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HELIANTHEMUM scabrosum 



Rough Sun- Rose. 



Sect. I. HALIMIUM. Supra fol. 4. 

 ** Stylo subnullo, stigmate magno. 



H. scabrosum, caule fruticoso erectiusculo, ramis tomentosis villoso- 

 pilosis scabris canescentibus, foliis sessilibus basi attenuatis ob- 

 longo-ovatis acutiusculis scabriusculis trinerviis undulatis margine 

 subrevolutis : supra viridiusculis subtus tomentoso-cinereis, calyci- 

 bus 3-sepalis hirsntis, petalis distinctis. 



Helianthemum scabrosum. Pers. syn. 2. p. 76. DC.prodr. 1. p. 268. 

 Spreng. syst. 2. p. 587. 



Cistus scabrosus. Hort. Kew. v. 2. p. 236. edit. 2. v. 3. p. 308. Brot. 

 fi. Ins. 2. p. 265. Willden. sp. pi. 2. p. 1192. 



A handsome small bushy shrub, with spreading, ra- 

 ther crooked branches, that are densely clothed with 

 bunches of short hairs, and long soft villous ones inter- 

 mixed : as the hairs wear off, the stem becomes rough, 

 the hairs being seated on a sort of small warts or tuber- 

 cles, when young white or greyish, afterwards becom- 

 ing brown. Leaves opposite, sessile, but attenuated or 

 becoming gradually narrower towards the base, where 

 they are three-nerved, oblongly ovate, or sometimes 

 lanceolate, generally acute, but sometimes obtuse, very 

 much undulate at the margins, which are generally re- 

 flexed or rolled backwards, hairy on both sides, and 

 rough to the touch, particularly on the under side, up- 

 per side pale green, underneath very white while young, 

 but becoming greener by age. Stipules none. Flowers 

 bright yellow, without spots, terminating the branches, 

 generally from 2 to 5 in a sort of panicle, which would 

 probably be more numerous iu a strong plant. Bractes 



