erect, 1–2 ft. high; branches spreading or subvirgate, puberulous, and also pilose (intermixed with longer hairs); leaves 4-nate, from suberect to spreading, linear, slender, faintly sulcate, roughly hirsute, 1 1/2–2 lin. long; flowers 4-nate; pedicels hirsute, 1/2–1 lin. long; bracts remote, small, sometimes one, or two, wanting; sepals from ovate to linear, hirsute, 1/2–1 lin. long; corolla subcampanulate, cyathiform or obconic, widened to the mouth, hirsute, pale rosy, about 1 lin. long; limb ample, slightly spreading or erect, from equal to the tube to about 1/2 its length; filaments capillary, bent below the anther; anthers included, dorsifixed above the base, oblong, about 1/5 lin. long, about 2 1/2 times as long as broad, aristate; awns slender, rough-edged, straight or divaricate, nearly as long as or a little longer than the cells; style included or rarely just visible, slender; stigma capitellate; ovary glabrous. null
