Thesium juncifolium A.Dc.

Subshrub, 1-2 ft. high; stem much-branched from the base; branches wiry, more or less dichotomously divided, slender, minutely pustulate, terete, with rather long internodes, glabrous; leaves very small and subulate, closely adpressed to the stem, acute, about 3/4 lin. long, mostly rather black when dry, glabrous; inflorescences very slender, subdichotomously branched; cymules 3-6-flowered; peduncle free from the bract; bracts similar to the leaves, the one immediately subtending the flower forming with the two bracteoles a cup-like involucre; bracteoles very small, much shorter than the flower, subulate-lanceolate, acute; flower 1 1/2 lin. long, subturbinate; perianth 3/4 lin. long; segments 1/2 lin. long, triangular, with ciliolate margins, thickened at the apex but not hooded; anthers about 1/6 lin. long; style stout, 1/4 lin. long.