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guticum [and extending to the northern chain of the Da-Tung]. 
Seed was unluckily not procurable ; our hope depends on dormant 
tubers sent home in the winter, and erelong to be distributed, 
if all goes well. [Alas ! they all died in due course.] 
Corydalis sp. (F 418) is a version of F 113, living on the loess 
cliffs round Minchow, and differing for the better in having larger 
flowers of a clear decisive yellow. There is not yet enough seed 
to distribute, as almost all the pods were discharged by the time 
I got back to Minchow. (I take no count here of various other 
spp. seen — gawky dull weeds, lush and ephemeral, of no value 
except for the herbarium.) 
Cotoneaster sp. (F 111, 402a) lives in the cliffs about Siku and 
Mo-Ping. It is perhaps C. Dielsiana (C. applanata) — a very 
graceful, applanate, sprayed, rounded-leaved shrub, with berries 
of bright opaque scarlet. 
Cotoneaster Dammeri var. radicans (F 148). — This is perhaps the most 
important of all. I have seen it only at one point, in the limestone 
bottom of the great Siku gorge where, growing and resting and re- 
rooting as it goes, in almost pure limestone silt, it ramps perfectly 
tight and flat along the floor, moulding each boulder in its embrace, 
and developing a carpet many yards across, of refulgently glossy 
and apparently evergreen rounded foliage, among which glows 
in September-October a richly scattered profusion of brilliant 
scarlet fruits like holly-berries peppered over a lucent ground- 
willow, with here and there the amber leaves of autumn enhancing 
the sombre gloss of the carpet's green, and the flashing wealth 
of its bejewelment of berries. These were red and ripe on 
August 28 ; they were yet larger, redder, and more brilliant 
still at the latest back-end of October. It is certainly new to my 
experience, and should prove a prize of most special preciousness, 
whether for its own beauty, sheeting a slope, or as covert for 
Daffodil and Crocus. 
Cotoneaster sp. (F 4010) is a magnificent tall and rather gawky 
bush of 6-8 feet from the lower alpine coppice about Satanee. 
It looks close to C. bacillaris, but the foliage is not smooth, and 
the glossy ebony berries are looser in their cluster and more 
pendulous on their footstalks. 
Cotoneaster sp. (F 4016) is a rather smaller and inferior form (?) 
from the pass above Mo-Ping. 
Cotoneaster sp. (F 402&) occurred to me once or twice in the Nan 
Ho Valley, and seemed to me to differ in being a smaller bush of 
much neater habit, with much smaller and more close-set leaves, 
and a much richer profusion of berries. The applanate sprays, 
however, though condensed, remain the same. 
Cotoneaster sp. (F 403) I saw only once — several bushes round 
about a farm on the ascent out of Gahoba towards Satanee. 
This stands near C. multiflora ; it is a tall shrub or low tree, 
with long spreading branches abundantly set with lax clusters 
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