SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with beardless tips, within the blossom; shaft without; flowers terminate the branches in horizontal whorls; blossoms nearly cylindrical, an inch long, with the segments of the border rolled back; leaves grow by fours, smooth and spreading.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, upright, grows near a foot high, and branching; the branches nearly simple, spreading upright and smooth.
Leaves grow by fours, linear, spreading, furrowed on the under part, flat on the upper part and smooth; the foot-stalks pressed to the branches.
Flowers grow in whorls at the ends of the smaller branches, standing horizontally; the foot-stalks the length of the leaves, having three awl-shaped floral leaves.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, the leaflets are awl-shaped, and pressed to the blossom.
Blossom almost cylinder-shaped, thrice the length of the cup; the segments of the mouth are rolled back.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads. Tips beardless, and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud club-shaped, and furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped and without the blossom. Summit four-cornered.