( 1803 ) 



ClSTUS SAMPSUCIFOLIUS. ROUGH 

 DwARF-ClSTUS. 



Class and Order. 



PoLYANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 



Generic Character. 



Cor. 5-petala. Cat. 5-phyllus : foliolis duobus minoribus, 

 Capsuia. 



Specific Clvaracter and Synonyms. 



Cistus sampsucifolius ; (suffruticosus stipulatus) caule assur- 



gente hispido, foliis oblongo-ovalibus integerrimis planis 



superne scabris subtus tomentosis. 

 Helianthemum sampsuchifolium. Mill. Diet. ed. 8. 

 Cistus pilosus. y. Martyn Mill. Diet. Allioni Pedem. t. 45. 



f. 1. ? nee Jig. 2. quae differt foliis margine revolutis. 

 Cistus foliis villosis lanceolatis stipulis subulatis. Sauv. Monsp. 



148. 

 Helianthemum, sive Cistus humilis folio sampsuchi, capi- 



tulis valde hirsutis. Bank. Hist. 2. p. 20. f. 2. 

 Cistus mutabilis. Jacq. ic. rar. t. 99 ? an varietas glabra ? 



That our plant is the Helianthemum sampsuchifolium of 

 Miller,, we have satisfied ourselves from comparison with 

 Miller's own specimens, now preserved in the Banksian 

 Herbarium. There is likewise one of the same species from 

 Montpelier. Different specimens vary very much with respect 

 to the hairiness of the calyx, this part being in some nearly 

 smooth, in others clothed with long hairs. 



Allioni considers our plant, pilosus, polifolius, apenninus, 

 and probably mutabilis, as mere varieties of the same species ; 

 but we would at least distinguish those in which the margins 

 of the leaves are revolute from the plain-leaved, and conse- 

 quently the first figure of his pilosus from the second. 



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