowers polygamous from abortion. Calyx turbinate, bluntly 
5-toothed. Petals short, erect. Stamens length of the teeth of the calyx. 
Styles glabrous, shorter than the stamens. Carpels 2—8, parietal, biovu- 
late, enclosed in the calyx. (Don’s Mill.) . 
Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate or exstipulate, deciduous or evergreen ; 
generally woolly beneath. F/owers in corymbs, lateral, spreading, furnished 
with deciduous subulate bracteas, Petads 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. affinis, 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. 
g 1. C. vutea‘ris Lindl. The common Cotoneaster. 
Identification, Lindl. in Lin. Soc. Trans., 13. p. 101.; Dec. Prod., 2. p.632. 5 
Don’s Mill., 2. p.603. 
Synonymes. Méspilus Cotoneaster Lin. Sp. 686., Gd. Fl. Dan. t. 112.3 
Néflier cotonneux, Fr. ; Quitten-Mispel, Ger. ; Salciagnolo, Ztal. 
Engravings. O&d. Fl. Dan., t.112.; Eng. Bot. Suppl. t.2713.; and our 
Jig. 737. yy 
Spec. Char., Sc. 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 3ft.in a wild state; 
in cultivation 4 ft. to 5 ft. Cultivated in 1656. Flowers 
white, slightly tinged with pink; April and May. Fruit 
red or black ; ripe in July and August. 
737. C. vulgaris. 
Vaneties. The following three forms of this species are to be met with, both 
in a wild state, and in gardens : — 
a C. v. 1 erythrocdrpa Led. Fl. Alt. ii, p. 219. has the fruit red when 
ripe. 
a C.v. 2 melanocarpa Led., Méspilus Cotoneaster Pall. Fl. Ross. p. 30. 
t. 14., A. melanocarpa Fisch., C. melanocarpa Lod. Cat., has the 
fruit black when ripe. 
x: C.v. 3 depréssa Fries Nov. Suec. p.9., Dec. Prod. ii. p. 632., is rather 
spiny, with lanceolate acutish leaves, and fruit Rp, di 
including 4 carpels. It is a native of the rocks of \ 
Sweden near Warberg. : 
iss 
a 2. C. (v.) romenro’sa Lindi. The tomentose, or woolly, 
Cotoneaster, 
Identification. Lindl. in Lin. Soc. Trans., 13. p.101.; Dec. Prod., 2. 
632.; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 603. ae asesuiinniks 
Synonymes. Méspilus tomentdsa Willd, Sp... p. 1012., not Lam. ; MZ. erio- 
carpa Dec. Fl. Fr. 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 
"38 C. (v.) tomentosa. 
