C I S T U S. 
j?Kr, as it is commonly painted. The feed-veffels are alfo 
[mailer. It was difcovered by Edward Du-Bois, near 
Croydon in Surry. Mr. Hudfon and others confider this 
as a mere variety of the common fort; the only material 
difference being in the (liape of the petals: Dillenius on 
the contrary, who cultivated it at Eltham, and obferved 
it in many other gardens 5 and Miller who cultivated it 
above thirty years, and never found it to vary from feed ; 
do not helitate to pronounce it a diftinft fpecies. 
35. Ciftus-nummularius: lower leaves orbiculate, up¬ 
per ovate. Stems long, trailing, and dividing into many 
branches ; leaves veined, of a light green on their upper 
fide, but of a greyilh colour beneath, with three narrow 
ereft llipules at their bafe. The flowers are pretty large, 
white, and grow in clufters at the ends of the branches. 
Found by Magnol, on mount Capouladon near Mont¬ 
pellier; John Bauhin had it from Bafil. 
36. Ciftus Canarienfis, or Canary ciftus : procumbent; 
leaves fubovate, alternate and oppofite; racemes ere£t. 
Root perennial; Items fhrubby, eredt or afcending, round, 
Icabrous, a fpan high, branched. It flowers from June 
to Augull ; the bloffoms expand only in the morning. 
Native of Fuertaventura, one of the Canary illands; 
whence it was fent to Jacquin by Fr. Mafi'on. 
37. Ciftus fcetidus: procumbent; llipules lanceolate; 
leaves oblong, rugged. Root perennial; branches, annual. 
Branches, leaves, racemes, and calyxes, bel'et with fca- 
brous villofe hairs. It has a llrong fin ell like bryony ; 
and approaches to ciftus mutabilis, in habit, time of flow¬ 
ering and fruiting, and in the form of the capfule. 
38. Ciftus ferpyllifolius, or wild thyme-leaved ciftus s 
leaves oblong; calyxes even. Stems flirubby and crooked, 
covered with a purplilh brown bark like common heath ; 
branches (lender 5 leaves narrow and ftiff, like thofe of 
thyme : they are oppofite, and have no ftipule at their 
bafe. “ If fo,” obferves Martyn in his edition of Miller’s 
Gardener’sDidlionary, “it does not belong to this fedtion.” 
The flowers are produced on naked peduncles, terminat¬ 
ing the branches in a fort of umbel ; they are of a pale 
yellow colour. Native of the Alps of Aultria; cultivated 
in 1759, by Mr. Miller ; it flowers from May to September. 
39. Ciftus glutinofus, or clammy ciftus : leaves linear, 
Oppofite, and alternate; peduncles villofe, glutinofe. 
Root woody, fmall, creeping much ; Items many, a long 
fpan in height, ftraightilh at bottom woody and branched, 
but at length lolitary, more (lender, round, green, naked 
at the top, villole and glutinofe with very lhort fpreading 
hairs. Native of the l'outh of Europe. 
40. Ciftus thymifolius, or thyme-leaved ciftus: procum¬ 
bent; leaves oval-linear, oppofite, very lhort heaped. 
Linnaeus has given no defcription of this fpecies. Vil- 
lars lays, that it is a (mailer plant than his hirfutus, but 
he doubts whether that be the fame with the pilolus of 
Linnaeus. The leaves are narrower, and dilpofed in 
bundles ; the flowers are yellow, but linaller and fewer. 
It is villofe, but the tiffue is clofer, which renders it 
whitilh. The hairs do not iffue from a gland, nor does 
it feem to-be glutinous. The leaves much refemble thole 
of thyme, but they are not fo hard, and they are a little 
whiter. Native of the fouth of France and of Spain ; 
cultivated in 1714, by the duchefs of Beaufort. 
41. Ciftus pilofus, or hairy ciftus: almoft upright; leaves 
linear, with two grooves underneath, hoary; calyxes even. 
Gerarde refers to this all the fmall fpecies with white 
flowers; and Allioni agrees with him. It varies with 
broader ovate leaves, fcarcely revolute; and narrower 
leaves, revolute on both fides, ufually whitilh. The white 
colour of the corolla varies exceedingly ; and, in the gar¬ 
den, the lame plant will have white, fulphureous, and 
rofe-coloured, flowers. It is alfo not uncommon on the 
maritime hills of the county of Nice, with rofe-coloured 
flowers. Native of the fouth of France, Spain, and Pied¬ 
mont : cultivated by Mr. Miller in 1759. 
