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of round, tough, creeping, sparingly leafy stems, bearing 
numerous other erect stems, which are repeatedly branched 
in a dichotomous manner, growing er^t, from three to six 
inches high. The colour of the plant is a bright pleasant 
green. The smaller branches are set more or less closely 
with the small smooth sessile leaves, whose form is lance- 
shaped, ending in a point ; they are of a thickish texture, 
and are rounded off at the back and hollowed out in front 
where they fit against the stem. On the dichotomous 
branches, just mentioned, the leaves are closely placed, the 
lower ones lying over the bases of those next above them, 
but they are arranged in four tolerably regular lines, so as 
to give a squarish form to the branches. The little fascicles 
of branches are for the most part level-topped^ those which 
bear spikes of fructification being longer than the barren 
ones and twice dichotomous ; the fruit-spikes, which 
exceed half an inch in length, are rather thicker than 
the branch. 
The fructification consists of the little spikes just men- 
tioned, which terminate a portion of the branches, and are 
erect, close, cylindrical, of a yellowish-green colour, and 
sessile on the branches, that is, joined to the leafy 
portion below, without any intermediate stalk-like con- 
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