Erica cernua Montin

About 1 ft. high or less; branches numerous, widely spreading, subcorymbose, the ultimate flexuous and cernuous, finely puberulous, glabrescent, with occasionally tufts of short subplumose hairs beneath the leaf-cushions; leaves 4-nate, mostly erect, sometimes adpressed, straight or slightly curved, linear, acute or subacute, sulcate, glabrous, the younger ciliate with subplumose hairs, at length naked, 2-3 lin. long; heads 4-8-flowered, cernuous; pedicels puberulous, 1 lin. long; bracts subulate to lanceolate, acuminate, subscarious, ciliate with long soft subplumose hairs, 2 1/2-3 lin. long; sepals like the narrower bracts, or linear, 2 1/2 lin. long; corolla broad-urceolate or ovoid, only slightly constricted at the throat, glabrous, rosy, 2 1/2 lin. long; segments erect, or perhaps spreading in the living state, ovate, rounded, about 1/4 the length of the tube; anthers included, cuneate-oblong, obtuse, smooth, somewhat under 1/2 lin. long, crested; pore 1/2-3/5 the length of the cell; crests lanceolate-acuminate, serrulate, equalling or longer than the cells; style included; stigma capitellate, small, or subsimple; ovary glabrous.