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HELIANTHEMUM lineare. 



Linear-leaved Sun- Rose. 



Sect. IX. EUHELIANTHEMUM. Suprafol.T. 



** Petalis albis, roseis, rubris vel dilute sulphureis. 



H. lineare, caule suffruticoso, ramis elongatis adscendentibus sub- 

 to mentoso-incanis, foliis linearibus obtusiusculis subtus canesceu- 

 tibus margine revolutis, stipulis lineari-subulatis petiolo brevio- 

 ribus, racemis laxis virgatis paucifloris, calycibus striatis glabri- 

 usculis ; nervis subviolaceis, sepalis acutis, petalis subdistinctis. 



Helianthemum lineare. Persoon. synops. 2. p. 78. n. 4. DC. prodr. 

 1. p.282. .99. Swt. hort. brit. add. p. 469. n. 93. Spreng. syst. 

 v. 2. p. 593. n. 95. 



Cistus linearis. Cavan. ic. 3. p. 8. 1. 16. 



Stem shrubby, much branched, clothed with a brown 

 glossy bark: branches ascending, crooked, very long 

 and slender, the young ones clothed with a hoary to- 

 mentum, which wears off by age. Leaves linear, blunt- 

 ish, opposite, with a longish slender petiole, the mar- 

 gins more or less revolute, underneath clothed with a 

 hoary tomentum, and having a strong prominent mid- 

 rib, the upper side when young clothed with short 

 close-pressed hairs, which gives them at that time a 

 hoary appearance ; this wears off when older, and they 

 are then green and a little glossy. Petioles pubescent. 

 Stipules small, linearly subulate, more or less hairy, 

 shorter than the petioles. Racemes terminal, loose, 

 few-flowered, clothed with a hoary tomentum, before 

 flowering curved inward, but as the flowers expand 

 becoming erect. Bractes short, lanceolate or linear, 

 clothed with short hairs. Pedicles clothed with a short 

 hoary tomentum, nodding before flowering, erect when 

 in bloom, afterwards reflexed. Calyx of 5 sepals, 

 smoothish or slightly hairy, the two outer ones very 

 small; inner ones ovate, acute, concave, striate, the 



