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HUDSONIA ericoides.
Heath-like Hudsonia.
HUDSONIA. Calyx tubulosus 5-partitns : segmentis 2 externis
minutis. Petala 5. Stamina 9-30 : filamenta filiformia ; antheræ
parvulæ, bilobæ, longitudinaliter déhiscentes. Stylus suberectus
simplex staminibus æqualis. Stigma simplex. Capsula 1-locularis,
3-valvis, 1-3 sperma, oblonga vel obovata, coriacea, lævis vel pubes-
cens. Semina granulata. Embryo in albumine corneo immersus.—
Suffrutices paroi, soepiùs ceespitosi, Folia alterna, parvula, subulata,
acerosa, imbricata, exslipulata. Flores subsessiles vel pedunculati ;
pedunculi uniflori, solitarii terminalesque vel lateraliter aggregati.
DC. prodr. 1. p. 284. nonnullis mutatis.
H. ericoides, pubescens, caule snffruticoso suberecto : ramis elon-
gatis, foliis filiformibus snbulatis subimbricatis, pedunculis lateraliter
è gemmis foliaceis solitariis, calycibus cylindricis obtusis,
capsulis pubescentibus semper monospermis, valvulis oblongis.
DC. prodr. 1. p. 285.
Hudsonia ericoides. Linn, mant. 74. Lam. ill. t. 407. Willd. sp.
pl. 2. p. 858. Hort. berol. 1.15. Pers. syn. 2. p. 6. Pùrshjl. amer,
sept. 2. p. 364. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 3. p . 146, 147. Nuttall gen.
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 together.
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