SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath with beardless tips within the blossom, which is bellied, white, small and narrowed at the mouth, segments spreading; leaflets of the cup fringed; flowers terminal, crowded together in tufts; leaves grow by fours, linear, blunt, and smooth.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, almost a foot high, branching; branches grow twiggy and hang down; small branches short, thread-shaped, numerous.
Leaves grow by fours, blunt, spreading, small and smooth.
Flowers terminate the small branches, forming as it were a thick, tufted spike; foot-stalks very short, floral leaves pressed to the cup.
Empalment. Cup four-leaved, leaflets egg-shaped, pointed, fringed.
Blossom bellied, white, swelled at the base, narrowed at the mouth; segments of the mouth sharp-pointed, spreading.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads, small. Tips beardless, within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud roundish, eight furrowed.
Shaft thread-shaped, within the blossom. Summit four-cornered.