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CISTUS. 



THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



kinds. Its white flowers are only of me- 

 dium size, but shapely, and prettily spotted 

 with crimson towards the centre. 



C. salvifolius (Sage-leaved Rock Rose}. 

 A variable kind, and of slender habit, 

 with Sage-like leaves, and long-stalked, 

 white, yellow-blotched flowers. In a wild 

 state it is found all along the Mediter- 



haps, any other Cistus, and form a dense, 

 brush-like tuft, overtopped by the long 

 style. 



C. villosus, a Mediterranean kind, a 

 variable and erect bush with firm-textured 

 leaves. The flowers of all the forms are 

 rose-coloured, with long styles. C. undu- 

 latus is a variety with wavy-margined 



Cistus ladaniferus. 



ranean, and a number of slightly varying 

 forms have received distinctive names, 

 but do not appear to have been intro- 

 duced to gardens. 



C. vaginatus is the largest of the red- 

 flowered kinds ; robust, with large-stalked, 

 hairy leaves, and large, deep rose-coloured 

 yellow-centred flowers. The stamens are 

 more numerous in this than in, per- 



leaves, C. incanns represents what may 

 be regarded as the common typical form. 

 C. creticus is another with deeper rose- 

 red flowers than those already men- 

 tioned. 



CLADIUM. C. Mariscus is a vigorous 

 native fen plant, 2 to 6 ft. high, in flower 

 crowned with dense, close chestnut- 

 coloured panicles, sometimes 3 ft. in 



