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flower. Procumbent : stipules lanceolate ; leaves oblong 

 revolute, somewhat hairy. According to Linneus, the petals 

 are suborbiculate, quite entire, yellow, generally with a tawny 

 ring surrounding the receptacle. The racemes nod before 

 they flower, and the leaves have a few hairs scattered over 

 them; germen hirsute, ovate. The usual colour of the corolla 

 is a full yellow, but it varies to lemon-colour, white, and even 

 rose-colour : it is also said to be found with a double corolla : 

 it varies likewise something in the leaves. Found in dry 

 pastures in many parts of Europe, with us generally in cal- 

 'ireous soils. Perennial: flowering from June to August. 

 Though, says Mr. Curtis, our common Dwarf Cistus cannot 

 vie with those which are the produce of warmer climates, 

 yet it is one of the most ornamental of our native plants, and 

 admirably well calculated to decorate a rock or dry bank, 

 especially if its several varieties, with white, rose, and lemon- 

 coloured flowers, be intermixed it is hardy, and easily propa- 

 gated, either by seeds or cuttings, and continues during the 

 greater part of the summer to put forth daily a multitude of 

 new blossoms. Haller mentions a variety with double flowers, 

 which would be a valuable acquisition to our gardens, if it 

 could be obtained. 



45. Cistus Mutabilis ; Changeable Cistus. Procumbent : 

 stipules lanceolate; leaves oblong, smooth, flat. Stems several, 

 branching very much, woody at bottom, and the size of a 

 common quill, procumbent and brown : from these spring 

 annually numerous, smooth, ascending branches, about a foot 

 in length ; petals obovate, sharp at the base, pale yellow, or 

 rose-coloured ; stamina entirely yellow ; seeds few, brown. 

 It flowers in May and June, and the seeds ripen in July. 



46. Cistus Hirtus; Rosemary -leaved Cistus. Leaves ovate; 

 calices hispid. Stem erect, sending out many side-branches, 

 with the joints pretty close; leaves very narrow, opposite, 

 revolute, the upper surface of a lucid green, and the under 

 hoary ; flowers large, white, in small clusters at the ends of 

 the branches. Allioni observes, that the calix is whitish ; that 

 it has nothing rough or hairy about it; and that it is a very 

 distinct species. Native of the south of France, and near 

 Villafranca in Spain. 



47. Cistus Apenninus ; Apennine Cistus. Spreading : 

 leaves lanceolate, rough with hairs. It is a foot in height, 

 branching, and spreading; leaves green, and rough with hairs 

 on the upper surface, on the lower hoary. Mr. Miller makes 

 two species of this, and describes them : 1. with stalks much 

 longer than those of the 44th species; the leaves longer and 

 hoary ; the racemes much longer; the calix hairy and whitish; 

 and the corollas white and larger : 2. the stems more erect ; 

 the leaves not so long; the stipules very small; and the whole 

 plant very hoary; the flowers are white, the spikes shorter 

 and more compact. Native of the Apennines, and of Italy. 



48. Cistus Polifolius ; Mountain Cistus. Procumbent : 

 leaves oblong-ovate, hoary ; calices even ; petals serrate. 

 Branches many, spreading on the ground, hoary towards the 

 end, towards the base brownish, with frequent joints, and 

 naked, most of them a hand in length, but the inner and 

 yqunger branches much shorter ; leaves thickish, somewhat 

 stiff, revolute, having a prominent rib underneath, hoary fre- 

 quently, with others much smaller growing from the axils ; 

 flowers few, terminal, of the same form and size with those of 

 the common sort, or Dwarf Cistus, but white; petals slightly 

 crenate, generally cordate. In a garden, the leaves become 

 larger, lose their hoariness, and turn green and hairy ; flower- 

 ing branches ascending, white ; leaves opposite. First re- 

 marked by Plukenet, on Brent-down in Somersetshire, near 

 the Severn sea ; and found by Dillenius in the same place, on 

 the middle of the hill. Native also of the south of Europe. 



