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C. Bauhine calls it Cifus famina folio falviz. 
Others, Cifus femina. Our gardeners, Female 
ciflus. 
4. Great-flowered animal Ciftus. 
Ciftus annuus flore magno. 
The root is flender, long, and inconfide- 
rable. : 
The firft leaves are oblong, broad, and obtufe, 
of a pale green, and hairy. 
The ftalk is fingle, round, erect, firm, and a 
foot and half high: it is hairy, and of a pale 
green, 
The leaves ftand in pairs at confiderable dif- 
tances: they are oblong, broad, and blunt, of a 
pale green, and hairy. 5 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks, 
and in the bofoms of the leaves: they are large 
and white. 
The feed-veffel is large, as are alfo the feeds. 
It is a native of Spain and Portugal. This is the 
only herbaceous ci/fvs that approaches to the form 
of the fhrubby kinds; but it agrees fo well with 
them.as to fhew that all efforts to feparate the 
Sorubby and dwarf cifius into two genera muft be 
fruitlefs. 
C. Bauhine calls it Cifus folio falicis. 
8. White hairy long-leaved Ciftus. 
Ciftus frutefcens albicans foliis oblongis birfutis. 
The root is large and fpreading. 
The ftems are numerous, woody, but weak ; 
three or four feet long, but generally procum- 
bent, and covered with a pale bark: the young 
twigs are very long and flender, and they are of 
a whitifh colour. 
The leaves ftand in pairs: they are oblong 
and narrow; of a greyifh green, and hairy. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the branches; 
and they are large and white.” 
The feed-veffels are large, as are alfo the 
feeds. 
It isa native of Spain, and flowers in July. ~ 
The young fhoots of this fpecies are covered 
with a fine balfamick fragrant refin. 
C. Bauhine calls it Ciftus ledon birfutum. Clu- 
fius, Ciftus ledon quartus. ‘Others, Ciftus mas 
hirfutus. 
Gye Bw iN 
9g. Common male Ciftus. 
Ciftus fore magno rubente. 
The root is large, fpreading, and woodys 
The flem is woody, firm, upright, branched, ” 
and four feet high: the branches are thick fet 
with leaves, and their bark is of a pale brown. 
The leaves are -oblong, but of a confiderable 
breadth: they ftand in pairs without any foot-- 
ftalks, and they are broadeft toward the bafe, 
whence they diminifh to a point; and are of a 
greyith green colour, and covered with a woolly 
matter: they are very foft and tender on the 
young, fhoots, but hard and rigid on fuch as are. 
older. 
The flowers ftand on flender footftalks at the 
Upper part of the branches, and are very large, 
and red. 
The feed-veffel. is roundith, and angulated ; 
and the feeds are large. 
Tt. is common in Italy, and flowers in July. 
C, Bauhine calls it Cifus mas folio oblongo in- 
cano. Our gardeners, Male ciflus. 
The plant called hypociftis, to be defcribed 
hereafter in its proper place, grows to the roots 
of this fpecies, in the fame manner as the broom. 
Tape grows to the roots of broom in our hilly, 
barren paftures. 
10. Narrow-leaved red Ciftus. 
Ciftus flore rubro magno anguftifolins, 
The root is woody and fpreading, 
The ftem is thick, woody, branched, and four 
feet high: the bark is of a pale colour, and the 
wood is brittle. 
The leaves ftand in pairs, and are very nu- 
merous: they are Jong, narrow, and of a pale 
green; fomewhat hairy, but not woolly, as thofe 
of the other fpecies, 
_ The flowers ftand on long footftalks .rifing 
from the bofoms of the leaves, and are very 
large, and of a beautiful red. ih irae 
The feed-veffels are-large and ribbed; and the 
feeds are large. ' i 
C. Bauhine calls this Ciftus mas folio oblonga 
incano. 
It is frequent in the warmer parts of Europe, 
and common in our gardens. 
Ray fufpected this to be only a variety of the 
preceding {pecies, but erroneoufly. : 
Uses IV. 
SAINT JOHN’s WORT. 
HYPERICUM 
HE flower confifts of five petals, which are equal in fize, regularly placed, and expanded: the 
feed -veffél is roundifh, and the feeds are numerous: the cup is divided into five, oval, pointed 
fegments, and remains when the flower is fallen. 
Linnzeus places this among the polyadelpbia polyandria, the threads in the flower being divided into 
feveral diftinét fets, growing together at their bafes, and growing to the receptacle. 
The ftyles, which in the reft of:this author’s method make a confiderable part: of the claffical 
charaéter, are here not mentioned ; for. this plain) reafon, that their number is too uncertain to be 
determined. In fome fpecies of this plant there are two, in others three, in others five, and in fome 
but one. 
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