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HELIANTHEMUM salicifolium. 



Willow-leaved annual Sun-Rose. 



Sect. V. BRACHYPETALUM. Supra fol. 41. 

 ** Pedunculis horizontalibus foliis sen bracteis longioribu$,Jloribus 

 erectis ; sepalis internis trinerviis. 



H. salicifolium, caule ramoso, ramis erectis vel adscendentibus sub- 

 hirsutis, foliis breviter petiolatis obovato-oblongis acutiusculis 

 denticulatis subtomentosis supn\ virescentibus, stipulis lineari- 

 oblongis superioribus folio dimidio brevioribus, pedunculis calyci- 

 busque hirsutis suboppositibracteis, bracteis ovatis acuminatis ses- 

 silibus iutegris. DC. prodr. 1. p. 273. 



Helianthemum salicifolium. Pers. syn. 2. p. 78. Willd. emim. 1. 

 p. 571 . Link enum. 2. p. 75. Spreng. syst. 2. p. 589. 



Cistus salicifolius. Linn. spec. 742. Willden. sp. pi. 2. p. 1200. 

 Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 3. p. 310. Flor. grcec. t. 



Annual, from a span to 9 inches in height, more or 

 less branched ; branches upright or ascending, more or 

 less hairy. Leaves on short petioles, obovately oblong, 

 bluntish or scarcely acute, clothed with a short down, 

 the margins fringed with fascicles of slender white 

 hairs, which are seated on little tubercles that gives the 

 appearance of small teeth, the upper side pale green; 

 underneath paler and strongly nerved : lower ones op- 

 posite, broadest, and bluntest ; the upper ones alter- 

 nate, narrower, and more acute. Petioles hairy. Sti- 

 pules linearly oblong or lanceolate, acute, the upper 

 ones broadest arid longest, also clothed with stellate 

 fascicles of hairs. Flowers small, yellow, in a sort of 

 terminal raceme. Pedicles generally opposite to a leaf 

 or bracte, horizontal or ascending, densely hairy, thick- 

 ening upwards. Bractes sessile, ovate, acuminate, also 

 thickly clothed with bunches of hairs seated on minute 



