SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with beardless tips, without the blossom; leaves grow by fours, are sharp pointed, and bent back at the point; the blossoms are cylindrically club-shaped, grow in whorls, and orange coloured.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, rather more than a foot high, upright, and simple at the base; the branches grow in whorls, are simple and upright.
The Leaves grow by fours, are linear, smooth, bent downward at the point, which is sharp, smooth on the upper, and furrowed on the under surface, half an inch long, with the footstalks pressed to the branches.
The Flowers grow in whorls about the middle of the branches, straight out; the whorls rise out of each other in succession; the foot-stalks are long, having three floral leaves.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets lance-shaped, tapered, keel-shaped, clammy, and pressed to the blossom.
Blossom, cylindrically club-shaped, an inch long and orange coloured; the segments of the mouth are four, which are rolled back, the upper longer than the lower ones.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads, fixed into the receptacle. Tips beardless, very large, and without the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-vessel club-shaped, and furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped, and longer than the chives. Summit, four-cornered.