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HELIANTHEMUM carolinianum, 



Carolina Sun- Rose. 



Sect. II. LECHEOIDES. Supra fol. 11. 



** Pedunculis ramealibus unifloris ebracteatis. 



H. carolinianum,, caulibus herbaceis hirsutis erectis, foliis tomentoso- 

 hirsutis subdenticulatis breviter petiolatis obtusis : inferioribus op- 

 positis obovalibus : ceteris alternis oblongo-ovatis, pedunculis soli- 

 tariis unifloris hirsuto-candidis, calycibus hirsutis, sepalis internis 

 oblongis acutis. DC. prodr. 1. p. 269. 



Helianthemum carolinianum. Mich.jftor. bor. amer. 1. p. 307. Pers. 

 synops. 2. p. 77. Purshflor. amer. sept. 2. p. 364. Swt. hort. brit. 

 p. 35. n. 17. Spreng. syst. 2. p. 588. 



Cistus carolinianus. Walt.flor. carol. 152. Venten. eels. t. 74. 



Root perennial, somewhat creeping. Stems several 

 from the same root, erect, branching, very hairy, from 

 6 inches to a foot in height, the greater part dying back 

 in Winter, and fresh ones coming up in Spring : bran- 

 ches slender, very hairy, when young clothed with a 

 hoary tomentum, more or less tinged with purple. Leaves 

 alternate or the lower ones opposite, shortly petiolate, 

 hairy, and clothed with a whitish tomentum, and nu- 

 merous fascicles of hairs, rough, the margins somewhat 

 denticulate, variable in form, but all obtuse : lower ones 

 generally opposite, and ovate or obovate; the others al- 

 ternate and oblong or ovate, not so much rounded at 

 the points. Peduncles thickly clothed with little stellate 

 bunches of white hairs, as is also the calyx. Flowers 

 large, solitary, terminating the small branches, pale 

 yellow. Calyx of 5 long taper-pointed sepals, green, or 

 tinged with a purplish brown, very hairy : outer ones 

 narrow, linear, but broadest towards the base ; inner 



