HUDSONIA tomentosa.
Tomentose Hudsonia.
H . tomentosa, csespitosa et incano-tomentosa, caulibus mtricatis den-
sis, foliis minutis dense irabricatis ovato-acutis, floribus aggregates
’ subsessilibus, calycibus subcylindricis partitionibus obtusis,
capsulis monosperrais, valvis ovatis lasvibus. DC. prodr. 1. p. 285.
Hudsonia tomentosa. N u tt.g en .2 .p .h . Spreng. syst.2. p.452. bwt.
hort. brit. add. p. 469.
A short, densely tufted suffruticose plant, about a span
high ■ branches short, crowded, ascending, densely to-
raentose, and thickly clothed with leaves, which are persistent,
and remain on long after they are turned brown,
so that the branches are always crowded with them.
Leaves crowded, minute, scarcely a line m length, closely
imbricated, oblong or ovate, acute, densely clothed
with a white silky tomentum, which gives the plant a
sort of silvery appearance. Flowers small, of a pale
bright yellow, sessile or on very short footstalks, each
s e S on one of the little gemnne, or email tufte of
leaves with which the branches are crowded, so that
when they are expanded they appear in clusters. Calyx
cylindrical, 5-cleft, clothed with a silky tomentum, the
segments obtuse, two of them much smaller than the
others. Petals 5, distinctly spreading, obovate, concave,
longitudinally lined. Stamens from 10 to 18; filaments
slender, smooth, longer than the style, but scarcely so
long as the petals. Ovarium 3-sided, smooth, and glossy.
Style smooth, erect. Stigma simple. .
Our drawing of this rare plant was made m July
last, at the Nursery of Mr. Colvill, where several plants
of it have been lately received from North America,; it
was first discovered by Mr. Nuttall, and described by
him in his Genera of North American Plants, in 1818,
where he notices it as a very distinct species, growing
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