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HELIANTHEMUM glutinosum 



Clammy Sun-Rose. 



Sect. VII. FUMANA. Supra fol. 16. 

 *** Foliis oppositis alternisque stipulatis. 



' 

 H. glutinosum, caule suffruticoso adscendente, ramis villoso-gluti- 



nosis subcinereis, foliis sublinearibus margine revolutis villoso- 



glutinosis subcinereis oppositis; summis alter nis, stipulis inferio- 



ribus minutis : ceteris longis laxiusculis, pedunculis calycibusque 



villoso-glutinosis. DC. prodr. 1. p. 276. 

 Helianthemum glutinosum. Pers. syn. 2. p. 79. Willd. enum. supp. 



p. 39. Link enum. h. ber. 2. p. 76. Spreng. syst. 2. p. 591. Swt. 



hort. brit. p. 35. 

 Cistus glutinosus. Linn. sp. pi. 2. p. 1206. Mant. 246. Willden. sp. 



pi. 2. p. 1206. Cavan. ic. 2. p. 36. 1. 145. /. 2. U0r*. .fiTeto. edif. 2. 



jSfew suffruticose, slender, erect or ascending, clothed 

 with a brown bark that scales off, much branched : 

 branches slender, erect or ascending, thickly clothed 

 with short villous hairs, that are more or less viscous, 

 giving a grey or hoary appearance. Leaves opposite on 

 the lower part of the stem, the upper ones alternate, 

 linear or sometimes lanceolately linear, revolute at the 

 margins, thickly clothed with short viscous hairs, of a 

 dark green colour, but they appear rather hoary from 

 the hairs with which they are covered, upper ones shor- 

 ter and blunter. Petioles very short. Stipules on the 

 lower leaves small, subulate, fleshy, pubescent : on the 

 upper ones longer and larger, spreading, and bluntish, 

 villous. Flowers axillary, solitary, terminating the bran- 

 ches in a sort of raceme, that is at first a little nodding, 

 but as the flowers expand, it becomes upright. Pedicles 

 villosely viscous. Calyx of 5 sepals, clothed with short 



