sidcum, Cltis. Pann. p. 88. — Park. Theatr Bot. p. 75. f. 5. — Rosmarittum sylvis- 
tre, Cam. Epit. p. 546. — Park. Thoatr. Bot. p. 75 f. 5. — Cistus Ledon folds 
rorismarini ferrugineis, Bauh. Finn. p. 467. — Cistus Ledum Silesiacum, 
Johnson’s Geravde, p. 1288. f. II. — Cistus Ledum Rorismarini folio, Johnson’s 
Gerarde, p. 1289. f. 12. 
Localities. — In marshy places; a very doubtful native. — IRELAND. 
" Detected by Sir Charles Giesfcke, Professor of Mineralogy in the University 
of Dublin, on the north-west of lieland, where it seems to be a denizen along 
with Papaver nudicaule ; for, in the immediate neighbourhood of the station 
for that plant, namely, Archilhead, Professor Gieseore took the specimen,” 
figured in the Flora Londinensis, " in a fresh state, from the hat of a fisherman. 
The fact of the plant growing amongst the wild islands of that coast cannot be 
doubted. In the more northern regions, too, of Europe and America, these two 
plants are almost always found together.” Sir VV. J. Hooker, in FI. Lond. 
Shrub. — Flowers from April to July. 
Root branched, woody, running widely and deeply into the 
ground. Stems shrubby, somewhat decumbent, slender, from 1 to 
3 feet high, branched, smooth, the younger branches only being 
covered with a close, rust-coloured down. Leaves principally in 
the younger branches, scattered, horizontal or reflexed, on short 
petioles, strap-shaped, quite entire, with revolute margins ; chan- 
nelled, smooth, and of a dark green on the upper surface ; paler on 
the under, the mid-rib clothed with close, rust-coloured down ; 
the younger leaves upright, very downy. Flowers terminal, corym- 
bose, numerous, on long, simple, upright, or somewhat spreading, 
pubescent pedicels, with egg-shaped, membranous, brown bracteas 
at their base, which are at first pubescent, soon clothed with reddish 
down, and at length nearly smooth. Calyx (see fig. 5.) small, 
permanent, 5-cleft, the segments egg-shaped, spreading, externally 
downy. Corolla (fig. 2.) white, of 5 egg-shaped, spreading, rather 
concave, nerved petals. Stamens (see fig. 2.) 10 ; filaments long, 
decumbent at the base, afterwards upright, pale purple, longer than 
the corolla ; anthers (figs. 3 & 4.) oblong, roundish at the base, 
bluntly emarginate at t’ ' ’’ e opening with a pore on 
stigma small. Capsule (figs. 5, 6, & 7.) oval, drooping, of 5 cells, 
and 5 valves. Seeds (fig. 10.) very minute, oblong, covered with a 
pellucid membrane or arillus. See FI. Lond. 
This is a small, pretty, evergreen shrub, with leaves resembling those of 
Rosmary. It is a native of Canada, in swamps, and round the mountain lakes 
of New York; in Kotzebue’s Sound, &c. ; also of the north of Europe, as of 
Denmark, Silesia, & c. Its claim to a place in this work is very slight, as it rests 
on the authority of only a single specimen having been detected in Ireland, as 
recorded above, for I have never heard of its having been found in a wild state 
in any part of Great Britain or Ireland since. It is omitted in the 4th and 5th 
editions of ” The British Flora” by Sir W. J. Hooker, but, as it had previously 
been described and figured by that eminent Botanist, in the new series of the 
•• Flora Londinensis,” and afterwards admitted into the 7th edition of Dr. 
Withering’s “ Arrangement of British Plants and also into the 1st and 2nd 
editions of Dr. Lindley’s “ Synopsis of the British Flora ;” as well as into the 
1st edition of Sir W. J. Hooker’s “ British Flora ;” I have ventured to intro- 
duce a figure and description of it here, in hope that some future Botanist may 
be fortunate enough to meet with it again, either in the station recorded for it 
above, or in some other locality in that part of the coast of Ireland. 
The leaves of this plant are used as a substitute for lea bv the Canadians in 
their hunting excursions ; and by the Norwegians it is called Finne-thi , or tea 
of the Laplanders. It is sometimes substituted lor hops; or placed among corn 
to drive away mice, and to destroy vermin on sheep and oxen. 
each side. Gcrmen 
thread-shaped, smooth ; 