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49. Cistus Arabicus ; Arabian Cistus. Procumbent : leaves 

 linear, those on the peduncles alternate, those on the branchy 

 lets crowded. This plant is a foot high, suffruticose, and 

 diffused. Native of Spain. 



****** Species not in the Sy sterna Vegetabilum. 



50. Cistus Medius. Leaves ovate, lanceolate, wrinkled, 

 petioled, toothletted. Stems reddish, viscid ; leaves green; 

 peduncles solitary, axillary, and terminal ; corolla pale yel- 

 low ; no stipules ; shrubby. Grows in the county of Nice. 



51. Cistus Grandiflorus ; Great-flowered Cistus. Stipuled, 

 s'iffruticose : leaves lanceolate, villose on both sides, acumi- 

 nate ; stipules longer than the calix. Stem villose, about six 

 inches high ; leaves an inch long ; flowers in racemes ; 

 peduncles and calices villose ; the smaller leaflets of the calix 

 linear, the others twice as long : petals yellow, rounded, 

 almost half an inch in length Found in Carniolaand Pied- 

 mont. 



52. Cistus Breviorifolius ; Short-leaved Cistus. Shrubby, 

 without stipules : leaves ovate-lanceolate, connate, hirsute, 

 wrinkled ; peduncles longer. _ This species differs from the 

 second and eighth species, in having shorter and greener 

 leaves, which are joined at the base, and hairy; the pedun- 

 cles are much longer, and the flowers smaller, but of a deeper 

 purple. It flowers and seeds at the same time with them, 

 and the shrubs grow as large as those of the second species. 

 Native of Portugal. 



53. Cistus Lusitanicus. Shrubby, without stipules : leaves 

 ovate, obtuse, villose, nerved, and wrinkled underneath; 

 flowers larger; the branches are white and hairy; and the 

 flowers of a light purple colour, and very large. 



54. Cistus Hispanicus. Shrubby, without stipules, villose: 

 leaves lanceolate, green, connate ; flowers sessile ; calices 

 acute. The flowers are of a deep purple colour. 



55. Cistus Cordifolius. Shrubby, without stipules : leaves 

 oblong-cordate, smooth ; petioles longer. It rises with a 

 smooth shrubby stalk four or five feet high, sending out many 

 slender woody branches, covered with a smooth brown b'ark, 

 with oblong heart-shaped leaves, which are smooth, and have 

 long footstalks. The flowers are produced at the ends of 

 the branches, standing upon pretty long peduncles ; they are 

 white, and appear in June, July, and August, but rarely pro- 

 duce any seeds in England. 



56. Cistus Fasciculatus. Leaves in bundles. Stem shrub- 

 by, about nine inches high; leaves very narrow and fine, 

 growing in clusters. The flowers come out from the sides 

 and at the ends of the branches, on slender peduncles ; they 

 are of a pale straw-colour, and it is seldom longer than two 

 lours before the petals fall off. This plant seldom continues 

 more than two years. Native of the Cape. 



57. Cistus Vaginatus ; Oblong-leaved Cistus. Arborescent, 

 without stipules : leaves oblong, hairy underneath, netted- 

 wrinkled ; petioles united at the base, sheathing, furrowed. 

 [t flowers from April to June. Found in the island of Tene- 

 riffe by Masson. 



58. Cistus Laxus ; Broad Waved- leaved Cistus. Arbor- 

 escent, without stipules ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, waved, 



oothletted, smooth, the upper rough with hairs ; calicine 

 .eaflets roundish-cordate. It flowers in June and July. 

 Native of Spain and Portugal. 



59. Cistus Scabrosus ; Rough Cistus. Undershrubby, 

 without stipules ; leaves opposite, ovate, hairy and rugged, 

 ;hree-nerved ; calices three-leaved. Stems decumbent, round, 

 closely beset with short stellated hairs, and rugged; branches 

 short; leaves subpetioled, an inch in length ; flowers termi- 

 nating, subpanicled. It flowers in June and July. Native of 

 Italy and Portugal. 



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