CISTUS florentinus.
Florentine Rock-Rose.
Sect. I I . Ledonia. Supra fol. 1.
§. 1. Pedunculis unifloris, aut multifloris cymosis; sepalis 5, exter-
nis scepiüs cordatis acuminatis ; capsulis h-locularibus.
* Pedunculis basi nudis, scepe infrä medium, folia opposita geren-
tibus.
C. jlorentinus, foliis lanceolatis rugosis reticulato-venosis subsessili-
bus, pedunculis villosis subtrifloris, sepalis longe acuminatis pilosis,
petalis imbricatis.
Cistus florentinus. Lam. diet. 2. p. 17. D C . prodr. 1. p . 265. Sivt.
hort. brit.p. 34. Spreng. syst. 2. p. 585.
Stem shrubby, much branched: branches crowded,
spreading, erect, or ascending, more or less tinged with
purple 5 when young clothed with bunches of hairs,
which are unequal in length, and are seated on a little
tubercle; older branches glossy but rough, occasioned
by the little tubercles on which the hairs had been seated.
Leaves linearly lanceolate or sometimes oblongly
lanceolate, undulate, acute, tapering to the base, upper
ones sessile and broad at the base; lower ones tapering
to the base into a sort of footstalk, 1-nerved, pen-
nately and reticulately veined, the points a little recurved
; when young clothed with numerous bunches of
short hairs, and a sort of thin tomentum underneath,
the hairs mostly curved upwards towards the point,
stiff and rigid, which causes a roughness; old ones becoming
smooth and glossy, and more or less tinged with
purple. Bractes or leaves on the flower-stem, sessile,
three-nerved from the base. Peduncles and pedicles
clothed with spreading hairs and shorter down intermixed,
which gives them a hoary appearance, the pe