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                               P     L      A     T      ER      XCIX.  
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   ericum. ourn. Iq l, R. 2. 254.     ab. 31-. Lin. Gen. Plant. 90t. t $rt,
in Frencb 
                                             .Millebertiusb 
      THE Charaaers are already exhibited in Page I3, Plate 2S& 
      THIs Specie is, 
      HY PERtic U m(Monogynum) floribus tflmonigys, flaminibus corolla longioribus,
calycibus coloratis, 
  catile fruticofbo. 'St. John's Wort with one Style to the Flowers, Stamina
longe-'than the Petals, 
  coloured Empalements, and a fhrubby Stalk. Mill. Sp. XI. 
      THIS Sort grows naturally in China, from whence the SeedsIwere brought
to his Grace the Duke 
  of Northumberland, and the Plants were raifed in his Graces curious Garden
at Ainwick. 
      THE Root of this -Plant is compored of many ligneous Fibresý
which arike deep in the Ground, 
  from which arife feveral Ihrubby Stalks near two Feet high, covered with
a purplifh Barký and 
  garnifhed with -uiff fmooth Leaves, about two Inches long and a quarter
of an Inch broad, placed by 
  Pairs, fitting clofe to the Stalk; they are of a lucid green -n their upper
Si&e, and grey ori the under, 
  having many tranfverfe Veins running from the Mid-rib to the Border. The
Flowers are produced 
  at the Top of the Stalks, growing in finall Clufters, each ftinding upon
a fhort diftinct Foot Stalk; 
  thefe have an Empalement of one Leaf, divided into five obtufe Segments
almoft to the bottom, which 
  is of deep purple Colourn The Flower is compofed of five large obtufe Petals,
A, of a bright yellow 
  Colour ; thefe are Concave, and in the Center is fituated an oval Germen,
B, fopporting a fingle Style, 
  C, crowned by five flender Stigmas, D, which bend on one Side; the Style
is attended by -a great 
  Number of Stamina, E, which ite longer than the Petals, and terminated
by roundifh Sutmmits, F, 
    This Plant continues to flower great Part of the Year, which renders
it the more valuable, and if 
 it is planted in a warm Situation it will live in the open Air; but thofe
Plants which fhand abroad will 
 not Flower in Winter, as thofe do which are removed into fhalter in Autumn.
Mill, Gard. Dia. 
                               P    L      A     T      I      C 
 CýL/us. Lin. Gen. Plant. 673. t 'ourn. Intl. R. 1. 259. Ta. 36. [It
ficalkd from i    r   Ivy, 
              hecae its fmallefminal VfeJl is inclofd inna Cifra or little
Cho.] Rocl Rofe. 
    THE Charaters are, 
    THE Flower hath a five leaved Enmpalement, A, which is permanenpt'j two
of the middle alternate 
 Leaves being fmaller than the other, the Flower hath .five large roundifh
Petals, B, which fpread 
 open ; it hath a great Number of hairy Stamina, C, which are lhorter than
the Petals, and are ter" 
 minated by fmall roundifh Summits, D; in the Center is fituated a roundiff
Germen, fupporting a 
tingle Style, the Length of the Stamina, crowned by a plain orbicular Stigma,
E, the Germen after- 
ward becomes an oval clofe Capfule, having in fome five, and other ten Cells,
filled with fmall 
roundifh Seeds. 
    THE Specie here reprerented Is, 
    CISTus orborefcens, duplicato crF 
rifes to the height of three Feet o 
brownifh Bark, garnifhed with doul 
at the End of the Branches, four o 
than one or two open at a Time, f 
others, fo that there is a conflant & 
feldom begins flowering till July orj