214 POLYANDRIA — MONOGYNIA. \_Tilia. 



the Cistus Nilot'icus of Linnrens ; his C. ledif alius being glabrous, and 

 probably the cultivated state of the plant. 



4. H. vulgdre, Gaert. {common Rock-rose); shrubby procum- 

 bent stipuled, leaves opposite ovate or oblong- nearly flat green 

 above, racemes terminal bracteated, cal. -leaves 5, the inner fur- 

 rowed and scariose at the edge, style bent at the base, some- 

 what clavate at the apex, seeds black. Benth. — Lindl. Si/n. p. 

 37. — Cistus Helianthemum, L. — E. Bot. t. 1321. — C.tomento- 

 sus, E. Bot. t. 2208. — \3. petals lanceolate, often cut. Cistus 

 Surrejajius, L. 9—E. Bot. t. 2207 ? 



Frequent in dry pastures, especially in a gravelly or chalky soil. — jS. 

 Croydon, Surrey. Fl. July, Aug. 11 • — I a™ indebted for specimens of 

 the Croydon ))lant to my friend 3Ir Christy, who proves it by culture 

 to be a var. or rather a monstrosity of H. vidgare, Nvith imperfect ;>e^a/s. 

 Mr Borrer observes that the garden plant oi E. Bot. is different, but he 

 knows not to which it should be referred, 



5. H. polifdlium, (ivhite Mountain Rock-rose); shrubby pro- 

 cumbent stipuled hoary, leaves opposite ovato-oblong or ob- 

 longo-linear more or less revolute at the edge, racemes termi- 

 nal bracteated, cal. -leaves 5, the inner furrowed and scariose at 

 the edge, style bent at the base, somewhat clavate at the apex, 

 seeds black. Benth. — //. Apennbuini, DC— Lindl. Sijn. p. 37. 

 — Cistus poli^olius, L. — E. Bot. t. 1322. 



Rare ; in the south of England. Brean downs, Somersetshire ; Torquay 

 and Babbicombe rocks. Fl.inXy, Aug. IJ!. — Flowers \\\\ii&. The H.poli- 

 folium of DC. is not the plant of Linn., but the splendens of Lamarck. 



7. TiLiA. Linn. Lime. 



1. T.*Eurovcea, L. {common Lime or Lijiden-tree); nectaries 

 none, leaves twice the length of the footstalks quite glabrous 

 except a woolly tuft at the origin of each vein beneath, cymes 

 many-flowered, fruit coriaceous downy. E. Bot. t. 610. — T. 

 intermedia, DC. 



Woods and hedge-rows, probably not indigenous. Fl. July. T^ . — 

 A large and handsome tree ; its flowers, " at dewy eve distilUng odours," 

 yellowish-green, on a stalked cyme, springing from a large lanceolate 

 foliaceous bractea, which falls off with the fructified cymes. Fruit 

 generally 1-c.elled and I-seeded. — Linnaeus is said to have derived his 

 own name from the Swedish Lin, our Linden or Lime-tree. 



2. T.'*grandif6lia,'Ej\\Y\\. (broad-leaved doivjij/ Lime-tree); nec- 

 taries none, leaves downy especially beneath, origin of the veins 

 woolly, branches hairy, umbels 3-flowered, fruit woody downy 

 turbinate with prominentangles. Forst. inE. Bot. Stippl. t. 27-20. 



Woods and hedges, in several places ; scarcely wild. Blair in Athol, 

 Scotland. Near Edinburgh. Fl. June, July. Tj . 



3. T.* 2Jarvif6lia, Ehrh. [small-leaved Lime-tree); nectaries 

 none, leaves smooth above, glaucous beneath with scattered as 

 well as axillary hairy blotches, flowered, fruit roundish brittle 

 nearly glabrous. Sm. E. Bot. t. 1705. — T. tnicrophylla, Veiit. 



Woods in Essex, Lincolnshire;, &c. Fl. Aug. Tj . 



