Erica bergiana L.

Erect, 1-3 ft. high; branches mostly virgate, hirsute; leaves generally spreading, linear, obtuse, sulcate, or subopen-backed, rough with tubercle-based hairs, or sometimes smooth and subglabrous, ciliate, 1 1/2-3 lin. long; flowers 4-nate; pedicels pubescent, red, 1 1/2-3 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals from a broad ovate scarious lacerate ciliate base, tapering into a shorter or longer foliaceous green cusp, 1/2-1 1/4 lin. long; corolla urceolate-globose, or in smaller specimens subovoid, red, 13/4-3 1/2 lin. long; segments erect or slightly spreading, ovate to semi-orbicular, imbricate at the base, 1/4-1/3 as long as the tube; anthers included, dorsifixed mostly rather high above the base, subovate, very obtusely rounded at the top, smoothish, ciliate or naked, 1/5 to nearly 1/2 lin. long, cristate or subaristate, the appendage broad-lanceolate, lacerate or subulate and fringed; pore 2/5-1/2 as long as the cell; style included or slightly exserted; stigma capitate; ovary on a broad disk, glabrous.