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HELIANTHEMTJM scabrosum.
Rough Sun-Rose.
Sect. I. H alimium. Supra f o l . 4.
** Stylo subnullo, stigm ate magno.
H. scabrosum, caule fruticoso erectiusculo, ramis tomentosis villoso-
pilosis scabris canescentibus, foliis sessilibus basi attenuatis ob-
longo-ovatis acutiusculis scabriusculis trinerviis undulatis margine
subrevolutis : supra viridiusculis subtus tomentoso-cinereis, calyci-
bus 3-sepalis birsutis, petalis distiuctis.
Helianthemnm scabrosum. P e rs . syn. 2 . p . 76. D C . p ro d r. 1. p . 268.
Spreng. syst. 2 . p . 587.
Cistus scabrosus. H o rt. K ew . v. 2 . p . 236. e d it. 2 . v. 3. p . 308. B ro t.
JL lus. 2 . p . 265. Willden. s p .p l. 2 . p . 1192.
A handsome small bushy shrub, with spreading, rather
crooked branches, that are densely clothed with
bunches of short hairs, and long soft villous ones intermixed
: as the hairs wear off, the stem becomes rough,
the hairs being seated on a sort of small warts or tubercles,
when young white or greyish, afterwards becoming
brown. Leaves opposite, sessile, but attenuated or
becoming gradually narrower towards the base, where
they are three-nerved, oblongly ovate, or sometimes
lanceolate, generally acute, but sometimes obtuse, very
much undulate at the margins, which are generally reflexed
or rolled backwards, hairy on both sides, and
rough to the touch, particularly on the under side, upper
side pale green, underneath very white while young,
but becoming greener by age. Stipules none. Flowers
bright yellow, without spots, terminating the branches,
generally from 2 to 5 in a sort of panicle, which would
probably be more numerous in a strong plant. Bractes
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