Erica calycina L.

Generally stout, erect, rigid, 1 1/2-2 ft. high, with numerous, ascending, subvirgate, rarely white-pubescent branches; leaves suberect and imbricate, or sometimes spreading, or squarrose-recurved, crowded, linear or narrow-lanceolate, subtrigonous, acute or subobtuse, sulcate, glabrous, ciliolate or naked, mostly 1 1/2-2 lin. long; flowers often crowded on short branchlets, more rarely scanty, calycine or subcalycine; pedicels mostly densely white-tomentose, more or less with plumose hairs intermixed with simple (occurring sometimes on the branches), spreading, 1 1/2-2 1/2) lin. long; bracts subremote (or the lowest remote) to subapproximate, lax or more rarely imbricating the sepals, ovate or oblong, coloured, scarious or cartilaginous, about 1 lin. long; sepals ovate to orbicular or subrhomboidal, imbricate for a greater or less distance from the base upwards, scarious or cartilaginous, keeled or keel-tipped, white, ciliate or naked, 1-1 1/2 lin. long, or mostly from 2/3-3/4 the length of the corolla (rarely 1/2 only); corolla obconic-cyathiform, white, 1 1/2-2 (rarely 2 1/2) lin. long; segments in full flower spreading or recurved, but very soon becoming erect, oblong or ovate, obtuse or subacute, from equal to the tube to a little shorter than it; anthers included, but manifest, terminal or subterminal; cells partite to the base, oblong or semilanceolate, acute or obtuse, scaberulous, 2/3-1 lin. long, cristate; pore 1/2-2/3 the length of the cell; crests free, coarsely toothed or incised or crested-aristate; awns free, short, subulate, ciliate or hairy; style stout, straight, shortly exserted; stigma simple or clavate; ovary pallid, glabrous or hispidulous at the apex.