stem suffruticose, cæspitose, multifid, densely imbricated throughout with leaves; leaves connato-vaginate, from a broad base shortly subulate or lanceolate-attenuate, fleshy, with subrecurved margins, glabrous; cymules few flowered, capitate, sessile, terminating the leafy branches; calyx-lobes linear, ciliolate; petals connate below, tapering above into long, lanceolate points; stigma subsessile; squamæ flabelliform, stipitate. 2–3 inches high, dividing from the crown into many, short, forked, corymbose branches, closely leafy throughout like those of Lycopodium Selago, the narrow points of the leaves spreading or squarrose. Flowers 3–5, at the ends of the branches, white; the narrow lobes of the corolla twice or thrice as long as the calyx.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Elandsfontein, Zeyher! (Herb. Hk. Sd.)
