SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with bearded tips, without the blossom, and adhering together: flowers terminal, in umbels: footstalks very long: blossom long, ribbed, and purple: leaves by threes: stem low.
DESCRIPTION.
A dwarf shrub, very branching: the small and large branches are spreading.
Leaves spreading, grow by threes, are broadly linear, and obtuse, furrowed beneath, with revolute edges that are beset with long hairs and glands.
Flowers terminate the branches in umbels, spreading: footstalks very long, with three floral leaves pressed to them.
Empalement four-leaved: leaflets narrow, and glandular at the point.
Blossom an inch long, of a pyramidal form, ribbed, and purple, swelled near the end, and attenuated towards the base; narrowed at the mouth, which is black; the segments are oblique, and rolled back.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads: tips bearded, without the blossom, and adhering together.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, and green, with honey-cups at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, and without the blossom. Summit concave.