178 DESCRIPTIONS OP THE SHRUBS 



KEY TO THE SPECIES OF COTONEASTER 



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



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

 berries. Excellent for rockeries. (A. ) 

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



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



CoTONEASTER — Cotoucaster horizonta,lis. 

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



flowers (^J inch long) white with spreading petals. May, June. 



Small-leaved Cotoneaster (268) — Cotoneaster microphylla. 

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



Box-leaved Cotoneaster — Cotoneaster buxifblia. 

 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 



rotundifblia. 



A. Leaves roundish to obovate, ^-| inch long, grayish or wliitisli 

 beneath, smooth above ; flowers white in 3-6-flowered clusters 

 with spreading petals. May, June. Round-leaved Cotoneaster 

 (270) — Cotoneaster nummulkria 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 Cotoneaster (271) — 

 Cotoneaster vulgaris. 



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

 (1-2 J inches long), oval, blunt ; fruit bright brick-red. Woolly 

 Cotoneaster (272) — Cotoneaster tomentbsa. 



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

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



D. Leaves small — ^-1 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 (J-l^- inches long), deciduous; flowers 



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



fruit red. (E.) 



