SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath with beardless tips, without the blossom; shaft without; flowers grow from the insertion of the leaves in terminal bunches, blossoms nearly globular, small, smooth and flesh-coloured; leaves grow by fours, blunt, hairy and spreading,
DESCRIPTION.
Stem upright, a foot high; large and small branches are thread-shaped, upright, harsh, numerous, grow in whorls and hairy.
Leaves grow by fours, linear, blunt, spreading, furrowed beneath, hairy; foot-stalks very short, pressed to the stern.
Flowers grow at the end of the branches in bunches a little drooping and flesh-coloured; bunches from an inch to two inches in length; foot-stalks hair-like, hairy, the length of the blossom; floral leaves at a distance from the cup.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets egg-shaped, blunt, hairy, pressed to the blossom and very short.
Blossom nearly globular; segments of the border upright, very small, blunt.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads. Tips beardless, just without the blossom and brown.
Pointal. Seed-bud top-shaped, furrowed, hairy and glandular at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, without the blossom, longer than the chives. Summit four-cornered,