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C I S 



THE UNIVERSAL HERBAL; 



CIS 



and nearly half an inch broad in the middle ; but in a poore 

 soil they do not attain to half that height ; the leaves are 

 much narrower, and the seed-vessels not half so large 

 When cultivated in a garden, they are not found to differ 

 It is annual : native of the south of France and Italy 

 and also found near Smyrna by Dr. William Sherard. 



29. Cistus Salicifolius ; Willow-leaved Annuul Cistus 

 Spreading, villose : flowers racemed, erect ; pedicels hori- 

 zontal ; capsules longer than the calix ; petals yellow 

 smaller than the calix, and extremely fugacious. It varie: 

 with apetalous flowers. Native of Spain and Portugal. 

 Monte Baldo, near Verona, and in the county of Nice. It is 

 also found in sandy pastures, near Bream downs in Somer- 

 setshire. Annual ; flowering in June and July. 



30. Cistus Niloticus. Erect, subtomentose : flowers 

 racemed, solitary, sessile, opposite-leaved. Stem somewhat 

 woody, a foot high, round ; branches next the root ascend- 

 ing, shorter on the stem towards the top, alternate, erect, 

 few ;- flowers alternate, accompanied with a leaf, and two 

 stipules, like the stem-leaves ; petals yellow. Annual ; and 

 a native of Egypt. 



31. Cistus ^Egyptiacus ; Egyptian Cistus. Erect : leaves 

 linear-lanceolate, petioled: calices inflated, larger than the 

 corolla. Root annual, putting out one stem only, which is 

 erect, but not able to support the weight of the fruits j leaves 

 shining, thickish, furrowed on the upper surface, where the 

 nerve is below, sublinear, drawing to a point at each end ; 

 on each side the petiole is a subulate stipule ; peduncles 

 solitary; flowers drooping, and without scent; petals lanceo- 

 late, yellow, very short, included. Native of Egypt. 



***** H'ith Stipules, undershrubby. 



32. Cistus Squamatus. Leaves covered with orbiculate 

 scales. Branches rather erect, at bottom four-cornered ; 

 leaves oval-lanceolate, thickish, petioled, opposite, or else 

 three on each side ; stipules very minute, racemose, marces- 

 cent, sessile ; peduncles round, crowded. The whole plant 

 is covered with orbiculate scales, depressed in the centre. 

 Observed by Loefling, in Spain. 



33. Cistus Lippii. Erect: leaves alternate and opposite, 

 lanceolate, rugged; spikes directed one way. Stem round, 

 pubescent, whitish, bifid or sparingly branched ; branches 

 below the forking of the stem, lateral, simple, white; leaves 

 petioled, bluntish, spreading, hoary underneath ; flowers 

 sessile, crowded ; petals obovate, yellow, scarcely larger 

 than the calix ; stamina usually ten, shorter than the petals ; 

 germen pubescent ; fruits obtuse, covered with the calix, 

 sessile, roundish. The wild plant has the branches and leaves 

 hoary on both sides. The younger leaves of the axils are 

 rcvolute ; stipules bristle-shaped; calices hairy, silky. 

 Native of Egypt, near Alexandria, &c. 



34. Cistus Surreianus ; Small-Jlowered Cistus. Procum- 

 bent : leaves ovate-oblong, somewhat hairy; petals lanceo- 

 late. Mr. Hudson and others consider this as a mere variety 

 of the common sort; the only material difference being in 

 the shape of the petals. Dillenius, on the contrary, who cul- 

 tivated it at Eltham, and observed it in many other gardens, 

 and Miller, who cultivated it above thirty years, and never 

 found it to vary from seed, do not heskate to pronounce it a dis- 

 tinct species. It was first discovered near Croydon in Surry. 



35. Cistus Nummularius. Lower leaves orbiculate, upper 

 ovate. Stems long, trailing.and dividing into many branches; 

 leaves veined, of a light green on their upper side, but of a 

 greyish colour beneath, with three narrow erect stipules at 

 their base. The flowers are pretty large, white, and grow in 

 clusters at the ends of the branches. Found by Magnol, on 

 Mount Capouladon, near Montpellier. 