42. Ciltus racemolus: leaves linear, calyxes racemed, 
pointing one way, nerved-angular, fmooth. This is a 
Vox,. IV. No. 224. 
621 
weak ftirub, half a foot in height; according to Lin¬ 
naeus, the ftature of rofemary: the branches remotely 
muricated from the fallen leaves, tomentoje, and lioary at 
thp top. Native of Spain. 
43. Ciftus anguftifolius : diffufed; leaves lanceolate; 
calyxes hirfute. Roof perennial, branched ; Hem round, 
branched from the bale, woody the younger branches, 
with the leaves, llipules, and racemes, (lightly villofe and 
hoary. 
44. Ciftus helianthemum, or dwarf ciftus, or little fun- 
flower: procumbent; llipules lanceolate; leaves oblong, 
revolute, fomewhat hairy. According to Linnaeus, the 
petals are fuborbiculate, quite entire, yellow, generally 
with a tawny ring lurrounding the receptacle. The ra¬ 
cemes nod before they flower. The leaves have a few 
hairs fcattered over them. Mr. Curtis obferved that the 
hairs on the leaves are forked ;’ Hems numerous, round, 
fmooth at the bottom, at the top (lightly hairy, commonly 
reddilh. Scopoli diftinguilhes this from his grandiflorus, 
by having the llipules fliorter than the calyx ; whereas in 
that they are longer. Polliich fays that he has reckoned 
as far as ninety ftamens in a flower. The ufual colour of 
the corolla is a full yellow, but it varies to leipon-colour, 
white, and even rofe-colour; it is alfo faid to be found 
with a double corolla. It varies likewife fomething in the 
leaves. Found in dry paftures in many parts of Europe. 
With us generally in calcareous foils: perennial; flower¬ 
ing from June to Augull. 
45. Ciltus mutabilis, or changeable ciftus: procum¬ 
bent; llipules lanceolate; leaves oblong, fmooth, flat. 
Stems feveral, branching very much, woody at the bot¬ 
tom, and the fize of a common quill, procumbent and 
brown; from thefe fpring annually numerous, fmooth, 
afcending, branches, about a foot in length ; leaves op¬ 
pofite, petioled, lanceolate-oblong, bluntilli, quite entire, 
green, flat, not revolute; feeds few, brown. It flowers 
in May and June p and the feeds ripen in July. 
46. Ciftus hirtus, or rofemary-leaved ciltus : leaves 
ovate ; calyxes hifpid. Stem eredt, fending out many fide 
branches, with the joints pretty clofe; leaves very narrow, 
oppofite, revolute, the upper fui face of a lucid green, and 
the under hoary; flow'ers large, white, in fmall clufters at 
the ends of the branches. Native of the fouth of France, 
Spain, and Villafranca : cultivated by Mr. Miller in 1759. 
47. Ciftus Apenninus, or Apennine ciftus : fpreading; 
leaves lanceolate, rough with hairs. This is a foot in 
height, branching, and fpreading; leaves green and rough 
with hairs on the upper furface, on the lower hoary. 
Miller makes two fpecies of this, and thus defcribes 
them : 2. The dalles are much larger, and extend farther, 
than thofe of ciftus helianthemum; the leaves are longer 
and hoary; there are three acuminate eredt llipules at 
each of the low'er joints; the racemes are much longer; 
the calyx is hairy and whitilh; the corollas are white and 
larger. 4. The ftems are more eredt, the leaves not fo 
long, the llipules very fmall, and the whole plant very 
hoary; the flowers are white, the fpikes fliorter and more 
compadt. Native of Italy, on the Apennines : cultivated 
in 1731 by Mr. Miller. 
48. Ciftus polifolius, or mountain ciftus : procumbent; 
leaves oblong-ovate, hoary ; calyxes, even ; petals ferrate. 
Branches many, fpreading on the ground, hoary towards 
the end, towards the bafe brownilh, with frequent joints, 
and-naked, moil of them a band in length, but the inner 
and younger branches much fliorter ; leaves thickifli, 
fomewhat ftiff, revolute, having a prominent rib under¬ 
neath, hoary, frequent, with others much lmaller grow¬ 
ing from the axils; flow'ers few', terminal, of the lame 
form and fize with thofe of No. 44; feeds many, three- 
cornered, dark brown. In a garden, the leaves become 
larger, lofe their hoarinefs, and become green and hairy. 
Remarked firft by Plukenet, on Brent down in Somerfet- 
Ihire, near the Severn Sea; and found in the fame place, 
on the middle of the hill, by Dillenius, in July 1726. Na¬ 
tive alfo of the fouth of Europe. 
7 T 49. Ciftus 
