of Cotoneaster vulgaris, the circumstance had been forgotten :
it is not easy to account in any other way for this very singular
instance of delitescence.
A small bush, without thorns; the young shoots downy.
Leaves deciduous, on short downy footstalks, broadly elliptical,
obtuse or acute; covered beneath with a dense cottony
pubescence. Stipules in pairs, tapering, dark red and
covered with down. Flower-stalks also downy, from the
same buds as the leaves, and either solitary or in branches
withthree or four flowers, but always shorter than the leaves.
Bracteas minute, red, lanceolate. Flowers drooping, pale
red. Segments of the calyx ovate, blunt, erect, with a woolly
fringe. Petals orbicular, a little jagged or toothed in the
margin, generally converging and overlapping each other.
Filaments 16—20, awl-shaped and compressed, bent inwards
so as to cause the anthers to lie in a cluster over the stigmas.
Styles filiform, arising from near the middle of the inner or
angular part of the germens. Tube of the calyx (usually
considered as superior, but according to Professor Lindley’s
view, inferior,) turbinate, externally glabrous. Fruit red,
roundish, crowned with the segments of the calyx, which
are exactly closed over the seeds, forming part of their
fleshy covering. Seeds or nuts bony, not cohering together,
nor splitting into valves.
Each germen contains the rudiments of two embryos, only
one of which comes to maturity. Embryo erect, with oval
cotyledons.
This plant occurs in various parts of the Ormeshead, but
is most plentiful on three ranges of rocks just above the
village of Llandudno.—Flowers in May, fruit ripe in July.
W. W.