Thesium selagineum A.Dc.

Branches slender and straggling, slightly angular or subterete, very minutely puberulous; leaves all recurved, acicular, flattened on the upper surface, subterete, acute, 2 lin. long or less, glabrous; flowers sessile in small clusters at the apices of the shoots; bracts and bracteoles about equal in length to the flowers, linear-lanceolate, acute to acuminate; perianth with conspicuous external glands between the segments, 2/3 lin. long; segments triangular-ovate, obtuse, 3/8 lin. long, shortly bearded, with papillose margins; anthers exserted perianth-tube, 1/8 lin. long; style stout, 1/8 lin. long, reaching to the middle of the anthers; fruit ovoid ellipsoid, contracted at the base, 1 1/2 lin. long, slightly 10-ribbed, distinctly reticulate between the ribs.