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authors known as vulgaris or unijiora.) Minu- 

 tifo/ia, small, broad, ovate leaves, covered on 

 the under sides and edges with grey-coloured 

 down ; flowers, singly or very seldom two. I 

 discovered it near Heiligenstadt (Elisabeth- 

 hohe), and in nearly identical form but with 

 somewhat smaller leaf on the Hiihnerspiel in 

 Tyrol. Oxyphylla, a compact, erect shrub, the 

 undersides of the leaves thickly covered with 

 grey down ; tip of leaf furnished with a spine ; 

 in shape ovate ; not unlike C. racemijiora, but 

 with larger fruit of purple red. The Swiss 

 Alps (Bagne Thai). 



C. uni//ora (Bunge) (Single-blossomed Rock- 

 spray). — A shrub 20 to 2jh inches high ; in 

 the Alpine regions it takes a prostrate form. 

 The branches, green at first and covered with 

 down, turn to russet and later on appear scaly. 

 Leaves green, oval in shape, but also ovate and 

 with short tips ; the undersides sea-green and 

 either smooth at first or becoming so. Flower 

 single, stalk scarcely as long as the calix and 

 smooth. Fruit round, bright red, containing 

 three stones. Native of the Altai and Soon- 

 garian Alps. 



C.distkha (Lange) . — An erect,almost ever- 

 green shrub ; the bi-lateral branches covered 

 with stiff" hairs; the leaves small, leathery, and 

 round oval; the end stiff, ending in a strong 

 spine. The leaf-stalk short ; the upper side of 

 leaf bright green covered with close, stiffhairs, 

 the underside a much lighter shade of green 

 with hairs on the midrib, edges, and stalk. 

 The single nodding, sometimes horizontal, 

 blossoms appear at end of June borne on short 

 side twigs ; are of fair size and a handsome red 

 in colour. The scarlet, oval-shaped berries ap- 

 pear in October. Its wealth of flowers and fruit 

 and handsome foliage make it a welcome little 

 shrub, and it is about as hardy for our winters 

 as the well-known C. buxifolia. Himalayas. 



C. horvzontalis (Decaisne) . — A much rami- 

 fied shrub with horizontally spreading main 

 branches, which are at first yellow, then brown, 

 and covered with stiff depressed hairs. The sub- 

 evergreen leaves are small with short stalks, 

 round oval in shape, and the tips spined ; the 

 upper side is a vivid green and smooth, the 

 under side light green with bristles on the mid- 

 rib and edges. The leaves fall late, after taking 

 first a red, then rose colour. The blossoms are 



numerous and pretty, appearing in the second 

 fortnight of June, generally in twos, seldom 

 singly, and are borne on short from two to six 

 leaved side twigs. They are small with erect 

 petals and rose colour. The fruit is round or 

 conical, bright vermilion in colour, and small, 

 having mostly three stones. A fairly hardy 

 shrub, even in Germany, but in southern Bri- 

 tain quite hardy, and very desirable for the 

 rock-garden, being brilliant in fruit and of fine 

 plumed habit. 



C.Simonsii (Hort). — An erect woody shrub 

 of medium height, with long slender branches 

 and bi-lateral shoots covered with stiff hair. 

 The leaves are sub-evergreen, with short stalks, 

 the upper sides smooth, the under sides covered 

 with down, the midrib and edges somewhat 

 stouter in texture than the rest of the leaf, and 

 hairy. The blossoms appear at the beginning 

 of July, borne singly, or, at most in umbels of 

 twos or fives, on short leaf twigs ; they are 

 white with red stains. The fruit is bright ver- 

 milion, round or oval in shape, and contains 

 three or four stones. This shrub is one of the 

 handsomest of the race in berry, and is fairly 

 hardy in our winter. The seed first came to 

 me from the St. Petersburg Botanical Garden 

 under the name of C. acuminata^ which, how- 

 ever, it in no way resembles in essentials. Its 

 origin is unknown ; probably of the Himalayan 

 region. 



C. acuminata (Lindley). — An erect shrub 

 about 6h feet high, with strong shoots and 

 erect branches, which are bright green at first, 

 and thickly covered with almost rough hairs. 

 The leaves are not glossy, are dark green above, 

 bright green beneath, and end in a sharp spine; 

 they are oval in shape, and on both sides are 

 scattered over with stiff depressed hairs. The 

 blossoms appear in the first half of June, in 

 umbels of two to five (seldom singly), borne 

 on short leafy stalks ; they are of fair size, and 

 white with red stains. The fruit is a dark scar- 

 let red, long and flattened at both ends, con- 

 taining at most two stones. The shrub belongs 

 to the Himalayan region, and in central Ger- 

 many is only injured in the severest winters, 

 and afterwards recovers in strength. 



C. parnassica (Boissier) . — Small and low, 

 symmetrically formed shrub with small leaves, 

 smooth on the upper sides, downy beneath. 



