The large-growing Gum Cistus is well known and tolerably hardy everywhere, and so also is C.
In the left lower corner, Cistus hirsutus; middle, Rosa alba; to right, R.
The Laurel-leaved Cistus (page 9) is a native of the South of Europe, and grows over four feet high.
Moserianum, and again in front a Cistus of low, spreading growth, C.
At its foot, on the sunny side, are low bushy plants of Cistus florentinus.
It is an upright-growing Cistus that would soon cover a tallish wall-space, but this time it must be content to grow horizontally, and I shall watch to see whether it will flower more freely, as so many things do when trained down.
The main planting should be of Cistus and Rosemary and Lavender, and for the shadier edges the Myrtle-leaved Rhododendron, and Ledum palustre, and the three Bog-myrtles.
Much too near it are two bushes of Cistus ladaniferus.
Among the sweet shrubs from the nearer of these southern regions, one of the best for English gardens is Cistus laurifolius.
I know not; the cistus is brown now, the rest all deep and brilliant green.
From the summit of the pass the ground sweeps away to the southward, an ocean of white-flowered cistus bushes interspersed with the vivid yellow of the broom.
Andromeda polifolia, Marsh Cistus or Wild Rosemary: in bogs in Iveragh and Dunkerron baronies, and near Isaac-town.
It is sheltered from the north by a solid sandstone wall about eleven feet high clothed for the most part with evergreen shrubs--Bay and Laurustinus, Choisya, Cistus and Loquat.
Close to them, rising to the wall's whole eleven feet of height, is a Cistus cyprius, bearing a quantity of large white bloom with a deep red spot at the base of each petal.
It is therefore very likely that the secret preparation originated by Paracelsus which he called laudanum, was composed of the gum of the cistus as well as opium, and that he adopted the title from the former ingredient.
In one case, not less than a cart-load of sticks, branches, and twigs of cistus and heath had been collected, covering a circular space some six feet in diameter by two in depth.
Over each open flower of rock-rose or cistus hovers the humming-bird hawk-moth, with here and there one of the larger sphinxes (S.
Even the stretches of grey gum-cistus have become almost gaudy with their pink, white, and pale yellow flowers.
Any dead cistus or remnant of a sand-submerged pine collects around it that shifting substance, and half-hidden amidst these my stags were trotting forward when I gave them my double salute.
The white gum-cistus stars the hillside thickly, and the anemones cluster in soft banks of colour, while up and down the banks crimson cyclamens burn little tongues of flame, and over all waves the graceful asphodel.
Gum cistus, a plant of the genusCistus (Cistus ladaniferus), a species of rock rose.
Cretan rockrose, a related shrub (Cistus Creticus), one of the plants yielding the fragrant gum called ladanum.
Gum Ladanum, a fragrant gum yielded by several Oriental species of Cistus or rock rose.
Cistus Ladanum) from which the gum ladanum is obtained.
Wherever a slightly more generous soil permits, the cistus is interspersed and thickened with rhododendron, brooms, myrtle, and a hundred cognate plants.
On the warm sand at midday bask pretty green and spotted lizards,[10] apparently asleep, but alert to dart off on slightest alarm, disappearing like a thought in some crevice of the cistus stems.
Clumps of tall reed-grass or three-foot rushes, a patch of cistus or rosemary, amply fulfilled his diurnal ideals and requirements.
To return to the Helianthemum, the species of this genus are generally used for rockwork, as they are all dwarf plants, though many of the genus Cistus are large shrubs four or five feet high.
They had not far to go to reach the field of flowers, and could already catch sight of the cistus flowers' glowing gold in the sun.
The whole ground in front of her was a mass of shimmering gold, where thecistus flowers spread their yellow blossoms.
He drove us along between flowery fields of cistus until the temples of Selinunte came in sight, then down to the Marinella, a handful of houses on the shore under the low cliff.
So we drove on among the cistus bushes and I asked him about the lottery.
Cistus Ladanum) from which the gum ladanum is obtained.
Down a many-folded gorge of glowing red earth decked with olives and cistus the eye wanders to the Ionian Sea shining in deepest turquoise tints, and beautified by a glittering margin of white sand.
I remember a night in September of 1908, a Sunday night, fragrant with the odours of withered rosemary andcistus and fennel that streamed in aromatic showers from the scorched heights overhead--a starlit night, tranquil and calm.
Around her were the blue flowers softly waving to and fro, and beyond the gleaming patches of the cistus flowers and the red centaury, while the sweet scent of the brown blossoms and of the fragrant prunella enveloped her as she sat.
They had not far to go to reach the field of flowers, and could already catch sight of the cistus flowers glowing gold in the sun.
In the moments when the sun shone the heat made the sticky cistus bushes with the glistening white flowers all about me reek with pungence.
The smell ofcistus was intense, hot, full of spices as the narrow streets of an oriental town at night.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cistus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
