CISTUS. 243 



Cistus ; but naturalists suppose it to have been 

 so named from the seed being enclosed in a cista, 

 or capsule. Gesner, and several writers of his 

 age, classed the larger kinds amongst the roses, 

 calling them Rosa Alpina, and Rosa Montana. 

 Parkinson writes of them under the title of Cistus, 

 The Holly Rose. 



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