DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, just within the blossom. Flowers grow singly, sessile, at the ends of the branches; between club and cylinder-shaped, curved, downy. Leaves by fours, thin, blunt, fringed with hair at the edges, and furrowed beneath. Stem flexible, upright. Branches scattered, thread-shaped, numerous, hairy.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from April till July.
REFERENCE.
1. The empalement and floral leaves.
2. The chives detached from the pointal, one tip magnified.
3. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
4. The seed-bud magnified.
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