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HUDSONIA ericoides, 



Heath-like Hudsonia. 



HUDSONIA. Calyx tubulosus 5-partitus : segmentis 2 externis 

 minutis. Petala 5. Stamina 9-30 : filamenta filiformia ; antberae 

 parvulae, bilobae, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Stylus suberectus 

 simplex staminibus requalis. Stigma simplex. Capsula 1-locularis, 

 3-valvis, 1-3 sperma, oblonga vel obovata, coriacea, laevis vel pubes- 

 cens. Semina granulata. Embryo in albumine corneo immersus. 

 Suffrutices parvi, scepitis ctespitosi. Folia alterna, parvula, subulata, 

 acerosa, imbricata, exstipulata. Flores subsessiles vel pedunculati ; 

 pedunculi uniflori, solitarii terminalesque vel lateraliter aggregati. 

 DC. prodr. 1. p. 284. nonnullis mutatis. 



H. ericoides, pubescens, caule suffruticoso suberecto : ramis elon- 

 gatis, foliis filiformibus subulatis subimbricatis, pedunculis late- 

 raliter e gemmis foliaceis solitariis, calycibus cylindricis obtusis, 

 capsulis pubescentibus semper monospermis, valvulis oblongis. 

 DC. prodr. l./>.285. 



Hudsonia ericoides. Linn. mant. 74. Lam. ill. t. 407. Willd. sp. 

 pi. 2. p. 858. Hort. berol. 1. 15. Pers. syn. 2. p. 6. Purshfl. amer. 

 sept. 2. p. 364. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 3. p. 146, 147. Nuttallgen. 

 amer. 2. p. 4? 



A short densely branched suffruticose plant, from a 

 span to near a foot in height; branches erect, elongated, 

 thickly clothed with leaves, and densely crowded to- 

 gether. Leaves, like some species of Heaths, subulately 

 linear, more or less imbricate, becoming more patent 

 as they advance in age, and remaining persistent for 2 

 or 3 years ; thickly clothed with spreading white hairs, 

 as is every other part of the plant, except the corolla; 

 this gives the whole plant a sort of hoary appearance. 

 Peduncles solitary, one-flowered, each proceeding from 

 the side of one of the gemmae, or little tufts of leaves, 

 with which the branches are crowded, and some of 

 which afterwards lengthen out into shoots; when the 

 flowers first expand, the peduncles are very short, but 



