PI, ex. that, 73. CISTINEAE. 411. Helianthemum. 668 
Helianthemum vulgare, Rail Syn. 341, 1 ; Park. 656; Be Candolle FI. 
Gall. 4495. 
Helianthemum Anglicum luteum, Ger.em. 1282, 1. 
Cistus Helianthemum, Lin. S. P. 744. 
Common dwarf cistus. Little sun-flower. 
Sandy and chalky pastures ; shrubby ; July and August. 
Stem mostly simple; leaves slightly rolled back, above 
hairy, beneath clothlike, white; stipules fringed; stamens 
as long as the style, upright, bending down as soon as 
touched ; flowers gold yellow. 
6. Helianthemum tomentosum , Clothlike dwarf-cisius. 
Stem shrubby, trailing; leaves elliptical, oblong; beneath 
snowy, clothlike, hairs stellate; stipules acute. 
Cistus tomentosus, Scopoli 'FT. Cam. 1,276. 
Mountains; undershrubby; July. 
Leaves of the young shoots roundish ; hairs of the upper 
surface of the leaves simple, of the under stellate ; flower s 
large, gold yellow. 
c. Flowers white ; leaves stipuled at the base. 
7. Helianthemum polifolium. Poly-leaved dwarf-cisius. 
Stem rather shrubby, trailing ; leav-es oblong, revolute, 
beneath woolly ; hairs on both surfaces stellate. 
Helianthemum q. Chamaecistus montanus polii folio D. Plukenet, Rail 
Syn. 342, 4. 
Cistus polifolius, Lin. S. P. 741. 
Helianthemum polifolium, Be Candolle FI. Gall. 4 499. 
Rocks the sea ; undershrubby ; June and July. 
Hairs of the stem adpressed ; leaves green above, white 
beneath ; petals white, often crenulated. 
Fam. IX. 74. FRANKENIACEAL Saint Hilaire. 
Calyx persisting, 5-parted or toothed; petals 5, hypogy- 
nous, clawed, alternating with the calyx-lobes ; stamens 5 
or 6 ; ovary simple ; style 1 ; stigmata 2 or 3; capsule one- 
celled, 2 or 3-valved ; placentarium parietal ; corculum 
straight, axile ; perisperm fleshy ; radicle below, or near the 
hilum. 
412. FRANKENIA. Linnaeus. Sea-heath, 
Calyx nearly cylindrical, 5-toothed ; petal-claw channel- 
led, crenulated with a scale. 
