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RHODODENDRON Cuamacistus, THYME-— 
LEAVED RHODODENDRON. 
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Clafs and Order. 
DeEcANDRIA MonoGyYNIA, 
Generic Charaéer. 
Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. fubinfundibuliformis. Svam. declinata, 
Cap/. 5-locularis. oil 3 
Specific Characer and Synonyms, =~ 
_. RHODODENDRON foliis ciliatis, corollis rotatis:: Linz. 
; Spec. Pl. ed. 2. p. 562. Facq. Fi. 
Aufir. t. 217. Scop. Fl, Carniol. ed. 2. 
: , n. 481. es 
LEDUM foliis ferpylli ad margines cilii inftar pilofis, flore 
ae purpureo. Mich. Gen. p. 225. tab. 106. 
CHAM CISTUS VIII. Clu/. Hif. 1. p. 76.) | 
- CHAMAECISTUS IV. Cluf. Pan. 64. 
CHAMACISTUS hirfata. C. B. Pin. 466. | 
CHAMZRHODODENDRON berberis folio flore amplo 
| —rofeo. Gmel. Sibir, 4. p.126. 
CISTUS chamzrhododendros foliis confertis ferrea rubigine 
; - nitentibus, margine pilofis. Pluk. Alm. 
106. tab, 23. f. 4.? 
For this very rare and beautiful little plant we are indebted 
to Mr. Loppipces, Nurferyman, at Hackney, who raifed 
feveral of them from feeds fent him ten or twelve years ago,- 
from Laubach, in Auftria, by a friend who gathered them on 
the extreme tops of the Crain mountains. 
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It is a plant of very flow growth and difficult culture, which 
_ tuft always make ita great rarity. It flowers in April, is kept — 
in bog-earth in a fheltered fituation and Northern afpeét. 
The Ciftus Chamerhododendros of PLuxener is, perhaps, 
intended for fome other plant, as the leaves of this are per- 
fe&ly free from any ferruginous appearance. 
___ As, perhaps, few Englifh Botanifts have feen the Rhodo- 
dendron Chameciftus in flower, the following defcription may 
not be unacceptable. — It rifes with feveral diffufe branched 
