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length, and are replaced by fresh growths the following 
spring. The branches are slender, very hairy, when young 
clothed with a hairy tomentum more or less tinged with 
purple. The leaves are shortly stalked, hairy, clothed with 
a hairy tomentum. This species is a native of the South¬ 
ern United States. 
H. Formosum. (See illustration.) This is an erect, 
much-branched, bushy shrub, with leaves greenish when 
old, but covered with a whitish down when young, and 
large bright yellow flowers, with a deep purplish brown 
blotch near the base of each petal. The species thrives 
well in any rich, dry soil, but is apt to succumb to the cold 
and wet of English winters. It is, however, such a 
beautiful plant that it is well worth the trouble of putting 
in a pot of cuttings each autumn in a cold frame, and 
planting these out in the open border the following spring. 
It is one of the largest flowered species, and one of the 
most distinct and handsome of all the Sun Roses. If raised 
from seeds, which in ordinary seasons ripen in abundance, 
a considerable range of variation in the depth of the yellow 
color and in the size and intensity of the purplish blotch is 
obtained. Seedlings also vary a good deal in foliage 
characters, so that any especially desirable variety should 
always be increased by cuttings, which root readily if 
made of half-ripened wood and inserted in a shaded, cool 
frame in autumn. The illustration published herewith 
represents a fine garden form of this species. It does not 
appear to be common in a wild state, but has long been 
cultivated in Britain, and is a native of Portugal. 
H. Fumana. This is a pretty heath-like plant, with 
somewhat fleshy linear leaves and yellow flowers. It 
thrives in a sunny, well-drained situation, and does well 
in pots in a cold frame. Widely distributed throughout 
Southern Europe. 
H. Globularicefolium. A dwarf perennial with a rosette 
of long-stalked oval, oval-lanceolate, or spathulate, three- 
nerved hairy leaves and bracteate flowering stems with 
large yellow flowers. This is a near ally of the true H. 
Tuberaria, but differs in its long-stalked green leaves, in 
the citron-yellow, black-spotted flowers borne in dense 
racemes, and in the violet-colored filaments. A native of 
Portugal and North and West Spain. 
H. Flalimifolium. The Sea Purslane-leaved Sun Rose 
is a beautiful evergreen shrub. In a wild state it varies 
not a little according to the conditions under which it 
grows, and under cultivation it alters so much as to render 
it at times difficult to determine. In English gardens it 
attains a height of three or four feet, is of erect habit, 
and forms a densely-branched, compact bush, clothed with 
a short, close, hoary tomentum. It is a native of Central 
and Southern Spain, and a near ally of the subject of our 
illustration. 
H. L&vipes. A much-branched dwarf shrub with 
slender rigid branches, heath-like leaves, and yellow flow¬ 
ers. An elegant little plant for a sunny spot on the 
rockery or for cultivation in pot for cool greenhouse deco¬ 
ration. It is readily increased either by seeds or cuttings. 
A native of Southwest Europe. 
H. Lavandulcefolium. The Lavender-leaved Sun Rose 
is a beautiful dwarf shrub a foot or more in height, with 
feathery lavender-like leaves, often glaucescent above and 
stellately-tomentose below, and dense racemes of yellow 
flowers. In the common form the leaves are linear-lan¬ 
ceolate with revolute margins ; in another, Var. syriacuno , 
they are broader and flat (not with revolute edges). A 
native of the Mediterranean region. 
H. Leptephyllum. A dwarf shrub about a foot high, 
with ascending ashy-gray branches, linear-oblong, shortly- 
stalked leaves, dark green above, and clothed beneath with 
a dense tomentum. The flowers are a bright yellow color. 
This species is an excellent rockery plant; it is a native of 
Scotland. 
H. Libanotis. A charming dwhrf shrub, from six inches 
to two feet in height, with slender branches clothed with 
ashy-gray bark and deep-green rosemary-like leaves. 
The yellow flowers are produced in great profusion. This 
species is confined to the littoral Southwest Mediterranean 
region. 
H. Occidentale. A very variable much-branched ever¬ 
green shrub ; in its more northern habitats and toward 
the limits of its extension up the mountains, procumbent 
or diffuse ; in the warmer southern regions an erect bush 
sometimes three feet high. The leaves vary much in color 
from deep green to a dull whitish hue, owing in the latter 
state to the presence of a dense covering of stellate hairs. 
There are several forms of this species under cultivation, 
the flowers of which attain double the size of those of wild 
plants, and they exhibit a range of various shades of yellow, 
the petals being totally without any dark blotch at the 
base, or conspicuously marked. 
H. Polifoliwn. A dwarf under shrub with opposite 
leaves hoary and downy on both surfaces ; margins re¬ 
curved. In habit it resembles our native Rock Rose, but 
differs from that in being more shrubby, in the leaves 
being recurved, or even revolute margins, and in the 
white flowers. A native of Central and Southern Europe 
and North Africa. This species is one of the prettiest of 
native plants, and, it is needless to say, is quite hardy. 
H. Umbellatum. This is a near ally of H. globu- 
laritzfolium, previously mentioned. From that species it 
differs in its shortly stalked, often silky, hoary leaves. It 
is a charming little perennial, succeeding well in sandy 
soil in any sunny spot on the rockery. During the summer 
months it grows freely enough in the ordinary herbaceous 
border, and ripens an abundance of seeds, which should 
be saved and sown under grass in the spring, the excessive 
moisture of English winters very often proving fatal to the 
plants left in the open ground, except in dry, well-drained 
sandy soils. The flowers are a bright, light yellow color, 
and measure about an inch across. A native of the West¬ 
ern Mediterranean region. 
H. Vulgare. The common Rock Rose is the most 
variable of all the Helianthemums, and none have a wider 
geographical distribution. It is found throughout Europe 
—even within the Arctic circle—North Africa and West 
Asia. A host of varieties have originated in gardens, and 
the hybrids, natural and artificial, between this species and 
some of its allies are almost innumerable, some of ’the 
most distinct forms having] been regarded by different 
authorities as species. The ordinary yellow-flowered type 
is a common British plant, ascending to about 2,000 feet 
above sea level. It generally affects dry soils, and exhibits 
