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HELIANTHEMUM vulgare 



Common Sun- Rose. 



Sect. IX. EUHELIANTHEMUM. Supra, fol. 7. 

 * Petalis luteis. 



H. vulgare , caule suffruticoso procurabente ramoso ; ramis elonga- 

 tis, foliis margine vix revolutis subtus incano-cinereis : supra vi- 

 ridibus pilosis subciliatis : inferioribus suborbiculatis : mediis 

 ovato-ellipticis superioribus oblongis, stipulis oblongo-linearibus 

 ciliatis petiolo longioribus, racemis laxis, pedicellis calycibusque 

 pilosis. DC. prodr. 1. p. 280. 



Helianthemum vulgare. Gtzrt. fruct. 1. t. 76. Pers. syn. 2. p. 79. 

 Swt. hort. sub. lond. p. 124. Hort. brit. p. 35. n. 61. 



Cistus Helianthemum. Linn. spec. 1. p. 744. Flor. dan. t. 101. 

 Sm. eng. bot. 1321. 



Stems suffruticose, procumbent, very much branched : 

 branches spreading in all directions, ascending, elon- 

 gated, slightly hairy, the upper part clothed with a 

 hoary tomentum . Leaves very variable, petiolate ; lower 

 ones nearly round or broadly ovate, and bluntly round- 

 ed : middle ones ovately elliptic or oblong ; upper ones 

 elongated, oblong, or lanceolate, acute, slightly revo- 

 lute at the margins, upper side green and hairy, and 

 punctated with numerous minute dots, which occa- 

 sions a roughness, underneath clothed with a close- 

 pressed dense white tomentum : the margins more or 

 less ciliate. Petioles slender, clothed with close-pressed 

 hairs. Stipules leaf-like, linearly lanceolate, acute, hairy 

 and fringed, sometimes about the length of the petioles 

 and sometimes double the length, upper ones longest 

 and broadest. Racemes terminal, loose, many -flowered, 

 nodding and involute before the expansion of the flow- 

 ers, afterwards becoming erect. Bractes lanceolate, 

 shorter than the stipules, hairy and fringed, from half 

 to one-third the length of the pedicles. Pedicles clothed 



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