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scarce. Usually the flowering time is in August, but 

 frequently in the first weeks of October the pretty flowers 

 are still full of beauty. It is of bushy habit, from 4 feet 

 to 5 feet high, with oblong leaflets, in number from twenty 

 to thirty-five, which are pea-green above and downy on the 

 undersides. Flowers bright red, and produced in axillary 

 racemes, and longer than the leaves. It is perfectly hardy, 

 and grows freely in porous decomposed leaf-soil. 



H. microcalyx (Himalayas, 1877) is a sub-shrub with 

 violet-red flowers. 



Heimia. See Nesaea." 



Helianthemum (Cistineae). 



Helianthemum atripicifolium. — Spain, 1569. The 

 branches of this species are white from tomentum, with 

 broadly-ovate stalked leaves and large yellow flowers. 



H. Halimifolidm. — Spain, 1656. This species is of 

 erect habit, 3 feet or 4 feet high, and with leaves reminding 

 one of those of the Sea Purslane. It is an evergreen, 

 and has large bright-yellow flowers, slightly spotted at 

 the base of the petals. 



H. l^vipes (syn Cistus Icevipes). — South-Western Europe. 

 A dwarf shrub, with Heath-like leaves, and yellow flowers 

 that are produced in great abundance. 



H. lasianthtjm (syns H. formoswm and Cistus formosus). 

 — Spain and Portugal, 1780. ThiB is a beautiful species, 

 but not hardy unless in the South and West. It has large, 

 bright-yellow flowers, with a deep reddish-purple blotch 

 at the base of each petal. 



H. lavendulj3Folium has Lavender-like leaves, with 

 the under surface hoary, and yellow flowers. A native 

 of the Mediterranean regions, and introduced in 1817. 



H. libonates. — This species bears dark-green Eose- 

 mary-like leaves, and yellow flowers that are produced 

 very abundantly. South Europe. 



