SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with tips two-horned at the base without the blossom, leaves in threes awl-shaped, and bell-shaped flowers.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, half a foot high, very much branched, with the branches spreading.
Leaves in threes, awl-shaped, erect, glaucous green, plane above, furrowed beneath, with shortish foot-stalks.
Flowers somewhat in threes, lateral and terminal, small, with longish peduncles.
Empalement four-leaved, with the leaflets egg-shaped, sharp-pointed, and keeled; furnished with three floral leaves.
Blossom bell-shaped, sweet-scented, pale purple, with largish revolute segments.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads; tips without the blossom, two-horned at the base.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, villous at the top; shaft without the blossom; summit four-cornered.