HELIANTHEMUM salicifolium.
Willow-leaved annual Sun-Rose.
Sect. V. Brachypetalum. Suprafol. 41.
** Pedunculis horizontalibusfoliis seu bracteis longioribus, fioribus
erectis; sepalis internis trinerviis.
H . salicifolium, caule ramoso, ramis erectis vel adscendentibus sub-
hirsutis, foliis breviter petiolatis obovato-oblongis acutiusculis
denticulatis subtomentosis supra virescentibus, stipulis lineari-
oblougis superioribus folio dimidió brevioribus, pedunculis calyci-
busque hirsutis suboppositibracteis, bracteis ovatis acuminatis ses-
silibus integris. DC. prodr. 1. p. 273.
Helianthemum salicifolium. Pers. syn. 2. p. 78. Willd. enum. 1.
p. 571. Link enum. 2. p. 75. Spreng, syst. 2. p . 589.
Cistus salicifolius. Linn. spec. 742. Willden. sp. pi. 2. p. 1200.
Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 3. p. 310. Flor, greec. t.
Annual, from a span to 9 inches in height, more or
less branched ; branches upright or ascending, more or
less hairy. Leaves on short petioles, obovately oblong,
bluntish or scarcely acute, clothed with a short down,
the margins fringed with fascicles of slender white
hairs, which are seated on little tubercles that gives the
appearance of small teeth, the upper side pale green;
underneath paler and strongly nerved : lower ones opposite,
broadest, and bluntest; the upper ones alternate,
narrower, and more acute. Petioles hairy. Stipules
linearly oblong or lanceolate, acute, the upper
ones broadest and longest, also clothed with stellate
fascicles of hairs. Flowers small, yellow, in a sort of
terminal raceme. Pedicles generally opposite to a leaf
or bracte, horizontal or ascending, densely hairy, thickening
upwards. Bractes sessile, ovate, acuminate, also
thickly clothed with bunches of hairs seated on minute