Erica articularis L.

Mostly erect, 1-1 1/2 ft. high; branches usually virgate, not numerous, slender, glabrous, rarely puberulous; leaves 3-nate, erect, mostly incurved and adpressed, generally about equal to the internodes, linear or narrow-lanceolate, keeled or sulcate, mostly 1 1/2-3 lin. long; flowers 3-nate, more or less clustered, often so crowded on short branchlets as to form a dense long pseudo-spike; pedicels slender, 1-1 1/2 lin. long; bracts 2, subremote or subapproximate, linear-subulate to oblanceolate, third subbasal, longer or wanting; sepals obovate, keel-tipped, acute or obtuse, concave, spreading at full maturity, generally reaching from 1/2-3/5 the length of the corolla (including the limb), 3/4-1 1/2 lin. long; corolla suburceolate, only slightly contracted at the throat, sometimes subtetragonous, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; segments erect or spreading, subovate, deep flesh-colour (Andrews), concolorous or dark-coloured, 1/3-1/2 the tube in length; anthers sublateral, almost basifixed; cells deeply parted, semi-ovate or elliptical, 1/5-2/5 lin. long, crested; pore about 1/2 the length of the cell; crests subovate in outline, more or less deeply incised; style included; stigma capitate; ovary lobed.