SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with beardless tips, within the blossoms, which are of an inflated tubular shape, closely beset with bristles, and of a yellow colour; leaves by fours, harsh, and prickly.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem upright, two feet high; branches few, the small branches are numerous and simple.
Leaves grow by fours, are lance-shaped, prickly, and deeply furrowed beneath, foot-stalks pressed to the stem.
Flowers terminate the small branches in umbels of from three to six, nodding; peduncles very short, furnished with three floral leaves, hispid, awl-shaped, and pressed to the cup.
Empalement four-leaved; the leaflets are hispid, channelled, and lance-shaped.
Blossom of an inflated tubular form, closely beset with bristles, an inch long; the mouth is slightly divided into four segments.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads; tips beardless, and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-vessel turban-shaped, hairy, and whitish. Shaft thread-shaped. Summit four-cornered.