POLYANDRIA. MONOGYNlA. -5 



lines long-. Calix and leaves covered with an equal quan- 

 tity of pubescence, segments, after the manner of tlie ge- 

 nus oblique and convolute, the 2 smaller lacinise scarcely 

 visible in tlie fruiting calix, sufficiently dii^tinctin the un- 

 expanded flowers. Capsule cylindric-oblong, externally 

 pubescent, central suture of the valves obsok-te. 



2. *-moiitana. Adult plants partly smooth, and ces- 

 pitose; leaves longer, filiform, and subulate, subimbri- 

 cale; peduncles terminal, solitary; calix campanulate, la- 

 nuginous, segments acuminate, smaller ones longer and 

 subulate; capsvile villous, mostly 3-seeded, valves ovate, 

 partly septiferous. Hab. On t'je highest summits cf 

 the mountains of Morth Carolina, forming extensive ces- 

 piiose patches; abundant on the romantic summit of th© 

 Table-Kock, a singularly elevated ard isolated portion of 

 theCatavv'ba ridge, in company v/>lh Rhododendron Cataiw 

 bieme, See. A very distinct species which 1 have careful- 

 1}' compared with the preceding, v. r. Oes. Stem 3 to 

 5 inches high, decumbent. Leaves about a Une longer 

 than tlinse of the preceding species, and to the nuked eye 

 appearing almost smootli. Peduncles terminal, in fruit 

 ab3at an inch long. Flo'.ver more than twice the size of 

 the preceding, v/ith a lanuginous and campanulate calix, 

 havuig its smaller segmen's conspicuously exserted and 

 distinct. Stamina 25 to .30. Capsule 3 t-mes the size of 

 the preceding, and furnlslud wi h distinct central septi- 

 forni sutures. Seeds granulated, partly angular. — This 

 species approaches to /It\:antheiiiumy but still possesses 

 closely the habit of ihe preceding. 



3. *tomentosa. Cespitose, and canescer-tly tomentose; 

 leaves minute, closely in;bricated, ovate acute, shorter 

 than the intervals of the stem; llowers aggregated, subses- 

 sile; calix subcylindric, segments obtuse; capsule 1-sced- 

 ed, valves ovate, smooth. Hab. On tiie drift-sands of 

 the ocean. New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, &c. A. 

 very distinct species. 6bs. Stems intricate and densely 

 cespitose so^ as to arre.st tiie moiion of the sand in which 

 they grow; the whole piant silvery grey and tomentose, 

 young stem.s white with a dense tomentum- Leaves 

 scarcely a line long and connectivcly imbricated so 

 that the points are scarcely visiljle in profile; flower.^ 

 seesile, conglomerated, biilliant yellow, and much more 

 elegant tlian those of //. ericoides. CaliX silky, the smal- 

 ler'segments obsolete. Stamina from 14 to 13. dpsule 

 3 sidc-a, smooth and polislied, l-secdecl; valves furiiisiied 

 with distinctmedial sutures- Seed ob.^olctely grauukr. 



A North AuiCiicun genus. 



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