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HELIANTHEMUM thymifolinm. 



Thyme-leaved Sun- Rose. 



Sect. II. FUMANA. Supra fol. 16. 

 *** Foliis oppositis alternisque stipulatis. 



H. thymifolium, caule suffruticoso procumbente, ramis pubescenti- 

 bus, foliis sublinearibus brevissimis pubescentibus oppositis summis 

 alternis, stipulis mucronatis erectis, pedunculis villoso-glutinosis 

 paucifloris. DC. prodr. 2. p. 276. 



Helianthemum thymifolium. Pers. syn. 2. p. 79. Spreng. syst. 2. 

 p. 591. 



Cistus thymifolius. Linn. spec. 743. Willden. sp.pl. 2. p. 1206. Hort. 

 Kew. ed. 2. v. 3. p. 312. Ffor. #nec. *. 500. Barrel, ic. t. 444. 



A pretty little dwarf suffrutescent plant. Stems nu- 

 merous, procumbent, the points ascending, densely pu- 

 bescent, or clothed with short hairs. Leaves crowded, 

 opposite, linearly oblong, scarcely acute, very short, 

 thickly clothed with a roughish pubescence ; the young 

 shoots produced in the axils of the leaves give the ap- 

 pearance of the leaves being tufted : upper leaves some- 

 times alternate. Stipules short, erect, mucronate. Ra- 

 cemes terminal, few-flowered, nodding before the flowers 

 expansion, becoming erect as they expand. Peduncles 

 and pedicles villosely hairy, somewhat glutinous. Brae- 

 tes short, very hairy. Pedicles drooping before the flow- 

 ers expansion, erect when in bloom, afterwards reflexed. 

 Calyx of 5 sepals, clothed with a short clammy pubes- 

 cence; the 2 outer ones very small and narrow, spread- 

 ing or somewhat reflexed, inner ones broadly ovate, 

 concave, short and inflated, acute. Petals 5, bright 

 yellow, obovate, somewhat crumpled, imbricate over 



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