SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with crested tips, within the blossom; the leaves grow by fours, are harsh, and of a whitish green; the flowers are globular, in bunches, and are, as well as their cups, purple.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, upright, a foot and a half high, and very branching; the branches are harsh, upright, and twisted.
Leaves grow by fours, are of a whitish green, and bent inwards, furrowed beneath, harsh, and slightly sawed at the edge.
Flowers grow at the ends of the branches, mostly by fours, in bunches, and nodding; the foot-stalks are long and purple, having three floral leaves.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets egg-shaped, keeled, and pressed to the blossom.
Blossom globular, purple, and squared at the base; the border four-lobed, the segments of which are upright, and equal.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads fixed into the receptacle. The tips crested, and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-vessel globular, large, and furrowed; the shaft nearly without the blossom, tapering from the base; the summit four-cornered.