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HELIANTHEMUM eriocaulon. 



Woolly-stalked Sun-Rose. 



Sect. III. TUBERARIA. Supra, fol. 18. 



** Annua,foliis superioribus s<ep& stipulates, racemis secundis ter 

 minalibus. 



H. eriocaulon, caule herbaceo ramoso di-trichotomo kirsutissimo, 

 foliis oblongo-linearibus angustis hirsutis oppositis : superioribus 

 stipulaiis : extremis alternis, racemis simplicibus ebracteatis, pe- 

 dicellis tiliformibus longis pilosis, sepalis externis angustis. JJu- 

 nalin DC. prodr. 1. p. 271. 



Helianthemum eriocaulon. Swt. hort. brit. p. 35. n, 21. 



Annual. Root fibrous. Stems erect, branching, from 

 6 inches to a foot in height; 2 or 3-forked, thickly 

 clothed with long spreading white hairs, and short down 

 underneath. Leaves oblongly-linear, 3-nerved from the 

 base, clothed on both sides with long spreading hairs, 

 and with fascicles of short stellate ones underneath, 

 rough and punctate, with numerous small dots ; lower 

 ones opposite, bluntish, without stipules : upper ones 

 alternate, acute, with long stipules. Stipules long, linear, 

 the margins a little reflexed, very hairy, and fringed. 

 Racemes terminal, many-flowered, without bractes, the 

 flowers all facing one way, nodding before the flowers 

 expand, afterwards becoming erect. Pedicles long and 

 slender, nodding before the expansion of the flowers, 

 erect when in bloom, afterwards reflexed and length- 

 ening, clothed with short down and long hairs inter- 

 mixed. Calyx of 5 sepals, the 2 outer ones smallest, ob- 

 long, obtuse, the margins reflexed, and fringed with long 

 white hairs : 3 inner ones ovate, acute, concave, mem- 

 branaceous, clothed with long spreading white hairs, 

 and short down underneath, warted near the base with 

 10 to 12 small black warts. Petals 5, distinctly spread - 



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