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CISTUS ALPESTRIS. 
Class. Order. 
POLYANDRIA | ۰: 
There exists a good deal of confusion in 
this numerous genus. Linneus, in his time, 
complained of it, and it has since probably 
been increased. Our present species we can 
scarcely doubt is the alpestris of Allioni; 
this has been by some confounded with ser- 
pyllifolius, a sort which, according to Will- 
denow, has stipules, which ours decidedly 
has not. Others have referred it to celandi- 
cus, of which we have a specimen, which 
differs very much from it. We e this 
Plant, about the year 1792, fi 
lued friend, Baron von Zois, and have had i itin 
cultivation ever since, without perceiving in 
it the smallest variation: this is a somewhat 
singular circumstance in a family so subject 
to sport. It is a native of the Austrian Alps, 
not often growing above three or four inches 
high: with us it is easily cultivated in a 
small pot in loamy soil. It is a plant well 
adapted for rock-work, and produces its 
flowers in abundance in the spring, before 
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