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CISTUS florentinus, 

 Florentine Rock-Rose. 



Sect. II. LED ONI A. Supra fol 1. 



. 1. Pedunculis unifloris, aut multifloris cymosis ; sepalis 5, exter- 

 nis scepius cordatis acuminatis ; capsulis b-locularibus. 



* Pedunculis basi nudis, stepe infra medium folia opposita geren- 

 tibus. 



C.jftorentinus, foliis lanceolatis rugosis reticulato-venosis subsessili- 

 bus, pedunculis villosis subtriiloris, sepalis longe acuminatis pi- 

 losis, petalis imbricatis. 



Cistus florentinus. Lam. diet. 2. p. 17. DC. prodr. 1. p. 265. Swt. 

 hort. brit. p. 34. Spreng. syst. 2. p. 585. 



Stem shrubby, much branched : branches crowded, 

 spreading, erect, or ascending, more or less tinged with 

 purple ; when young clothed with bunches of hairs, 

 which are unequal in length, and are seated on a little 

 tubercle ; older branches glossy but rough, occasioned 

 by the little tubercles on which the hairs had been seat- 

 ed. Leaves linearly lanceolate or sometimes oblongly 

 lanceolate, undulate, acute, tapering to the base, upper 

 ones sessile and broad at the base ; lower ones taper- 

 ing to the base into a sort of footstalk, 1 -nerved, pen- 

 nately and reticulately veined, the points a little recur- 

 ved ; when young clothed with numerous bunches of 

 short hairs, and a sort of thin tomentum underneath, 

 the hairs mostly curved upwards towards the point, 

 stiff and rigid, which causes a roughness; old ones be- 

 coming smooth and glossy, and more or less tinged with 

 purple. Bractes or leaves on the flower-stem, sessile, 

 three-nerved from the base. Peduncles and pedicles 

 clothed with spreading hairs and shorter down inter- 

 mixed, which gives them a hoary appearance, the pe- 



