8 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



downwards. Capsule with smooth valves almost as long as the 

 inner sepals. 



The Jersey plant has the leaves with stellate pubescence, and 

 the stem, peduncles, the upper surface of the leaves, and nerves on 

 the lower surface, with long white spreading hairs. 



BractJess Spotted Hock-Hose, or Sun-Rose. 



French, llilianlheme Taclie. Geruiau, Gelupfler Sonnengiinsel. 



Sub-Species? II.— Helianthemum Breweri. Planclwn. 

 Plate CLXVI.* 



Planclion in Hooker's London Journal of Botany, Vol. III. Tab. XXI. 



H. guttatiim, var. ft, Hook, k Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 45. Benth. Handbook Brit. Fl. 



p. 107. 



Radical leaves obovate ; lower stem leaves obovate-elliptical, 

 upper ones oblanceolate-strapshaped. E-acemes with bracts at the 

 base of each pedicel. 



On dry banks. Very rare. Holyhead mountain, and near 

 Amlwch, Anglesea. 



England. Annual. Summer, Autumn. 



Stems 1 to 4 inches high, simple or dichotomously branched, 

 the larger examples with more than one stem from the same root. 

 Leaves shorter, broader, and more enlarged towards the tip than 

 in n. eu-guttatum ; but the chief point of difference is the presence 

 of strap-shaped leafy bracts at the base of the pedicels. 



I am much inclined to agree with Dr. Walker Arnott and Mr. 

 Bentham in regarding this plant as a variety of the preceding. I 

 have specimens in which the bracts are absent from the base of at 

 least some of the pedicels ; while, on the other hand, Curtis's figure 

 of H. guttatum (Vol. II. No. 102), is certainly the ordinary form of 

 II. eu-guttatum with the bracteated raceme of H. Breweri. The 

 few petals of H. Breweri which I have seen are precisely similar 

 to those of H. eu-guttatum which I have gathered in Jersey. Of 

 course, if 11. Breweri be not even a sub-species, the " eu" must be 

 omitted in Sub-species I., and it should be termed var. genuina. 



Breioer^s Spotted Rock-Hose. 



Sub-Genus II.— PSEUDO-CISTUS. Duual. 



Petals longer than the sepals. Stamens numerous, all fertile. 

 Style elongate, bent down at the base, and again upwards at the 

 extremity, something like the letter S. Eunieulus not thickened. 

 Embryo bent into an S curve. 



* The Plate is drawn fiom an Anglesea specimen by Sir. J. E. Sowerby. 



