HELIANTHEMUM eriosepalon.
Woolly-calyxed Sun-Rose.
Sect. IX . E dhelianthemum. S u p r a f o l.T .
** P e ta lis albis, roseis, rubris v e l d ilu te sulphureis.
EL eriosepalon, caulibus ramosis procumbentibus tomentosiusculis
apice incanis, foliis lanceolatis acutis margine sub-revolutis utrin-
que viridibus stellato-pilosis, stipulis linearibus acutis ciliatis pe-
tiolo duplo longioribus, racemo terminali multifloro, calycibus to-
mentoso-pilosis, petalis obovatis crenulatis basi distinctis.
Helianthemum eriosepalon. S w t. hort. b r it. p . 469. n. 96.
Stems procumbent, rough and rugged, much branched
: branches spreading in all directions, slightly tomen-
tose, the upper part more densely so and canescent.
Leaves opposite, petioled, lanceolate, acute, the margins
more or less uneven, a little undulate, and slightly revolute,
green on both sides, and clothed with fascicles
of longish hairs, which are stellately spreading. P e tioles
also clothed with fascicles of hairs, channelled on
the upper side and rounded underneath. Stipules linear,
acute, fringed with long hairs, green on both sides, generally
about double the length of the footstalks. R a cemes
long, tomentose, many-flowered, nodding before
the expansion of the flowers, afterwards becoming erect.
Pedicles densely tomentose, drooping before the expansion
of the flowers, erect when in bloom, afterwards reflexed.
Calyx of 5 sepals, densely clothed with woolly
hairs, the two outer ones very small, lanceolate, blunt-
ish, channelled on the upper side, three inner ones ovate,
unequal on one side, membranaceous, strongly 4-nerved,
concave on the upper side and convex below. Petals 5,
obovate, crenulate, sometimes emarginate, of a pale sul