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96. CAPPARIS. 



2. spiuosa. Stalks 1 -flowered, solitary. 

 L. subrotuud, retuse or very obtuse. Spines 

 uncinate. S. 5, 6. Walls and rocks. 



s. Eur. 



3. ovata. Stalks 1 -flowered, solitary. L. 

 ovate, acute. Spines uncinate. Berry pyri- 

 fonn. S. 4, 5. Clayey hills. Coasts of 

 Sic. Botzen in Tyr. 



VIII. CISTINE^. 



Sepals 3, convolute, with or mthout 2 detached exterior ones. Petals 5, crumpled, and convo- 

 lute in the opposite direction. Stamens numerous. Germen and Style single. 



97. CISTUS. 



A. Sepals 5 ; the outer narrow, erect. Style 

 cylindrical. Flowers more or less purple 

 or pinJc. 



1. incanixs. L. spatulate, wrinkled; haft 

 8 -nerved; upper narrower. Stalk 1 -flowered. 

 Cal. sillcy. sS. Stony hills. Languedoc. It. 



i8. villosus. L. broader, and passing more 

 abruptly into haft. 



2. creticus. L. spatulato-ovate, tomen- 

 toso-hairy ; margin undulate ; upper L. acmni- 

 nate. Haft nerved. Stalk short, 1 -flowered. 

 Sepals acuminate, villous. sS. 5, 6. D^-y 

 kills, s. Sic. Osero. 



sessile, oblong, somewhat 



3. albidus. 



3-nerved, flat, incano-tomentose. Mowers 

 3-8, tei-minal, somewhat umbellate, lilac. 

 sS. 4. Dry hills, mdt. Fi'. Lig. Trapaui ? 



4. crispus. L. oblongo-lanceolate, cmied, 

 3-nerved, ■\\Tinlded, do-miy. H. 3-4, nearly 

 sessile, umbellate, lilac. sS. 5, 6. Dry hills. 

 mdt. Pr. It. 



B. Sepals 5 ; the outer broadest, acuminate. 

 Stigma nearly sessile. Flower white, or 

 yellowish, 



i. Flower-stalhs naked at base. 



5. salvifolius. L. ovate, obtuse, wrinlded, 

 tomentose beneath, not ciliate, stalked. Stalks 

 hoary, 1-2-flowered, solitary, long, jointed. 

 sS. 4, 5. Dry hills, s. Em-. 



6. corbarieusis. L. somewhat cordate, 

 acuminate, ciliate, wrinkled, somewhat gluti- 

 nous, stalked. Stalks long, 1-5-flowered. sS. 

 Les Corhieres. 



7- complicatus. L. subrotundo-ovate, 

 somewhat obtuse, white mth do-wn, folded, 

 3-nerved at base. Hafts preserving an 

 even vridth. Corymb tenninal, mth about 

 three PL on very shoi-t stallcs. sS. 4, 5. I. 

 of Lampedusa. 



8. monspeliensis. L. Hneari-lanceolate, 

 8-nerved, villous on both sides, sessile. PI. in 

 a subsecund Cyme. Exterior Sepals ovato- 

 lanceolate. sS. 4, 5. Dry hills, s. Em-. 



/3. Jlorentinus. L. not quite sessile. Stalks 



about 3 -flowered. 

 7. affijiis. Exterior Sepals cordate. 



9. hirsutus. L. oval or ovate, prolonged, 

 hirsute, ciliate, sessile. Stalks 1-5-flowered. 

 Caps, small, covered wth the large, hii-sute, 

 pyi-amidate calyx. sS. Shore of Brest harbour, 

 about fom- miles below Landemeau. 



10. Liedon. L. oblongo-lanceolate, nerved, 

 smooth and shining above, viUoso-sericeous 

 beneath, sessile, connate. PI. corymboso-cy- 

 mose. Stalks and Cal. viUoso-sericeous. sS. 



Dry. 



Prov. Lang. 



ii. Flower-stalks with small, coriaceous, 

 deciduous Bracts at base. 



11. longifolius. L. on short stalks, ob- 

 longo-lanceolate, downy and undulate on 

 margin, veiny beneath. PI. in cymes. sS. 

 Barren. Donos and Pontfroide near Nar- 

 bonne. 



12. populifolius. L. stalked, cordate, 

 acuminate, serrate. PI. in cymes. Bracts 

 oblong. sS. At Pontlavuier in the Corbieres. 



13. cupanianus. " L. ovate, acuminate, 

 somewhat cordate at base, fringed on the 

 mai-gin, MMrinlded and somewhat cottony on 

 both sides ; on dilated, furrowed stalks. Stalks 

 about 3 -flowered, furnished in the upper part 

 with a solitary, lanceolate bract. Sepals vil- 

 lous. sS. 5. Open hills. Palenno. Alcamo. 

 Trapaui."— Guss. from Brest. 



C. Sepals 3. 



14. laurifolius. L. ovato-lanceolate, 3- 

 nerved, smooth above, tomentose beneath. 

 Stalks dilated at the base, connate. Caps. 

 5-ceUed, terminal. PI. in umbels. S. 6, 7- 

 Bry hills, s. Pr. 



