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CISTUS canescens. 



Narrow-leaved hoary Rock-Rose. 



Sect. I. ERYTHROCISTUS. Supra foL 3. 



* Pedunculis unifloris, axillaribus vel terminalibus, solitariis um- 

 bellatisve ; stylo cylindrico scepe staminibus longiore; stigmate capi- 

 tate 5-sulcato. DC. prodr. 1. p. 264. 



C. canescens, foliis oblongo-linearibus obtusiusculis tomentoso-ca- 

 nescentibus undulatis subtrinerviis sessilibus subconnatis, pedun- 

 culis terminalibus unifloris aut subcymosis, sepalis ovatis acutis 

 nervosis stellato-pubescentibus, petalis obovatis distinctis. 



Cistus canescens. Swt. hort. brit. p. 468. n. 29. 



Cistus mas 2. Clus. hist. 1. p. 69. ic. 



Cistus incanus /3. foliis linearibus longis. DC. prodr. 1. p. 264. 



Stem shrubby, much branched : branches spreading, 

 densely clothed with fascicles of very short rigid hairs, 

 which are stellately spreading ; the leaves, peduncles, 

 and calyx, are all densely covered with the same sort 

 of hairs, which are so short and close to each other as 

 to appear like soft down. Leaves sessile, clasping the 

 stem and connected at the base, oblongly linear, blunt- 

 ish, the upper ones more pointed, attenuated a little 

 towards the base, but not near so much as in C. incanus, 

 some a little undulate, others quite flat, of a white 

 hoary colour, underneath more or less 3-nerved and 

 reticulately veined, a little rugose : upper leaves broad- 

 est at the base, with acute points. Flowers terminal, 

 in a sort of cyme on the strong shoots, on the weaker 

 ones solitary. Peduncles cylindrical, with a leafy bracte 

 at the base of each. Calyx of 5 sepals, which are ovate, 

 acute, undulate, strongly nerved with 4 to 6 prominent 

 nerves, inner ones rather smallest and convex, or con- 

 cave inside, with needle-shape points. Petals 5, obo- 

 vate, distinctly spreading, much crumpled, the margins 



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