4 POLYANBRIA. MONOG¥NTA. 
Herbaceous, suffruticose or shrubby plants; leaves op 
posite or rarely alternate, stipulate or naked; flowers most- 
ly terminal, racemose or subpaniculate, generally yellow, 
in a few species purple or white. 
. 
Species. 1.H.canadense. 2. ramulifarum. 3. corym- 
bosum. 4, rosmariniflorum. 5. carolinianum. 
A genus.of more than 80 species almost exclusively in- 
digenous to the south of Europe, extending also into the 
approximating parts of Africa. 
356. HUDSONIA. L. 
Calix inferior, unequally 5-parted, tubular and 
colored, 2 of the segments obsolete. Petals 5? 
(Stamina 15 to 30.) Capsute 1-celled, 3-valved, 
~ 1 to S-seed Seeds granulated. 
Natural Order Cistt. 
ye ‘Low suffruticose, pubescent and often cespitose plants 
with minute acerose alternate leaves more or less imbri- 
cated and destitute of stipules; flowers yellow resem- 
— those of Cistus, subsessile or peduneulate; pedun- 
1-flo’ ered, solitary and terminal or, laterally aggre- 
a ; calix more or less tubular, very unequally 5-part- 
. Bi, 2of te segments filiform and external attached to 
___ the others, the inner side coleured.—(Stamina irregularly 
ee arranged,, anthers roundish and small, 2-celled, epching 
 Tongitudin: put the leogth of of awns, pores, or or appendices 
about length of the mae simple, stigma indis- 
m about 3-seeded. ule smooth or pu-~ 
ng or cee Ghicce. 1-celled, Sayatyed, 
feway the valves not inflected, the centre often 
; septiferous, each suture or imperfect. septum 1-s oa. 
seds pendulous. from the sutures, each by an umbilical 
ment, 1 or 2 mostly abortive; solitary seed, cylindric- 
te, covered with a pale granulated integument: em- 
immersed in a corneous perisperm.) 
Pectes. 1. H.ericoides. Equally pubescent; stem 
» leaves filiform, and subulate, subimbricate; pedun- 
gf 
les laterally aggregated; calix cylindric, obtuse; capsule - 
l-seeded, valves oblong, pubescent. (Figure 
Hort. Berol. 15.) Has. Abundant over the bar- 
en sandy woods of New-Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, 
Virglnia, &e. Oss. Stem erect and much branched. 
ea about 2 lines | subimbricated, but distinct 
_ from the stem, almost ormly gts is Bp and as 
2a tn tie vestof the poncs pero, cadaciog Fe sears. 
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