erect, rigid, much branched, 1–2 1/2 ft. high; branches puberulous, with long hairs sparsely intermixed; leaves erect or spreading, always rigidly curved, linear, acuminate, subpungent, sulcate, pallid, glabrous, 4–7 lin. long; flowers usually 4-nate, sometimes clustered on short branchlets in heads 1/2 in. in diam.; pedicels about 1 1/2 lin. long; bracts approximate, linear, tapering into a long bristle, nearly 1 1/2 lin. long; sepals linear from a broad scarious somewhat toothed base, and tapering upwards into a longer and finer bristle than that of the bracts, 1 3/4–2 lin. long; corolla tubular-suburceolate, slightly asymmetrical, nearly equal at the mouth, more or less pale rosy, 2–2 1/4 lin. long; limb short, erect or very little spreading; filaments bent below the anther; anthers included, oblong, obtuse, scabrid on the margins, 3–3 1/2 times longer than the width at the middle, about 1/2 lin. long, aristate; pore 2/5 the length of the cell; awns setaceous, smooth, about 1/3 the length of the cell; style exserted; stigma capitate; ovary elongate, glabrous. null
