POLYANDRIA. MQNOGYNIA. Cistus. 659 
Buckbarrow bank scar, between Bridgsteer and Consick, and about 
Cartmel Wells, Lancashire. Ray. Gloddaeth, Carnarvonshire. Pennant. 
(Near the Black Ark, on Cronkley Fell, in Teesdale, at an elevation of 
2,000 feet Mr. Winch. On Arthur’s Round Table, in the parish of 
Llanfihangel Dinsylwi, Anglesey. Welsh Bot. E.) P. May. 
(2) Herbaceous; without stipulce. 
C. gutta'tus. Leaves opposite, spear-shaped, three-ribbed: bunches 
without floral-leaves. 
Dicks. H. S. — Ger. Em. 1281. 19— Park. 661— J. B. ii. a. 14. 1. 
Whole plant covered with expanding hairs, (dark green, rather fragrant. E.) 
Stem upright. Leaves sessile, three or four pairs. Bunch slender, termi¬ 
nal. Flowers upright, but when just out of blossom pendent. Fruit 
upright. Fruit-stalks long, slender. Flowers pale yellow. Petals, with 
a dark reddish spot at the base, falling off in a few hours; sometimes 
observed without spots. Stem about a foot high. E.) 
Spotted-flowered Cistus. (Welsh: Cor-rosyn rhudd-manog. E.) Sandy 
pastures on M. Llech ddue, near Holyhead, Anglesey ; Mr. Brewer ; and 
not in the Isle of Man. Rev. H. Davies.* E.) A. June.t 
(3) Herbaceous; with stipulce. 
C. (ledifo'lius. Pubescent: leaves spear-shaped: fruit-stalks upright, 
opposite to the leaves, shorter than the calyx: flowers solitary. 
(E. Bot. 2414. E.)— Lob. Ohs. 552. 1; and Ic. ii. 118.1— Ger. Em. 1280. 17. 
Petals yellow, smaller than the calyx, very soon shedding, sometimes 
wanting. Huds. ( Stem nearly upright, undivided, sometimes branched 
at the bottom, cylindrical, hairy, leafy, few-flowered. Leaves opposite, 
blunt, very entire, narrowed at the base, downy on both sides, one and a 
half inch long. Stipulce one-third the length of the leaves, acute. 
Calyx-leafits tapering to a point, marked with nerves, hairy. Capsule 
large, triangular, polished, hairy, at the upper part of the angles, single- 
celled, the receptacles being not at all prominent so as to form partitions. 
C. salicifolius, with which this plant has been confounded, differs in 
being only one half the size; in having a more branched stem, horizon¬ 
tal peduncles, and calyx half as long again. Sm. 
* (For the correction of this and a few other topographical errors, originating in a like 
misconception, we are indebted to the late ingenious author of the Welsh Botanology, who, 
happening to possess a copy of Brewer’s Diary, was enabled to ascertain that “ Brewer never 
visited the Isle of Man ; ” and that “ the Mona of Dillenius,—of Hudson, with regard to 
C. guttatus , and W'herever he quotes Dillenius and Brewer, is not the Isle of Man, the 
Mona of Caesar; but the Mona of Tacitus, and the hallowed scene of Mason’s Caracta- 
cus.” E.) 
j* (In the middle of summer, Curtis remarks, when the mornings are long and the solar 
rays powerful, the petals of this species will frequently fall off before nine o’clock ; towards 
autumn vre have known them continue till noon : immediately on their falling, the three 
larger leaves of the calyx close together over the stamens and pistil, and secure them from 
any injury they might be liable to sustain from the early loss of their more delicate 
covering. Another exemplification t of the care and skill observable in the economy of 
nature, which amply recompenses attention even of the humblest productions. E.) 
