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OISTfNE* 



either smaller or wanting ; pdah 5 ; sianiois numerous ; ovules 



many ; capsule 3-valved. (Name from tlie Greek hclws, the sun, 



and antlifls, a flower, because the flowers^ expand in the sunshine,) 



I. // ChatHisdstus (Common Roclv-Rose).— A beautiful little 



prostrate undershrub ; l-d'^es with fringed stipules, oblong, green 

 above, hoary beneath ; fluwers in bracteate racemes, 1 inch across, 

 yellow; the two outer ,ft/r?A- very small, .the inner apiculate ; the 

 stamens, if pinched, spread out, and lie down on the petals.— Dry 

 places ; common. — Fl. July — September. Perennial. 



There are four other British species oiHelidntheiuuin, which are 

 all of local occurrence, and rare : H. (:;iittdtuin (Spotted Rock- 

 Rose), a herbaceous annual, with ebracteate yellow_//('K'<v,f, with a 

 blood-red spot at the base of each petal, found in Cork and the 



