POLYANDRIA. MONOGYNIAs 53 
Yines long: Calix and leaves covered with an equal quan- 
tity of pubescence, segments, after the manner of the ge- 
nus oblique and convolute, the 2:smaller lacinie scarcely 
: visible in the fruiting calix, sufficiently distinct in the un- 
expanded flowers. Capsule cylindric-oblo 
pubescent, central suture of the valves 
2 *montand. Adult plants partly smooth, an 
pitose; leaves longer, filiform, and subulate, subimbri- 
cate; peduneles terminal, solitary; calix campanulate, la- 
nuginous, segments acuminate, smaller ones longer and 
subulate; capsule villous, mostly 3-seediedy valves ovate, 
partly septiferous. Has. On the hi 
the mountains of North Carolina, formin; 
pitose patches; abundant on the romantic | 
“Tuble-Rock, 2 singularly elevated and isolated 
the Catawba. ridge, in company with Rh 
biense, &e. Avery distinct species which I 
ly compared with the preceding. v. 2. On 
5, inethes high, decumbent. Leave: 
than those of the preceding species, 2 
appearing akmost ‘smooth. Pedunct 
is about an inchlJong. Flower mor 
’_,» the .preceding, with a lanuginous 4) 
is conspict 
anthemum, b 
receding. 
-... 3. "tomentosa. Cespitose, and canescently tomentose; 
“eaves minute, closely imbricated, ovate acute, shorter 
_thaa the intervals of the stem; flowers aggregated, subses- 
“sile; ealix subcylindric, segments obtuse; capsule 1-seed- 
alves ovate,.smooth. Hap. On the drift-sands of 
very distinct species. O88. intricate and densel 
ee awe se so as to arrest the motion of the sand in which 
‘they grow; the wholé plant silvery grey ahd tomentose, 
young stems. white with a dense tomentum. Leaves 
stg a line long and comes ly * 
that the: points are ——— visible ; 
ler segments obsolete. Stamina from 14to 18. ¢ 
8 sided, smooth and polished, 1-seeded; valves furmishec 
with distinctmedial sutures- obsoletely granular. 
A North American genus. sa ee 
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