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Native of the Pyrenees, on sunny rocks : flowers yellow. Cistus pilo- 

 selloides. Lapeyrouse. 



43. H. mblle (Pers. syn. 2. p. 76.) Stem suffrutescent : branches gene- 

 rally simple, clothed with long hairs ; leaves roundish, ovate, blunt, petio- 

 late, clothed on both sides with soft woolly hair ; racemes simple, and, with 

 the calyx, clothed with ash-coloured woolly hairs. ^. Native of Spain. 

 Cistus mollis. Cavan. ic. 3. p. 32. t. 262. f. 2. Bractes subulate, minute, 

 clothed with woolly hairs, ash-coloured ; flowers yellow. 



44. H. oriyanifblium (Pers. syn. 2. p. 76.) Stem suffruticose, 2-3- 

 forked ; leaves on foot-stalks, ovate, hairy on both sides ; racemes short, 

 terminal; petals scarcely longer than the calyx. f?. Native of Spain. 

 Cistus origanifolius. Cavan. ic. 3. p. 31. t. 262. f. 1. Calyx oblong ; pe- 

 tals yellow, not above half the size of H. molli. 



45. H. dichotomum (Dunal in DC. prodr. 1. p. 276.) Stem sufFru- 

 tescent : branches forked, smoothish ; leaves minute, ovate, acute, smooth, 

 on short footstalks, the margin revolute ; racemes slender, few-flowered.^. 

 Native of Spain. -Cistus dichotomus. Cavan. ic. 3. p. 32. t. 263. f. 1. 

 Flowers small, deep yellow, scarcely so large as the flowers of Speryula 

 nodosa ; leaves small, resembling Thymus piperella. 



46. H. penicilldtum (DC. prodr. 1. p. 277.) Stem suffrutescent : 

 branches procumbent, clothed with long bristly hairs ; leaves green, clothed 

 with bristly hairs on the nerves and margins on both sides : lower ones on 

 footstalks, ovate, smallest : upper ones linearly oblong, nearly sessile ; ra- 

 cemes simple, and with the calyx bristly; flowers minute, t?. Native of 

 Spain, and the South of France. 



47. H. obovatum (Dunal in DC. prodr. 1. p. 277.) Stem suffrutesceiit : 

 branches spreading, somewhat forked, the points covered with short ash- 

 coloured wool ; leaves obovate, or oblong, blunt, green on both sides, 

 fringed, and clothed with short hairs : lower ones minute ; racemes simple, 

 few-flowered : calyx ash-coloured, hairy. ^. Native of Spain, near Aran- 

 juez. Leaves on short footstalks. 



48. H. italicum (Pers. syn. 2. p. 76.) Stem suffrutescent : branches 

 simple, erect, long, and slender, clothed with woolly hairs ; leaves clothed 

 with bristly hairs, the hairs strigose, and pressed flat to the leaf: lower ones 

 ovate and smallest: upper ones lanceolate, oblong, or oblongly linear; ra- 

 cemes simple, and, with the calyx, clothed with bristly hairs, hoary. f?. 

 Native of dry places near the Mediterranean. Cistus italicus. Linn, 

 spec. 740. Ba,rr. rar. ic. 10. 510. t. 366. 



49. H. Serrce (Cambessedes mem. mus. v. 14. p. 216. pi. 2.) Stem 

 short, erect, suffrutescent, branching ; leaves opposite, without stipules, on 

 short footstalks, somewhat cordately ovate, succulent, smooth, glaucous ; 

 racemes short, somewhat corymbose ; germen 3-celled ; style crooked at 

 the base ; stigma thickened.??. Native of the Balearic Islands, in sands, 

 by the sea side, in the large Island between Palmam and Prat. Nearly 

 related to H. marifo/ium. 



50. H. marifblium (DC. fl. fr. 4. p. 817.) Stem suffrutescent, procum- 

 bent ; leaves without stipules, petiolate, ovately cordate, or ovate, some- 

 what acute, upper side green and hairy, underneath hoary ; racemes ter- 

 minal, solitary, simple, few- flowered.^. Native of Italy, Spain, and the 

 South of France. Cistus marifolius. Linn. spec. 741. not of English Bo- 

 tany. Barrel, rar. ic. 521. t. 441. Calyx ovately oblong. We only 

 know this plant, by Barrelier's figure, and a specimen of it in Mr. Lam- 

 bert's herbarium ; it is not the least like the British plant, figured by this 



