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HELIANTHEMUM glaucum 



Glaucous-leaved Sun-Rose. 



Sect. IX. EUHELIANTHEMUM. Suprafol.l. 

 * Petalis luteis. 



H. glaucum, caule sufFruticoso ramoso, rarnis adscendentibus tomen- 

 toso-incanis apice hispidis, foliis margine vix revolutis ciliatis 

 utrinque tomentosis subtus incanis supra viridi-glaucescentibus ; 

 inferioribus orbiculatis ; ceteris ellipticis lanceolato-oblongis, sti- 

 pulis bracteisque pubescentibus viridibus, pedicellis calycibusque 

 hirsutis, pilis albidis. DC. prodr. 1. p. 279. n. 80. 



Helianthemum glaucum. Pers. syn. 2. p. 78. Spreng. syst. 2. p. 592. 

 n. 78. Swt. hort. brit. ed. 2. p. 42. n. 72. 



Cistus glaucus. Cavan. icon. 3. p. 31. t. 261. nee Desf. 



Stem suffrutescent, erect or ascending, much branched : 

 branches spreading, ascendant, clothed with a white 

 woolly down, hairy upwards. Leaves opposite, petiolate, 

 slightly revolute at the edges, which are fringed ; densely 

 clothed on both sides with a short close woolly pubes- 

 cence, underneath white or hoary, the upper side of a 

 bluish glaucous colour : lower ones broadest, broadly 

 oval or nearly round and obtuse : the upper ones nar- 

 rower and more acute. Petioles hairy and canescent. 

 Stipules a little longer than the petioles, of a greener co- 

 lour. Racemes terminal, many-flowered, clothed with 

 soft wool and spreading hairs amongst the flowers, nod- 

 ding before expansion, afterwards becoming erect. 

 Bractes similar to the stipules. Pedicles short, woolly, 

 and bearing hairs intermixed with the wool, nodding 

 before expansion, erect when in flower, afterwards re- 

 flexed. Flowers rather small, pale yellow. Calyx of 5 

 sepals, densely woolly, and numerous hairs intermixed : 



