The genus, and C. frígida in particular, is not unlike th e quince in its leaves. (Lindle y In Bot
1187. and 1229.) \ y oh
Gen. Char, Flowers polygamous from abortion. Cali/x turbinate, bluntly
5-toothed. Petals short, erect. Stamens length of the teeth of the calyx.
Sti/les glabrous, shorter than the stamens. Caiycls 2—3, parietal, biovulate,
enclosed in the calyx. {Don's Mill.)
Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate or exstipulate, deciduous or evergreen ;
generally woolly beneath. Floiuers in corymbs, lateral, spreading, furnished
with deciduous subulate bracteas. Petals 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. frígida
and C. affinis, in particular, being jiroduced in great abundance, and being of
an intense scarlet colour, have a very splendid appearance, and remain on
the trees tiie greater pai't of the winter. The cotoneasters are all readil}'
propagated by seeds, cuttings, layers, or grafting on C. vulgàris, on the common
quince, or on the hawthorn. Thougìì 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. Shruhs.
^ 1. C. v u lg a 'iu s Lindl. The common Cotoneaster.
Identification. Lindi, in Lin. Soc. Trans., 13. p. 101. : Dec. Trod., 2. d.632. ;
Don’s Mill., 2. p. ()03. - H .
Synonymes. Méspilus Cotoneáster L in . Sp. C8G., OEd. Fl. Dan. t. 112. ;
Néflier cotonneux, Fr. ; Quitten-Mispel, Ger. ; Salciagnolo, lia i.
Fl. Dan., t . l l2 . ; Eng. Bot. Suppl., t. 2713. ; and our
Spec. Char., 4^. Leaves ovate, rounded at the base. I
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 s tate;
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.
Varieties. The following three forms of this species are to be met with, both
iu a wild state, and in gardens : —
âii C. V. 1 erythrocarpa Led. Fl. Alt. ii. p. 219. has the fruit red when
ripe.
^ C. V. 2 melanocarpa Led., iUéspilus Cotoneáster. Pail. Fl. Ross. p. 30.
t. 14., ilY.'”®úinocárpa C. melanocarpa Lod. Cat., has the
fruit black when ripe.
C. V. 3 deprèssa Fries Nov. Suec. p. 9., Dec. Prod, ii, p . 632., is rather
spiny, with lanceolate acutish leaves, anti fruit p?.
including 4 carpels. It is a native of the rocks of
Swetlen near Warberg.
Sfc 2. C. ( v . ) TOM EN TO 'SA Lindi. The tomentose, or woolly,
Cotoneaster.
Engraving. Oar Jig. 73S. from a specimen in th e British Museum.
Sp^. Char., 4c. Leaves elliptical, obtuse at both ends.
Peduncles and calyxes woolly. {Dec. Prod.) A deciduous
shrub, like the preceding species, of which it appears
to us to be only a variety, found wild on the rocks
'38. C, (v.) lomentòxa.
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of Jm-a, and in other parta of the Alps of Switzerland ; and in cultivation
in British gardens since 1759.
The loose-flowered tt 3. C. (v .) l a x i f l o ' r a Jacg. Cotoneaster.
Mmtification. Jac'q. ex Lindi. Bot. Reg., t._1305. ; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 004.
ificatro
Engravings
739. C. (v.)laiiiflòra.
Variety.
:x U.iKU. xicro. V. .3 9 5 ^ ;
Bot. Reg., t. 1305. ; and our figs. 739. and 740.
Spec. Char., 4c. Leaves oblong, obtuse at both
ends, smooth above, and woolly beneath.
Cymes panicled, pilose. C f tx e s qmte
smooth. Flowers pink. (Dons M ill)
Branches brownish purple, with an ash-
coloured cuticle, which peels off. A ta -
ciduous shrub, flowering m April, and having
the same general appearance and habit as L.
vulgàris, but diff'crmg from it m haviug large
loose racemes,and in the colour of its flqwei s,
and their greater number. It was raised in
the Garden of the Horticultural Society,
from seeds sent by Professor J a c q ift of
Vienna, in 1826. Its native country is
unknown.
740. C. (V.) laxUlòra.
C. (V .) l.2uniflòra Fis ch er.-F low crs solitary. Horticultural Society’s
Garden.
t t e 4. C. D E N T I C U L A 'T A . The tootlicd-leaved Cotoneaster.
741. C. denUoulàta.
Identficaiion. B . , -vol. vi. p. 214.
Engravings. H. et B., vol. vi. t. 55fa. ; and our fig. /4 I.
Spec. Char., ofr. Leaves elliptic, or obovate-elliptic,
rounded on both s i d e s , mucronate-cuspidate denticulate
at the apex, coriaceous, smooth above,
tomentose, pubescent and hoary b en ftth . Corymbs
simple. Flowers sub-dodecandrous with
1 - 2 stigmas. Calyx woolly tomentose. (H. e t ,
B.) A siirub, apparently sub-evergreen, and very
like C. vulgàris. Mexico, on elcvfted plains
near Actopa, at the height of 6000 ft. Height
? 5 f t. to 6 ft. Introduced in 1839.^ ftowei.s
white; September. F ru it? . Raised in the Hoi-
ticultural Society’s Garden from seeds sent home
by M. Hartweg.
§ ii. Suh-evergreen or deciduous. Tall Shruhs or low Trees.
B 5 . C. f r T g i d a 11%«. The frigid Cotoneaster
Mentir,catim. W»ll. p Lindi. Bo*. “ p r id i s '.'rCM .
S ’l r t r p l iY i .hi?’sVcclcs”i„ A r t, Brit., vol. vl. ; and o ur^ ;;. 742.
O n, s. Drom’blets woollv. Lcaves elliptical, nuicronale, coriaceous,
rorticn TTriffbt 10 ft to 2 0 tt. Introduced m 1824. Floweis ol a snowj
part of the winter. , . , „
A remarkably robust-growing, sub-evergreen, low tree 3 oli
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