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HELIANTHEMUM pulchellum. 



Neat Sun-Rose. 



Sect. VIII. PSEUDOCISTUS. Supra fol. 2. 





H. pulchellum, caule suffruticoso procumbent ramoso : rain is to- 

 mentoso-incanis, foliis rotundatis ovatisve obtusis supra viridibus 

 piloso-hispidis scabris : subtus tomentoso-incanis margine parum, 

 revolutis, racemis simplicibus, calycibus pilosis canescentibus, 

 petalis imbricatis. 



Helianthemum alpestre. Spreng. syst. 2. p. 590. nee aliorum^ 



A small trailing suffruticose plant ; branches short, 

 spreading in all directions, the points ascending*, tinged 

 with purple, the upper part clothed with a short white 

 thin tomentum, which wears off as they become older. 

 Leaves nearly round, or the upper ones ovate, the mar- 

 gins slightly revolute ; lower ones very small, green, 

 and dotted with little rough dots on the upper side, 

 and covered with stiffish white hairs, underneath 

 clothed with a dense white tomentum. Petioles short 

 and flat, fringed with long hairs. Racemes terminal, 

 simple, several-flowered, nodding before the flowers ex- 

 pansion, afterwards erect. Bractes lanceolate, acute, 

 broad at the base, very hairy. Pedicles slender, clothed 

 with a short white thin tomentum, and a few longer 

 hairs intermixed, nodding before the flowers expand, 

 and erect when in bloom, afterwards reflexed. Calyx 

 of 5 sepals, clothed with long bristly hairs, which give 

 it a white appearance ; 2 outer sepals very small, lance- 

 olate, bluntish ; inner ones ovate, obtuse, concave, 

 strongly nerved. Petals 5, broadly obcordate, imbri- 

 cate, slightly crenulate, of a bright pale yellow. Stamens 

 from 40 to 50, the filaments and anthers yellow. Ova- 



