a small plant 1 to 6 in. high; leaves narrowly linear or subulate, as long as or often longer than the peduncles, sessile, usually dilated at the base, entire or remotely toothed, or distantly and pinnatifidly lobed with short subulate lobes, clothed with long laxly spreading hairs; peduncles terete, slender, suberect, usually shorter than the leaves, laxly and softly pilose with spreading hairs; spikes dense, subglobose or ovoid oblong, 2–8 lin. long; rhachis densely clothed with long slender hairs; bracts boat-shaped, rostrate, ovate, acute, with broad scarious margins, 1 3/4 lin. long, hairy on the back; sepals 1–1 1/4 lin. long, suborbicular, quite glabrous; corolla-lobes 1/2 lin. long, suborbicular, quite glabrous; corolla-lobes 1/2 lin. long, ovate-oblong, subacute, glabrous; style 1 lin. long; capsules a little longer than the sepals, ovoid, rounded at the apex, coming off circumscissilely near the base; seeds oblong-ellipsoid, 1/2 lin. long, rounded on the back, flattened on the face, black. null
