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HELIANTHEMUM serpyllifolium.
Serpyllum-leaved Sun-Rose.
Sect. IX . E uhelianthemum. Suprafol.7.
* Petalis luteis.
H serpyllifolium, oaule suffruticoso procumbente ramosissimo: ra-
mis adscendentibus basi glabris apice piiosiusculis, folnsoblongo-
ellipticis margine subrevolutis «ubtbs tomentoso-mcams; supra
intense viridibus nitidis priraum piiosiusculis dein glabris, stipulis
bracteisque viridibus ciliatis, calycibus acuminatis hyalims canes-
ceutibus pube subinconspicua: nervis parce pilosis, petalis dis-
tinctis patentissimis.
Helianthemum serpyllifolium. Mill. diet. n. 8. DC.prodr. 1. p. 280.
Spreng. syst. veg. 2. p. 593. Swt. liort. brit. p. 35. n. 60.
Stem suffruticose, procumbent, very much branched :
branches crowded, spreading round in all directions,
the points ascending, smooth and glossy on the lower
part, andwarted here and there, the upper part slightly
hairy on the young shoots. Leaves opposite, crowded,
generally distichously spreading and imbricate, flat, or
the margins slightly revolute, underneath clothed with
a dense white tomentum, the upper side smooth, of a
glossy green, hairy while young, the margins more or
less fringed with rather distant hairs, which are sometimes
singly, and sometimes in small tufts . lower leaves,
and those on the small branches, roundly oval, blunt-
ish : upper ones, and those on the long shoots, oblongly
elliptic, or elliptically lanceolate, more acute. Petioles
shorter than the stipules, slightly pubescent. Stipules
green, linear, acute, very much fringed with long bristly
hairs. Racemes terminal, several-flowered, nodding before
the expansion of the flowers, afterwards lengthening
out and erect. Bractes linear, resembling the sti