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73. H. cilidtum (Pers. syn. 2. p. 79.) Stem Suffrutescent, decumbent : 

 branches clothed with a white tomentum ; leaves ovately lanceolate or lan- 

 ceolately oblong, margins slightly revolute, underneath clothed with white 

 tomentum, the upper side hairy ; stipules greenish, longer than the footstalks ; 

 calyx membranaceous ; inner sepals nerved and furrowed ; nerves elevated, 

 glandularly hairy. 1?. Native of Spain, Italy, and the North of Africa. 

 Cistus ciliatus. Desf. fl. atl. 1. p. 421. t. 109. Petals rose-coloured. 



74. H. asperum (DC. prodr. 1. p. 283.) Stem Suffrutescent, branch- 

 ing : branches long, ascending, or more or less erect, somewhat tomentose, 

 roughish, ash-coloured ; leaves on footstalks, oblong, taper-pointed, mar- 

 gins revolute, underneath clothed with short white wool, the upper side 

 green, somewhat woolly, roughish, setose at the point; stipules awl-shaped, 

 bristle-pointed ; angles of the calyx clothed with bristly hairs, the hairs long 

 and numerous, f?. Native of Spain. Petals white. 



. Roiiss'ai (DC. loc. cit.) Stem, leaves and calyx very hairy, hairs 

 white, fj. Native of the Levant. Rousseau. 



75. H. majorancefblium (DC. prodr. 1. p. 283.) Suffrutescent, erect, 

 very much branched : branches hairy, and clothed with white wool ; leaves 

 on footstalks, ovately oblong, somewhat pointed, margins revolute, under- 

 neath clothed with a white tomentum, the upper side of a bluish green, 

 tomentosely hairy ; stipules subulate, bristle-pointed ; calyx very hairy, the 

 hairs white, f?. Native of the South of France. Petals white. 



76. H. hirsutum (DC. prodr. 1. p. 284.) Suffrutescent, stipulate, hairy; 

 leaves on footstalks, white underneath : lower ones rounded : upper ones 

 lanceolate, acute ; flowers in a terminal raceme, generally facing all to one 

 side.T? . Native of rocky mountains on the Eastern Pyrenees. Cistus hir- 

 sutus. Lapeyrouse abr. 303. Flowers large, white. 



* Doubtful Species. 



77. H. oligophy'llum (DC. prodr. 1. p. 284.) Frutescent, stipulate; 

 leaves on footstalks, ovately lanceolate, nerveless, entire at the margins, 

 rough, the margins revolute; flower-stems 1 flowered. I?- Native near 

 Jaffa ; petals yellow. 



HUDSONIA. Supra folio 36. 

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1. H. Nuttdllii. Equally pubescent; stem erect, much branched ; leaves 

 about 2 lines long, filiform, somewhat imbricate, but distinct from the stem, 

 flower-stalks lateral, crowded, when in fruit from 5 to 8 lines long; calyx 

 cylindrical, obtuse, and as well as the leaves clothed with an equal quan- 

 tity of pubescence : segments oblique and convolute, the 2 smaller ones 

 scarcely visible in the fruiting calyx, sufficiently distinct in the unexpanded 

 flowers; capsule cylindric-oblong, externally pubescent, always 1-seeded; 

 valves oblong, the central suture obsolete.??. Abundant over the barren 

 sandy woods of New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, (Nuttall.) 

 H. ericoides. Nuttall. gen. and spec. amer. 2. p. 4. scarcely of others ; his 

 description at any rate does not agree with any that we have examined. 



2. H. montdna (Nutt. gen. amer. 2. p. 5.) Old plants partly smooth, 

 tufted ; stems 3 to 5 inches long, decumbent ; leaves about a line longer than 

 those of the preceding species, nearly smooth, filiform, subulate, somewhat 

 imbricate ; flower- stalks terminal, solitary, about an inch long when in 

 fruit ; flowers more than twice the size of the preceding ; calyx bell-shaped, 

 woolly : segments taper-pointed, smaller ones longer and subulate, con- 



