stem erect, branched, leafy, hairy, naked and glabrous at the apex; leaves sessile, alternate, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, marginate, quite entire or obsoletely denticulate, coriaceous; peduncles elongated, dichotomous, pedicels longish, 1-flowered; tube of calyx hemispherical, glabrous; lobes ovate, lanceolate, ciliolate; corolla infundibuliform, 5-fid, twice longer than the calyx-lobes; capsule obovoid. Perennial (Zey.), 2–3 feet high, near the preceding, but stem and branches more slender, leaves smaller, not undulated nor crenated, and calyx-tube larger. Stems with spreading hairs. Leaves scattered, not much longer than the internodes, 3/4 inch long, 1 1/2–2 lines wide, with 4–8 very minute teeth on the thickened margins; upper ones very small and linear. Peduncles 3–4 times forked at the apex. Pedicels 1 inch long or longer. Calyx 1–1 1/2 line long, lobes broad at the base. Corolla smaller than in smallest-flowered forms of W. undulata. Capsule 2 lines long, obovoid or nearly hemispherical; the valves short.
