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HELIANTHEMUM serpyllifolium. 



Serpyllum-leaved Sun-Rose. 



Sect, IX. EUHELIANTHEMUM. Suprafol.l. 

 * Petalis luteis. 



H. serpyllifolium, caule suffruticoso procumbente ramosissimo : ra- 

 mis adscendentibus basi glabris apice pilosiusculis, foliis oblongo- 

 ellipticis margine subrevolntis subtus toraentoso-incanis ; supra 

 intense viridibus nitidis primum pilosiusculis dein glabris, stipulis 

 bracteisque viridibus ciliatis, calycibus acuminatis hyalinis canes- 

 centibus pube subinconspicua : nervis parce pilosis, petalis dis- 

 tinctis patentissimis. 



Helianthemum serpyllifolium. MilL diet. n. 8. DC.prodr. 1. p. 280. 

 Spreng. syst. veg. 2. p. 593. Swt. hort. brit. p. 35. w. 60. 



Stem suffruticose, procumbent, very much branched : 

 branches crowded, spreading round in all directions, 

 the points ascending, smooth and glossy on the lower 

 part, and warted here and there, the upper part slightly 

 hairy on the young shoots. Leaves opposite, crowded, 

 generally distichously spreading and imbricate, flat, or 

 the margins slightly revolute, underneath clothed with 

 a dense white tomentum, the upper side smooth, of a 

 glossy green, hairy while young, the margins more or 

 less fringed with rather distant hairs, which are some- 

 times singly, and sometimes in small tufts : lower leaves, 

 and those on the small branches, roundly oval, blunt- 

 ish : upper ones, and those on the long shoots, oblongly 

 elliptic, or elliptically lanceolate, more acute. Petioles 

 shorter than the stipules, slightly pubescent. Stipules 

 green, linear, acute, very much fringed with long bristly 

 hairs. Racemes terminal, several-flowered, nodding be- 

 fore the expansion of the flowers, afterwards lengthen- 

 ing out and erect. Bractes linear, resembling the sti- 



