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HELIANTHEMUM canum. 



Hoary Sun-Rose. 



Sect. VIII. PSEUDOCISTUS. Supra fol.2. 



H. canum, caule suffruticoso procumbente ramoso, ranris adscen- 

 dentibus piloso-tomentosis incanis, foliis obovatis ovatis ovato-ob- 

 longis vel ellipticis pilosis supra virescentibus subtus subtomen- 

 toso-canis, racemis simplicibusdichotomisve, pedicellis calycibus- 

 que piloso-canescentibus, petalis distinctis patentibus. 



Helianthemum canum. Dunal in DC. prodr. 1. p. 277. Spreng. syst. 2. 

 p. 590. Swt. hort. brit. p. 35. 



Cistus canus. Linn. spec. 740. Jacq. aust. t. 277. 



Chamsecistus 3. Clus. hist. p. 74. ic. 



A pretty little trailing suffruticose plant : branches 

 numerous, spreading round in ail directions, short and 

 slender, tinged with red, clothed with a short downy ca- 

 nescence, and some longish hairs intermixed. Leaves 

 variable, obovate, ovate, oblongly ovate, elliptic or some- 

 times lanceolate, blunt, or the upper ones rather acute, 

 clothed with bristle-like hairs on both sides, green on 

 the upper side, but having a whitish appearance, from 

 the hairs with which the leaves are covered, underneath 

 clothed with a dense hoary tomentum, large ones three- 

 nerved from the base, or pennately veined. Petioles flat, 

 fringed, shorter than the leaves. Racemes terminal, sim- 

 ple or sometimes forked, several flowered, nodding be- 

 fore the flowers expansion. Bractes lanceolate, acute, 

 fringed. Pedicles slender, hairy, nodding before the ex- 

 pansion of the flowers, erect when in bloom, afterwards 

 reflexed. Calyx of 5 sepals, densely clothed with white 

 hairs ; 2 outer sepals small, blunt; 3 inner ones roundly 

 oval, short, concave, strongly nerved, about half the 

 length of the petals, densely clothed with spreading 

 white hairs. Petals 5, distinctly spreading, of a light 

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