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BRITISH WILD FLOWERS. 
Another poet has described this flower in the following pretty lines 
“ Yet though thy golden flowers fall fast, 
Long ere appears the evening crescent, 
Another hloom succeeds the last, 
As lovely and as evanescent.” 
2.— THE COMMON WHITE CISTUS. (Helianthemum apenninum, Dec.) 
Synonymf.s, —H. polifolium, Hook.; Cistus polifolius, Lin. 
Engravings. —Eng. Bot., t. 1322 ; 2nd ed., t. 762 ; and our fig. 
2, in PI. 14. 
Specific Character. —Hoary in every part. Leaves opposite, 
ovate-ohlong or oblong-linear, hoary on each side, more or less revo¬ 
lute at the edge. Racemes terminal, with bractese. Sepals five, the 
inner furrowed and scarious at the edge. Style bent at the base, some¬ 
what clavate at the apex. Seeds black. ( Bentham .) 
Description, &c. —This very beautiful little shrub closely resembles the common Cistus, except in the colour 
of its flowers, which are of a pure white. It is rather rare, being found only in Somersetshire and Devonshire; 
though it grows in great abundance in the latter county on the rocks near Torquay, quite close to the sea. 
THE HOARY CISTUS. (H. canum, Dunal.) 
This is a rare species, which has only been found on rocks in the north of England, and in Wales. It is a 
dwarf shrub, not above three or four inches high, with small, bright yellow flowers. 
THE SPOTTED CISTUS. (H. guttatum, Miller.) 
This is an annual species which has only been found in the Isle of Man, and in Jersey. The flowers are small, 
and of a bright yellow, with a brownish, purple spot at the base of each petal. 
THE COMMON ANNUAL CISTUS. (H. ledifolium, Willd.) 
This has only been found on the Somersetshire shore of the Bristol Channel. The flowers are very small, 
and fall as soon as they expand ; but the plant is easily known by its large, triangular, glossy capsules. 
THE DOTTED-LEAVED CISTUS. (H. suruejanum, Miller.) 
This species, which is supposed by some to be only an accidental variety of H. vulgare , has been found at 
Croydon in Surrey, and on the Sussex Downs. 
CHAPTER IX. 
THE SUN-DEW FAMILY. (Droserace^, Dec.) 
Character of the Order.— Sepals five, persistent, equal, with an 
imbricate aestivation. Petals five, liypogynous. Stamens distinct, 
withering, either equal in number to the petals and alternate with them, 
or 2, 3, or 4 times as many. Ovarium single ; styles 3—5, either 
wholly distinct, or slightly connected at the base, bifid or branched. 
Capsule of one or three cells, and three or five valves, which bear the 
placenta; either in the middle or at their base. Seeds either naked or 
furnished with arillus. Embryo straight, erect, in the axis of a fleshy 
or cartilaginous albumen. Delicate herbaceous plants, often covered 
with glands. Leaves alternate, with stipulary cilia; and a circinate 
vernation. Peduncles, when young, circinate. ( Lindley.) 
Description, &c. —There is only one genus in this order. 
