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HELIANTHEMUM vineale. 



Slender-trailing Sun- Rose. 



Sect. VIII. PSEUDOCISTUS. Supra fol. 2. 



H. vineafe, caule suffruticoso procumbente ; ramis adscendentibus 

 piloso-tomentosis canescentibus, foliis ovato-oblongis suprii viri- 

 dibus piloso-strigosis; subtus tomentoso-incanis, racemis simpli- 

 cibus paucifloris calycibusque piloso-tomentosis canescentibus, 

 petalis distinctis patentibus. 



Helianthemum vineale. Pers. syn. 2. p. 77. DC. prodr. 1 . p. 277. 

 Spreny. syst. 2. p. 590. Swt. hort. brit. p. 35. 



Cistus vinealis. Willden. sp. pi 2. p. 1195. 



A trailing suffrutescent plant, very much branched : 

 branches ascending, long and slender, clothed with a 

 hoary tomentum, and some long hairs intermixed. 

 Leaves opposite, ovate or oblong, bluntish, the lower 

 ones broadest and roundest, the upper side green, but 

 covered with white rigid hairs, underneath clothed 

 with a dense white tomentum, other leaves on the same 

 plant are green on both sides ; after flowering, a great 

 part of them become quite white ; pennately nerved. 

 Petioles flat, fringed, not so long as the leaves. Ra- 

 cemes terminal, few-flowered, nodding before the ex- 

 pansion of the flowers, afterwards erect. Bractes lan- 

 ceolate, acute, very hairy and fringed, the points re- 

 flexed. Pedicles slender, very hairy and canescent, 

 nodding before expansion, erect when in flower, and 

 continuing so when in fruit. Calyx of 5 sepals, his- 

 pidly hairy, canescent, 2 outer sepals small, linear, 

 fringed, 3 inner ones broadly ovate, concave, with red 

 margins. Petals 5, distinct, spreading, longer than the 

 sepals, yellow, narrow at the base and broad at the 



