i6o A GUIDE TO THE WILD FLOWERS 



480. FALSE HEATHER. HUDSONIA. 



Low, almost woody, herbs of dry sandy places, with tiny 

 and densely crowded leaves, needle-like in one species, and 

 tightly compressed and scale-like in the other. Flowers small, 

 yellow, usually fairly numerous, but individual ones terminat- 

 ing tiny flower stalks, or almost stalkless. Petals 5, spread- 

 ing. (Cistaccac.) Related plants will be found at Nos. 291 

 and 334. 

 Flowers obviously slender stalked ; leaves needle like. 



481. False Heather or Poverty Grass. Hudsonia cricoidcs. 

 A bushy branched low, almost woody perennial, green and 

 softly haired throughout. Leaves crowded, but separate, 

 needle-like, scarcely ^ in. long. Flowers about Y^ in. wide, 

 the yellow petals pointed. In dry sand, especially under pine 

 or oak trees. Newfoundland to Virginia, mostly along the 

 coast. June. 



Flov^^ers almost stalkless ; leaves scale like ; plant ashy grey. 



482. False Heather. Hudsonia tomentosa. Similar in habit 

 to No. 481, but the scale-like leaves tightly pressed against 

 the twigs, the whole plant ashy grey. Flowers essentially 

 stalkless, yellow, the petals rounded. Sand dunes and other 

 sandy places, mostly in the open. New Brunswick to Vir- 

 ginia, and westward. June. Fig. 482. 



