Huihonia. CISTACE.E. I'Jl 



Cliapm. 1. c.i CVs/«.s Carolinianus, Walt. Car. 152; Vent. Dcscr. PI. Nouv. Jard. Celt*, t. 74. 

 Crocaiilhemum Carol inlaniim, Spacli, Aun, Sci. Nat. ser. 2, vi. 370. — Sandy pine woods, near 

 the coast, N. Carolina to Florida and Texas. 



# * * racittc spei'ies : flowers homoniorphou.s. 



H- SCOparium, Nctt. a foot or two high, snlTrntcscent at hone, corynibosely much 

 branc lud, slender, glabrou.s or glabrate up to the .xparse i)ani<ulate inHorc'.>iC<Mice : leaves 

 narrowly linear, small, often sj)arse and minute on the liliforni branches : sepals minutc-ly 

 cancscent or sometimes glaiulular-pubernlent, 3 lines long, outer usually tniuulc: corolla 

 half or two thirds inch in diameter. — Nutt. in Torr. & Ciray, Fl. i. \:>2 ; Lindl. Jour, llort. 

 iSoc. V. 79; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 54. Limim trisc/ntluin, Kellogg, I'roc. Calif. Aca«l. 

 Sci. ill. 42, f. 10.- — Dry hills througli W. California. 



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

 than a fdOt in height : younger parts except the intloresconce densely white woolly : leaves 

 lance-linear, two tliirds inch long, a line wide ; margins revolute ; iuHorcscencc a rathCr close 

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

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

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

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

 the Californian coast, Greene, Brandegte. 



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

 E. North American frnticulose plants, with fine iieath-like foliage, i. e, leaves very 

 small, sessile, appressed or erect, alternate, closely imliricateil on the steiu.s and 

 branches, persistent : flowers small, sessile or peduncuhite, 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 : tl. sum- 

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

 207, t. 90. 



H. tomentosa, Nutt. (Povkrty Guass.) A foot or less high, tomeutose-canescent : 

 leaves all appressed, subulate or uppermost broader, thickish, a<.utish, 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 ; Gr.ay, Gen. 111. i. 208, t. W. 

 II. ericoides, Richards, in Frankl. 1st .Journ. ed. 1, App. 739 (reprint, p. 1 1 ). — 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 iiigh, diffuse, cinereous with loose pubescence, glabrate in 

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

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

 only near the ba.«e. — Mant. 74; Berg. Stockholm Acad. Ilandl. xxxix. t. 1 (1778); Lam. 

 Ill.t. 401; Willd. Hort. Rerol. t. 15; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t 192; Sweet, Ci.<t. t. ;?f. : Torr. 

 & Gray, 1. c. 154. //. Nittlal/ii, Don, Syst. i. .115. —Sandy or rocky groun<l, Virginia 

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

 Hampshire.-' 

 H. montana, Nctt. 1. c. A .sp.an high, green, minutely pubescent, only tlie cnlyx villoui*- 

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

 paratively large : sepals ovate, acuminate, sometinies 2-pointcd : ovary suft-villous. — Torr. 

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

 first coll. by Nuttall 



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



2 AH.l .syn. ?£r. ^ We rsonu, Greene, Erythf-n, i. 259. ii ...... v...,,, .^ -, 



appears from character by Dr. Palmer's no. 18 from the s.ime region, it is with little doubt merely a 

 .southern and more l.-iify form of ff. sropariitm, at least such w.-ls Dr. Gray's view. 



8 Also at Burlington Bay, Lake Clianiplain, t.'rnul, Jotus Si F.<jijUston. 



