Hudsonia. ' CISTACE^. 191 



Chapm. 1. c.i Cistiis Carollnianus, Walt. Car. 152; Vent. Descr. PI. Nouv. Jard. Cels, t. 74. 

 Crocanthemum Carolinianum, Spach, Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 2, vi. 370. — Sandy pine woods, near 

 the coast, N. Carolina to P'lorida and Texas. 



* * * Pacific species : flowers liomomorphous. 



H. SCOparium, Nutt. A foot or two high, suffrutesceut at base, corymbosely much 

 branched, slender, glabrous or glabrate up to the sparse paniculate inflorescence : leaves 

 narrowly linear, small, often sparse and minute on the filiform branches : sepals minutely 

 canescent or sometimes glandular-puberulent, 3 lines long, outer usually minute : corolla 

 half or two thirds inch in diameter. — Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, Fl. i, 152 ; Lindl. Jour. Hort. 

 Soc. V. 79 ; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 54. Linum trisepalum, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. 

 Sci. iii. 42, f. 10.- — Dry hills through W. California. 



H.* Greenei, Robinson, n. sp. Base ligneous, much branched : stems 6 inches to more 

 than a foot in height : younger parts except the inflorescence densely white woolly : leaves 

 lance-linear, two thirds inch long, a line wide ; margins revolute ; inflorescence a rather close 

 dichotomous cyme, densely covered with dark glandular hairs : calyx villous ; the ovate 

 acuminate inner sepals 3 to 4 lines in length, half longer than the linear outer ones : petals 

 2^ to 4 lines long : stamens about 22 : fruit not seen, said to be as long as the calyx. — 

 H. occldentale, Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. ii. 144, not Nym. — Island of Santa Cruz, off 

 the Californian coast, Greene, Brandegee. 



2. HUDSONIA, L. {William Hudson, author of Flora Anglica.) — 

 E. Nortli American fruticulose plants, with fine heath-like foliage, i. e. leaves very 

 small, sessile, ai^pressed or erect, alternate, closely imbricated on the stems and 

 branches, persistent : flowers small, sessile or pedunculate, terminating crowded 

 short branchlets, expanding in sunshine for one day only : petals yellow (about 

 2 lines long), as also the inner face of the three ovate principal sepals : fl. sum- 

 mer. — Mant, 11, & ii. 514; Willd. Hort. Berol. t. 15; Gray, Gen. 111. i. 

 207, t. 90. 



H. tomentosa, Nutt. (Poverty Grass.) A foot or less high, tomentose-canescent : 

 leaves all appressed, subulate or uppermost broader, thickish, acutish, a line long : flowers 

 sessile or some short-peduncled : sepals obtuse : ovary quite glabrous. — Gen. ii. 5 ; Sweet, 

 Cist. t. 57 ; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. 155 ; Torr. Fl. N. Y. i. 80, t. 9 ; Gray, Gen. Bl. i. 208, t. 90. 

 H. ericoides, Richards, in Frankl. 1st Journ. ed. 1, App. 739 (reprint, p. 11). — Sandy beaches 

 and shores, Virginia to Nova Scotia, shores of all the Great Lakes, and north to Slave 

 Lake, rarely (as in Lee Co., Illinois) on banks of streams inland. 



H. ericoides, L. A span or two high, diffuse, cinereous with loose pubescence, glabrate in 

 age : leaves lax, nearly filiform, the cauline on vigorous shoots commonly 3 lines long : 

 peduncles filiform, as long as the flower: sepals narrow, acutish: ovary pilose or glabrous 

 only near the base. — Mant. 74 ; Berg. Stockholm Acad. Handl. xxxix. t. 1 (1778) ; Lam. 

 111. t. 401; Willd. Hort. Berol. t. 15; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 192; Sweet, Cist. t. 36; Torr. 

 & Gray, 1. c. 154. //. Nuttallii, Don, Syst. i. 315. — Sandy or rocky ground, Virginia 

 to Nova Scotia along and near the coast, extending into the interior to Conway, New 

 Hampshire.^ 



H. montana, Nutt. 1. c. A span high, green, minutely pubescent, only the calyx villous- 

 tomentose : leaves erect, nearly filiform, 2 or 3 lines long : flowers short-peduncled, com- 

 paratively large : sepals ovate, acuminate, sometimes 2-pointed : ovary soft-villous. — Torr. 

 & Gray, Fl. i. 155 ; Chapm. Fl. 36. — On the small summit of Table Mountain, N. Carolina; 

 first coll. by Nutlall. 



1 Add Meehan, Native Flowers, ser. 2, ii. 77, t. 19. 



2 Add syn. ^.11. Aldersonii, Greene, Erythea, i. 259. If Prof. Greene's species is represented as 

 appears from character by Dr. Palmer's no. 18 from the same re£;ion, it is v/ith little doubt merely a 

 southern and more leafy form of IT. scopnrimn, at least siich was Dr. Gray's view. 



8 Also at Burlington Bay, Lake Chaniplain, Grout, Jones & Egtjleston. 



