fascicles of short stellate hairs. Calyx of 5 sepals; the 

 two outer ones very short, oblong, blunt, clothed with 

 a mealy pubescence ; inner ones ovate, obtuse, con- 

 cave, membranaceous, yellowish, strongly 4-nerved, 

 slightly covered with a mealy pubescence, the nerves 

 clothed with tufts of spreading hairs. Petals 5, very 

 narrow, lanceolate, acute, generally toothed or lacerate, 

 seldom entire, quite distinct and spreading, sometimes 

 scarcely as long, at other times nearly double the length 

 of the calyx, of a plain yellow colour. Stamens about 

 50, unequal in length, but very short, scarcely as long 

 as the germen : filaments smooth, yellow. Germen 

 downy. Style smooth, slender, and twisted at the base, 

 and thickened upwards. Stigma capitate, papillose. 



Specimens of this rare plant were brought to us last 

 Summer by Mr. David Don, from the garden of Mrs. 

 Dickson, of Croydon, in Surrey, where the plant had 

 been planted by the late Mr. Dickson, who discovered 

 it growing wild near that place ; but at present, we 

 believe, no person knows where to find it wild ; or it 

 has perhaps been sometimes overlooked or confused 

 with H. vulgar e : we heard of its being found last year 

 near Dartford, in Kent ; but as we have not seen speci- 

 mens of it, we are not certain if it really were the same 

 species; it is certainly a very likely situation for it: 

 we observed the flowers of it come much larger in 

 Autumn, than they did in Summer, nearly equal in 

 size to the Cistus sampsucifolius of the Botanical Ma- 

 gazine, which will most probably prove to be the same 

 species, as Dr. Sims was rather inclined to believe 

 when he published it ; or perhaps that may be a hybrid 

 production between the present and some other spe- 

 cies. The present plant is quite hardy, thriving well in 

 rock- work or by the side of a bank, where it will not 

 be killed by too much moisture ; it may also be grown 

 in pots, where it will flower very fine, and will not grow 

 so luxuriant. Cuttings, planted under hand-glasses, 

 root readily. 



