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linear, hairy : upper ones stipulate : extreme upper ones alternate ; racemes 

 long, very slender ; flower-stalks short, all leaning to one side ; flowers 

 minute ; petals oblongly linear, smaller than the calyx, every other one 

 with a hairy margin. G Native of Spain, and Corsica. Petals yellow. 



Sect. IV. MACULARIA. DC. prodr. 1. p. 271. 



Calyx 5-sepalus, sepalis externis angustis, internis striatis. Petala lu- 

 tea, basi maculata. Stylus rectus erectusque ovario duplo longior, stanii- 

 nibus subaequalis. Stigma parvum, subtrilobum. Capsula laevis. Suffru- 

 tices aut herbae ? Folia petiolata,penninervia, angusta, exstipuldta. Flores 

 terminates, solitarii sen racemosi; racemis paucifioris: pedicellisecundi,basi 

 bracteati; bracteis subulatis parvulis. DC. prodr. 1. p. 271. 



18. H. lunulatum (DC. fl. fr. 4. p. 816.) Stem suffrutescent, some- 

 what twisted, branching : branches very slender, pubescent ; leaves flat, 

 oblong, tapering to the base, the margins more or less fringed ; flowers ter- 

 minal, on short footstalks, solitary, or from 2 to 4 in a sort of racemed 

 umbel. ^. Native of the Alps, at Piedmont. All. auct. p. 30. t. 2. f. 3. 

 Calyx when in flower reflexed ; petals yellow, nearly entire, or very 

 slightly notched, marked with a saffron-coloured crescent-shaped spot a lit- 

 tle above the unguis. 



19. H. petioldtum. Stem herbaceous? twisted at the base : branches 

 slender, ascending, somewhat forked, clothed with patches of ash-coloured 

 wool ; leaves oblongly linear, acute, tapering down into a long slender 

 footstalk, clothed on both sides with leprous patches of wool ; the upper 

 side of a bluish green, underneath hoary; racemes small, few-flowered; 

 flower-stalks and calyx pubescent.? Native of Spain. 



Sect. V. BRACHYPETALUM. Supra folio 41. 



20. H. villbsum (Pers. syn. 2. p. 78.) Stem woolly, with hairs inter- 

 mixed, of a sort of ash-colour ; leaves stipulate, petiolate, oblongly lan- 

 ceolate, slightly toothed, clothed on both sides, particularly underneath 

 with long shaggy wool ; racemes long, the flowers all leaning to one side 

 before flowering, revolute at the point, axillary, and terminal ; flower-stalks 

 erect, clothed with ash-coloured shaggy hairs, nearly opposite the bractes ; 

 calyx oblong, taper-pointed, clothed with shaggy hairs.. Native rvf 

 Spain. Bractes nearly sessile, ovately oblong, sometimes thinly toothed ; 

 petals lanceolate, narrow, shorter than the sepals, generally toothed, yellow. 



21. H. niloticum (Pers. syn. 2. p. 78.) Stem herbaceous: branches 

 erect, or ascending, clothed with short wool, or ash-coloured shaggy hairs; 

 leaves on short footstalks, opposite, oblongly elliptic, clothed with shaggy 

 wool : upper ones alternate, opposite to the flowers, all stipulate ; flower- 

 stalks erect, clothed with woolly hairs, as is also the taper-pointed 

 calyx.. Native of Egypt, Barbary, Spain, and the South of France. 



& procumbens. Stems procumbent, ascending, clothed with woolly 

 hairs, somewhat hoary, leaves woolly on both sides, particularly under- 

 neath.. Native of the South of France, and, probably, a distinct species? 



22. H. intermedium (DC. prodr. 1. p. 272.) Stem branching, erect, 

 or spreading and ascendant, clothed with ash-coloured shaggy hairs ; leaves 

 stipulate,petiolate,obovately oblong, bluntish,slightlytoothed,veined,thinly 

 woolly ; stipules linearly oblong, the upper ones scarcely twice the length 

 of the footstalks ; flower-stalks nearly opposite to the leaves, and, with the 

 calyx, clothed with ash-coloured shaggy hairs ; calyx oblong.. Native 

 of Spain. Cistus salicifolius. Cavan. ic. n. 156. 1. 144. Plant a span 



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