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HELIANTHEMUM vulgare p multiplex. 

 Common Sun-Rose, two double varieties. 



Sect. IX. EUHELIANTHEMUM. Suprafol. 7. * Petalis luteis. 



H. vulgare, caule suffruticoso procumbente ramoso ; ramis elon- 

 gatis, foliis margiue vix revolutis subtus incano-cinereis : supra 

 viridibus pilosis subciliatis : inferioribus suborbiculatis : in eel i is 

 ovato-ellipticis superioribus oblongis, stipulis oblongo-linearibus 

 ciliatis petiolo longioribus, racemis laxis, pedicellis calycibusque 

 pilosis. DC. prodr. 1. p. 280. Suprafol. 34. 



& multiplex, floribus plenis. Supra. 



* procumbens, caule procumbente. Supra Jig. 1. 



** adscendens, caule suberecto-adscendente. Supra Jig. 2. 



Differs from the common single varieties at folio 34, 

 by the flowers being double ; the largest figure in our 

 plate, which is the old double variety, differs from the 

 other in being more procumbent, and the flowers are 

 fuller ; it varies in strength and in the length of its ra- 

 cemes, also in the size of its flowers, according to the 

 strength of the plant ; when grown in small pots it 

 lays flat on the ground in a close tuft, its leaves are very 

 small, having quite a different appearance from those 

 plants that are grown out in the borders, where the 

 leaves attain four times the size, and the racemes and 

 flowers are much larger : the other variety, No. 2 of our 

 plate, which is known by the name of Mr. Lee's new 

 double yellow, is distinguished by being more erect and 

 shrubby, and the flowers do not generally expand to the 

 centre, but are there terminated by a greenish close tuft, 

 not unlike a calyx, and the plant is altogether of stron- 

 ger growth than the other ; the same difference in habit 

 we have observed in the common single varieties, when 

 growing together wild. 



