HELIANTHEMUM pulverulentum.
Powdered Sun-Rose.
Sect. IX . E uhelianthemum. Supra, fol."!.
** Petalis albis, roseis, rubris vel dilutè sulphureis.
H. pulverulentum, caule suffruticoso ramosissimo prostrato : ramis
incano-tomentosiusculis, foliis oblongo-linearibus margine revo-
lutis obtusis suhtus incanis supra glaucis, stipulis subulatis ciliatis
apice setosis petiolo longioribus, calycibus canescentibus minute
tomentoso-pubescentibus, petalis valde imbricatis.
Helianthemum pulverulentum. DC. j l . f r . 4. p. 823. Prodr. t .
p . 282. Pers. syn. 2. p. 80. Swt. hort. brit. p. 36. n. 74.
Cistus pulverulentus. Pourr. act. toul. 3. p . 311.
Stems suffruticose, prostrate, very much branched,
and spreading in all directions : branches opposite,
densely clothed with a close-pressed white tomentum.
Leaves opposite, oblongly linear, obtuse, margins révolu
te, underneath clothed with a close white tomentum,
the upper side of a glaucous powdery appearance, originating
from small close-pressed white hairs, with
which the upper surface is covered, and is more conspicuous
on the young leaves. Petioles short, tomen-
tose and hairy. Stipules siibulately linear, longer than
the petioles, hairy and ciliate, bristly at the point. Racemes
terminal, several flowered. Bractes linear, blurit-
ish, hairy and ciliate, more than half thé length of the
peduncles. Peduncles clothed with a dense white pubescence
and hairs intermixed, nodding before the
flowers expand, and often when in flower, afterwards
reflexed. Calyx of 5 sepals, the 2 outer ones small,
oblong, bluntish, very hairy : inner ones ovate, concave,
bluntish, strongly 4-nerved, the nerves clothed
with short rigid hairs, and between them with a short
white close pubescence. Petals 5, much imbricate and
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