erect, slender, somewhat variable in habit and appearance, from 6 to probably 24 in. in height; branches numerous, erect or spreading, or when young and grown in damp places subsimple, virgate, and very slender with fewer and smaller flowers, glabrous, reddish; leaves commonly 3-nate, rarely 4-nate or opposite on the same plant, erect or subspreading, narrow-linear, acute, keeled, glabrous, 1 1/2–2 1/2 lin. long; flowers generally solitary, corolline; pedicels puberulous, 1–1 1/2 lin. long; bracts remote or subremote, rarely subapproximate; sepals from ovate and acute to lanceolate and long-acuminate, scarious, glabrous, margins mostly naked, rarely ciliate, coloured, 1 1/2–1 3/4 lin. long; corolla very variable in size and shape, tubular-campanulate, cyathiform, broad-cyathiform or suburceolate, bright yellow, more rarely cream-colour, 2 1/2–3 1/2 lin. long; segments erect, more rarely spreading, 1/4– 1/2 the length of the tube; filaments nearly straight, about 1/2 lin. long; anthers oblong-cuneate, obtuse, scaberulous, 1/2– 2/3 lin. long, most generally muticous (said to be “sometimes minutely toothed at base”); pore about 1/2 the length of the cell; style included, sometimes compressed; stigma capitellate, small; ovary glabrous. null
