Japan Flora: Glabrous; scalelike leaves membranous, deltoid; flowers sessile, rather numerous or few, densely fasci­cled; calyx-segments membranous, elliptic, 1-1.5 mm. long, rounded at apex; corolla membranous, broadly campanulate, about twice as long as the calyx, 5-lobed, the tube broad, the scales inconspicuous, the lobes deltoid, obtuse; capsules mem­branous, depressed-globose, about 3 mm. across, enveloped by the persistent corolla at first, often naked when ripe, circum­scissile; styles slender, the stigma oblong, as thick as the style. July-Sept.

Hokkaido. Sakhalin, Siberia, Europe, and Africa.