SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath with crested tips, within the blossom; shaft within; flowers terminate the branches by fours; blossoms globular, and purple; cup reflexed; leaves grow by fours, fringed and flaccid.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem weak, a foot and a half high; branches many, twiggy; smaller branches very numerous, upright-spreading.
Leaves grow by fours, linear, fringed and flaccid, slightly furrowed beneath, with very short foot-stalks.
Flowers grow by fours at the end of the smaller branches, nodding and purple; the foot-stalks thread-shaped the length of the flowers, having three floral leaves.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets awl-shaped, reflexed and coloured at the base.
Blossom globular, purple, smooth; segments of the border very small, obtuse, upright.
Chives. Threads hair-like. Tips crested, within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud top-shaped, furrowed, dark purple. Shaft thread-shaped, within the blossom, a little longer than the chives. Summit four-cornered.