glandular and simple hairs. Stigma spreading into three deeply fringed 
lobes, prolonged above into a central conical tuft. Seeds deeply pitted, pale 
yellow brown. Leaves linear, acute, distinctly petiolate, subglabrous, with 
a few equidistant, marginal, and one terminal bristle-shaped hair. Stipules 
erect, always shorter than the leaf. 
Fumana viscida y. juniperina, Willk. Ic. Plant. Hisp. ii. 159, tab. 
CLXIV. f. 3; F. viscida, Spach, y. juniperifolium, Gren. et Godr. Fl. de 
Fr. 1.175; Helianthemum juniperinum, Woods, Tour. Fl. p. 36; H. glu- 
tinosum, Pers. Ardoino, Fl. Alpes Mar. p. 48 (part). 
(D.) Spec. Cuar.—Pedunceles filiform, about three times calyx, glabrous, 
lowest peduncles opposite to bracts, upper axillary. Bracts short, about 4 
peduncle, ciliate. Calyx covered with Jong hairs, many of which are 
glandular. Corolla smaller than that of J. viscida y. juniperina, Willk. 
Stigma as in LF’. viscida y. juniperina, Seeds deeply pitted, dark brown. 
Leaves and stipules linear-setaceous, glabrous, alternate, dark glaucous 
green, sessile. Stem woody below, very slender, much branched, ends of 
young branches nodding and pubescent. 
Fumana levipes, Spach, Ann. Sc. Nat. sér, 2, vi. 8359; Gren. et 
Godr. Fl. de Fr. i. p. 174; Woods, Tour. Fl. p. 36; Ardoino, Fl. Alpes 
Mar. p. 48. 
Haszirats.—(A.) Near Grimaldi, Mentone, Ap. 20, 1867 ; (B.) L’Hermi- 
tage, Hyéres, May 6, 1868; (C.) Montegrosso, Mentone, April 7, 1871; 
(D.) near Grimaldi, Mentone, Ap. 17, 1871. All collected by myself. 
Remarks.—The four plants figured on this plate may all be found grow- 
ing together at Mentone near Pont St. Louis, especially near the Child’s 
Cross, and above Dr. Bennet’s garden. Had space permitted I should 
like to have added a figure of Fumana Spachii, Gren. et Godr., which 
also abounds at Mentone, and which is easily distinguished by its exstipu- 
late leaves. The genus Fumana is characteristic of the Mediterranean 
region, and almost limited to it in a northward direction; F. procumbens, 
Gren. et Godr., alone extending into central and northern France, Switzer- 
land, Germany, and the Swedish island of Gothland (Nyman*). Most 
closely allied to Helianthemum, it is distinguished from it by the curious 
character of the barren outer filaments destitute of anthers, and by its seeds, 
the funicle or suspending cord of which is united to the seed coat in the 
greater part of its length, thus forming the projecting ridge containing the 
feeding vessels of the embryo, called the raphe. It is a curious, though 
perhaps merely coincident, fact that the stamens in wild hybrids between 
Cistus salvifolius, L., and C. monspeliensis, L., are frequently reduced in 
size or absent. All the parts of the flower are, however, liable to suffer, 
and I have seen an entire bush of x Cistus monspeliensi-salvifolius covered 
with minute flowers destitute of stamens, not larger than those of Fumana 
viscida y. though either parent of this hybrid has large flowers. 
All the forms represented are common between Marseilles and Genoa, 
% ‘Sylloge,’ p. 226. 
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