SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with beardless tips within the blossom, blossoms crowdedly-whorled cylindric clammy roughish, and leaves in sixes and expanded.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, upright, with the branches chiefly simple, erect, and rigid.
Leaves in sixes, linear, obtusely pointed, expanded, or finally bent downwards.
Flowers springing from near the ends of the branches, crowdedly whorled from the bosoms of the leaves, shortly peduncled, and horizontal.
Empalement four-leaved, clammy, with awl-shaped leaflets, pressed to the blossom, with three floral leaves pressed to them.
Blossom cylindrical, an inch long or upwards, deep green, clammy, and roughish, with segments rolled back.
Chives eight, hair-like; tips beardless, within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, downy: shaft thread-shaped; summit four-cornered.