REFERENTIA.
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1. Flos, magnitudine naturali. 2. Calyx. 3. Calyx, lente auctus. 4. Corolla, Stamina et Pistillum. 5. Stamina, valdè aucta. 6. Pistillum, auctum. |
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath with tips two-horned at the base, far without the blossom and dark purple; shaft without; blossoms egg-shaped, shorter than the tiled cup; flowers grow by threes, sitting close upon the ends of the branches and white; leaves grow by threes, smooth, three-sided, and tiled in six divisions.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem upright, near a foot high, smooth; branches few, upright; small branches simple, grow nearly in whorls and stiff.
Leaves grow by threes, three-sided, blunt, smooth, a little turned inwards, rather spreading, forming six angles, thickish.
Flowers grow in threes at the end of the small branches, sitting close, and of a shining white.
Empalement. Cup double, the outer three-leaved, leaflets roundish, waved, coloured, and rather spreading; the inner four-leaved, leaflets keeled, pressed to the blossom, concave, roundish, the length of the blossom.
Blossom egg-shaped, smooth, skinny, white, a little shorter than the cup; the segments of the border upright.