SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with beardless tips, within the blossom; flowers grow singly, hanging down; cups coloured; blossoms globularly bell-shaped, and yellow; leaves grow by fours, are linear, and very narrow.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, grows a foot high, upright, and thread-shaped; the greater and smaller branches are thread-shaped, twiggy, and smooth.
Leaves grow by fours, linear, narrow, smooth, and upright; very short foot-stalks, pressed to the branches.
Flowers grow mostly solitary, at the end of the smaller branches, hanging down; the foot-stalks are coloured, having three awl-shaped, coloured floral leaves on them.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets egg-shaped, pointed, concave, pressed to the blossom, and coloured.
Blossom, globularly bell-shaped, and yellow; the segments half egg-shaped, and a little reflexed.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads, curved inwards. Tips beardless, and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud nearly globe-shaped. Shaft pillar-shaped. Summit four-cornered.