10 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



lon^ as llic iiinor sopals, Avith the valves ciliated at tlic edge. 

 iSlcjus grey with stellate pubescence. 



I am indebted to Mr. J. G. Baker for pointing out to me that the 

 Tecsdale ])laut is U. vineale, Pers. It has the leaves nearly wholly 

 green on the upper surface, while in the ordinary form they arc 

 more or less grey. The Galway plant is very much more luxuriant 

 than any specimens I have seen, with the petals fully twice as long 

 as the sepals, which have numerous spreading wiiite hairs ; the 

 leaves are broad and nearly destitute of felted stellate pubescence 

 above. The European II. Oclandicum, Wahln., II. Italicum, I'crs., 

 and 11. canum, appear to be only sub-species at the utmost. 



Iloary Bock-Rose. 



French, IlClian'Iieme JJlanchdtre. 



Sub-Genls III.— EU-IIELIANTHEMUM. Dtiiial. 



Petals much longer than the sepals. Stamens numerous, all 

 fertile. Style elongate, l)ent ujiwards. Euniculus thickened 

 upwards. Embryo beut, with the cotyledons straight, parallel to 

 the radicle. 



SPECIES III.— HE LI ANTHEM UM VULGARE. Gwrbi. 



Plate CLXVIII. 



Jleick Tc. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. III. Cist. Tab. XXX. Fig. 4547. 

 Cistus lleliiiuthenumi, Linn. Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 1321. 

 Cistus tomento&us, /b'co^). Sm. Eug. Bot. No. 2208. 



Hoot perennial. Stems shrubby, procumbent, much branched. 

 Leaves opposite, shortly stalked, oval, elliptical, oblong, or strap- 

 shaped, nearly Hat, generally clothed with a felt of Avhite stellate 

 pubescence underneath and more or less numerous scattered white 

 hairs on the upper surface and margins and on the midrib beneath. 

 Stipules lanceolate-linear, ciliated. Inner sepals nearly three times 

 as long as the two outer ones, obtuse, apiculate, nearly destitute of 

 stellate pubescence, with distinct ribs clothed with w'oolly hairs, 

 but no black dots. Petals much longer than the sepals, yellow 

 coucolorous. 



On hilly pastures and rocks, preferring calcareous soils and such 

 as arc formed by the debris of trap rocks. Common, extending as 

 far north as Ross-shire and Lanarkshire in Scotland, where it is 

 most common on the eastern side. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Shrub. Summer and Autumn. 



Uootstock thickened and woody, giving otT much branched 

 ■woody stems terminating in ascending herbaceous floMcring shoots 



