Thesium prostratum A.W.Hill

Stems numerous, prostrate from the apex of a slender erect rootstock, glabrous, terete; branchlets ascending, very slender, sparingly leafy; leaves acicular, subacute, terete, 4-6 1/2 lin. long, fleshy, glabrous; flowers glomerate at the ends of the branchlets; bracts equalling or longer than the flowers, linear or linear-lanceolate, subacute, glabrous; perianth about 1/2 lin. long; segments triangular, acute, nearly 1/2 lin. long, apex and margins above bearded with papillae; anthers exserted from the perianth-tube, 1/7 lin. long; style nearly 1/4 lin. long, reaching to the middle or top of the anthers; fruits ovoid-globose, 1 3/4 lin. long, conspicuously 10-ribbed, rather delicately reticulate between the ribs.