36. Cistus Canariensis ; Canary Cistus. Procumbent : 

 leaves subovate, alternate, and opposite ; racemes erect. 

 Root perennial ; stems shrubby, erect, or ascending, round, 

 scabrous, a span high, branched ; leaves quite entire, glau- 

 cous, thickish, villose, and somewhat scabrous, flat, obtuse, 

 petioled ; stipules linear, lanceolate, erect ; racemes opposite 

 to the leaves, and terminating with many flowers pointing 

 one way ; bractes linear ; stamina entirely yellow ; petals 

 roundish, yellow, obtuse, spreading very much, a little 

 longer than the calix. It flowers from June to August ; the 

 blossoms expand only in the morning. Native of Fuerta- 

 ventura, one of the Canary Islands. 



37. Cistus Fcctidus. Procumbent : stipules lanceolate, 

 leaves oblong, rugged. Root perennial ; stems somewhat 

 shrubby at bottom, but the branches annual. The branches 

 leaves, racemes, and calices, are beset with scabrous villose 

 hairs; the petals are rounded, white, or sometimes very pale 

 yellow, with a yellow base ; stamina yellow. It has a strong 

 smell like Bryony. 



38. Cistus Serpyllifolius ; Wild Thyme-leaved Cistus. Leaves 

 oblong ; calices even. Stems shrubby and crooked, covered 

 with a purplish brown bark, like common heath ; branches 

 slender ; leaves narrow and stiff, like those of Thyme, they 

 are opposite, and have no stipule at their base. The flowers, 

 which are of a pale yellow colour, are produced on naked 

 peduncles, terminating the branches in a sort of umbel. 

 Native of the Alps, and of Austria. It flowers from May to 

 September. 



39. Cistus Glutinosus ; Clammy Cistus. Leaves linear, 

 opposite, and alternate ; peduncles villose, glutinose. Root 

 woody, small, creeping much ; stems many, a long span in 

 height, straightish, at bottom woody and branched, but at 

 length solitary, more slender, round, green, naked at top, 

 villose, and glutinous, with very short spreading hairs ; ra- 

 cemes few-flowered ; peduncles longer than the flower, glu- 

 tinous, villose ; corolla yellow, a little longer than the calix. 

 Native of the south of Europe. 



40. Cistus Thymifolius ; Thyme-leaved Cistus. Procum- 

 bent : leaves oval-linear, opposite, very short, heaped. The 

 eaves much resemble those of Thyme, but they are harder, 



and a little whiter. Nativeof the south of France, and Spain. 



41. Cistus Pilosus ; Hairy Cistus. Almost upright : leaves 

 inear, with two grooves underneath, hoary ; calices even. 



Stems somewhat erect ; bractes solitary, at the side of the 

 jedicels. The white colour of the corolla varies exceedingly ; 

 ind, in the garden, the same plant will have white, sulphu- 

 reous, and rose-coloured flowers. It is also not uncommon 

 on the maritime hills of the county of Nice, with rose-coloured 

 lowers. Nativeof the south of France, Spain, and Piedmont. 



42. Cistus Racemosus. Leaves linear; calices racemed, 

 winting one way, nerved, angular, smooth. This is a weak 



shrub, half a foot in height ; the branches numerous, remotely 



muricated from the fallen leaves, tomcntose and hoary at top; 

 eaves opposite, on very short petioles, narrow, about an inch 

 ong, revolute, tomentose and whitish underneath, green 



above ; the flowers in terminating, solitary, very long, pen- 

 lulous racemes, all directed one way ; without any bractes. 



Native of Spain. 



43. Cistus Angustifolius. Diffused : leaves lanceolate ; 

 calices hirsute. Root perennial, branched ; stem round, 



-ranched from the base, woody ; the younger branches, with 

 he leaves, stipules, and racemes, slightly villose and In 

 tipules four, subulate, sharp; petals yellow, with an orange- 

 nlourcd base, either quite entire, or crenulate about the 

 'dge ; capsule hirsute, ovate. 



44. Cistus I lelianthemum ; Dwarf Cisltu, or Little Suif 



