REFERENTIA.
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1. Flos. 2. Calyx, auctus. 3. Stamina et Pistillum. 4. Idem, auctum. 5. Germen, auctum. |
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with beardless tips, within the blossom; blossoms tubular bell-shaped, purple; flowers grow in whorls, from the insertion of the leaves, nearly terminal and hanging down; foot-stalks thrice the length of the blossom, hair-like and coloured; leaves grow by sixes, obliquely-whorled, linear, slender, tremulous.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem upright, a foot and a half high; branches grow in whorls, simple, upright-spreading, thread-shaped, long.
Leaves grow by sixes, obliquely whorled, tremulous, linear, slender, smooth and pointed, foot-stalks hair-like.
Flowers grow from the insertion of the leaves, near the end of the branches in whorls, very numerous, almost making a spike; foot-stalks very long, thread-shaped, purple, with three floral-leaves, set at a distance and lance-shaped on them.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets linearly-awl-shaped, pressed to the blossom, with the ends green, widened at the base and fringed.
Blossom tubularly-bell-shaped, purple, half an inch long, widened at the top; border spreading; segments blunt and reflexed.