Thesium glomeratum A.W.Hill

Stems ascending, slender, sparingly branched, very slightly scabrid-puberulous; branches slender, sulcate, glabrous or nearly so; leaves linear, acute, flat or concave on the upper surface, sometimes keeled below, 3-4 lin. long, glabrous or slightly scabrous on the margins; flowers in very short racemes or in small terminal heads; bracts ovate-lanceolate, acute, about as long as the flowers, keeled, with membranous very minutely ciliate margins; bracteoles about two-thirds the length of the bracts, narrower but otherwise similar; perianth 1 1/2-1 3/4 lin. long; segments 1/2 lin. long, linear-lanceolate, acute, with a dense apical beard; anthers included in the perianth-tube, 3/4 lin. long; style 3/4 lin. long, reaching almost to the top of the anthers; fruits oblong, scarcely 3 lin. long, greenish when dry, subconspicuously 5-ribbed, especially near the base, with nearly invisible intermediate ribs.