SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath with bearded tips, within the blossom; shaft without, flowers grow in very close, tiled spikes, horizontal and close to the stem; blossom club-shaped, an inch and a half long, white with green ends; leaves grow by fours, awl-shaped, smooth.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem grows very upright, stiff, and two feet high; branches few, upright; small branches grow in whorls, spreading and numerous.
Leaves grow by fours, awl-shaped, smooth, spreading, foot-stalks very short and pressed to the stem.
Flowers grow in spikes near the end of the branches, tiled, without foot-stalks, and horizontal.
Empalement. Cup double; the outer, three-leaved, leaflets spatula-shaped, concave, fleshy and tiled; the inner, four-leaved leaflets inversely-heart-shaped, concave, with a small pointed end.
Blossom club-shaped, of a whitish green, an inch and a half long; segments blunt, upright.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads, the length nearly of the blossom. Tips bearded within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud top-shaped, furrowed and glandular at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, just without the blossom, curved at the end. Summit bluntly four-cornered.