REFERENCE.
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1. Flos. 2. Calyx, lente auctus. 3. Corolla. 4. Stamina et Pistillum, Anthera una lente aucta. 5. Pistillum, Stigma auctum. |
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath with bearded tips within the blossom; flowers grow whorled, in spikes, hanging down; blossoms an inch long, cylindrical, of a whitish green, four-furrowed at the base and narrowed at the mouth, which is dark-green; leaves grow by fours or sixes, curved, spreading and smooth.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, very upright, grows three feet high; the large branches are few and upright; the small branches grow in whorles and are simple.
Leaves of the small branches grow mostly by fours, those on the large by sixes, linear, smooth, curved, pointed, spreading; with very short foot-stalks, pressed to the stem.
Flowers grow at the top of the branches, close to the stem, in spikes, tiled, hanging down; foot-stalks curved, having three skinny floral leaves on them.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets egg-shaped, pointed, skinny at the edge, and pressed to the blossom.
Blossom cylindrical, narrowed at the top, squared and furrowed at the base, an inch long, of a whitish green, and dark green at the end.