SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with beardless tips, within the blossom. Flowers tubular, and grow in umbels. Blossoms of a pale colour. Leaves by threes, and downy.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem low, shrubby, half a foot high. The small and large branches are numerous, and spreading.
Leaves by threes, awl-shaped and downy, flat on the upper surface, furrowed beneath, and of a whitish green.
Flowers terminate the branches in umbels of from three to six, nearly sessile, and furnished with three lance-shaped floral leaves.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved; leaflets spathula-shaped, and of a pale colour.
Blossom tubular, of a yellowish white colour, and standing in a horizontal direction. Segments of the border roundish, and between erect and spreading.
Chives. Eight hair-like filaments; tips beardless, and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped. Shaft without the blossom, and thread-shaped. Summit four-cornered.