"A minute shortly and loosely creeping glabrous plant giving off at intervals scattered few-leaved flowering-stems. Leaves few, very narrow linear, 8-12 mm. long, nerveless, expanded below into a striate sheath. Scapes solitary (rarely in twos), very slender, 5 mm. long when in flower, lengthening to 12 mm. in fruit; bracts 4-5, short, very narrow linear. Heads solitary, small, 1 mm. long, and broad; involucral scales 8-10, shortly oblong, obtuse or sometimes subacute, greenish at the middle, with broad hyaline margins, obscurely 3-nerved; flowers minute, 5-6, not exceeding the scales. Achenes narrow, spindle-shaped, distantly but not deeply ribbed, almost as long as the scales."
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