Trees and shrubs, hardy in the British isles . ; cultivated in 1640. It is one ofthe hardier sorts, and will survive all but our hardest winters. The namealbidus, it should be noted, refers to the foliage, and not to the flowers. Ithas hybridised with and is closely allied to C. crispus, from which it differs inits flat, not undulated leaves, and its comparatively long-stalked flowers—those of crispus being almost stalkless. 344 CISTUS C. , Pourrct. CORIUERES RoCK RoSE.(Sweets Cistinccin, t. 8.) A densely bushy, evergreen shrub, 3 or 4 ft, high, often more in width ;young branches
Trees and shrubs, hardy in the British isles . ; cultivated in 1640. It is one ofthe hardier sorts, and will survive all but our hardest winters. The namealbidus, it should be noted, refers to the foliage, and not to the flowers. Ithas hybridised with and is closely allied to C. crispus, from which it differs inits flat, not undulated leaves, and its comparatively long-stalked flowers—those of crispus being almost stalkless. 344 CISTUS C. , Pourrct. CORIUERES RoCK RoSE.(Sweets Cistinccin, t. 8.) A densely bushy, evergreen shrub, 3 or 4 ft, high, often more in width ;young branches smooth, or with a very minute down. Leaves ovate, pointed,heart-shaped or rounded at the base, 4 to 2 ins. long, \ to i in. wide ; minutelytoothed and wavy at the margin, each tooth crested with a tuft of minute hairs;net-veined, dull dark green above, paler beneath, both surfaces with starrydown ; stalks \ to \ in. long, downy. Flowers \\ ins. across, white with ayellow stain at the base of the petals, produced in June at the end of short. CiSTDs VILLO8U8 (see p. 349). axillary shoots ; there are from one to three flowers on each stalk, which isslender, stellately hairy, and about 3 ins. long. Outer sepals heart-shaped, \in. long, hairy. A natural hybrid between the Narbonne variety of C. populifolius andC. salvifolius, taking its name from Corbicres, in the south of France. This isone of the hardiest and best of cistuscs, and like many hybrids possesses avigour and constitution superior to that of its parents. In the debacle of rathertender plants which followed the great frosts of February 1895, this Cistus wasone of the three which survived at Kew, the other two being Loreti andlaurifolius. Large groups of plants raised from the survivors now give mostpleasing displays from June onwards every year. The general aspect of theplant is that of a small-leaved C. populifolius, of which it has been known asvar. minor. CISTUS 345 C. CRISP us, Linncetis. (Sweets Cistinex, t. 22.)
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