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THE CISTUS FAMILY. 



Fig. 115. 



cemes loose, with small flowers on slender 

 pedicels. Petals very fugacious, yellow, 

 either with or without a dark spot at their 

 base, varying also in size, and in their 

 edges entire or jagged. 



In pastures, fields, and waste places, 

 ver} 7- common in western and southern 

 Europe, extending northward through 

 France to the Channel Islands, and 

 southern Ireland, and reappearing on 

 the Holyhead mountain in Anglesea. 

 Fl. summer. The Anglesea specimens 

 are rather stunted, with the leaves 

 broader than usual, and have been pub- 

 lished as a species under the name of H. 

 JBreweri, 



2. Hoary Rockcist. Helianthemum canum, Dun. (Fig. 116.) 

 (Cistus marifolius, Eng. Bot. t. 396.) 



A much smaller and more compact 

 undershrub than the common It. The 

 leaves much smaller, seldom 6 lines long, 

 white underneath, or sometimes on both 

 sides, and all without stipules. Hacemes 

 numerous and short, with small bracts 

 at the base of the pedicels. Flowers 

 yellow, very much smaller than in the 

 common It. 



In rocky, hilly districts, in central, 

 western, and south-western Europe, 

 from southern Sweden to Spain. Bather 

 rare in Britain, on limestone rocks in 

 western and north-western England, and 

 in the isle of Arran on the coast of Ire- 

 land. Fl. summer. 





Fig. 116. 



3. Common Rockcist. Helianthemum vulgare, Gsertn. 

 (Fig. 117.) 



{Cistus Helianthemum, Eng. Bot. t. 1321. C. tomentosus, Eng. Bot. 

 t. 2208. RocJc-rose ) 



A low, diffuse undershrub, with a short, much branched, woody 



