stem erect, simple or branched, hairy or glabrous above; leaves alternate, sessile, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, lower ones angustate at the base, petiolate, marginate, dentate or serrate, acute; peduncles elongate, leafless, simple or dichotomous, few-flowered; pedicels filiform; tube of calyx hemispherical, lobes lanceolate-acuminate, twice larger than the tube; corolla infundibuliform, twice larger than the calyx; capsule globose. Perennial herb. Small specimens, 3–4 inches high, mostly simple, larger ones 1–1 1/2 foot, more or less, but not much branched. Leaves in var. α. et β. more numerous near the base; the lowest much attenuated to the base, about 1 inch long, 3–4 lines broad; in other specimens smaller. Middle leaves 1– 1/2 inch long, 2–1 line wide. In var. γ. the lower leaves are not broader than the upper ones. Peduncles terete, varying with 3-flowered to a dichotomously many-flowered loose panicle. Pedicels short, or 1 inch long. Calyx-tube 1 line, lobes 2 lines long. Corolla blue, 1/2 inch long and broad, with acute lobes. Style without glands near the stigma. Capsule the size of a small pea.
