Erica cyathiformis Salisb.

Erect, much branched, 1-1 1/2 ft. high; branches puberulous, the ultimate very slender; leaves erect or spreading, linear, obtuse, glabrous, slender, often curved, 1/2-1 lin. long; flowers 4-nate, sometimes by abortion of branchlets pseudo-axillary; pedicels slender, 3/4-1 lin. long; bracts remote, very small; sepals ovate, obtuse, ciliate, shining, less than 1/2 lin. long; corolla subglobose-campanulate or broad-urceolate-campanulate, not (or hardly) constricted at the throat, somewhat, widened at the mouth, 3/4-1 1/8 lin. long; segments about 2/3 as long as the tube; anthers included, subtriangular, with broadly rounded angles, subscabrid, ciliate at the base, 1/5 lin. long, aristate; pore about 2/3 the length of the cell; awns spreading, distant, naked on the margins, shorter than the cell; style included, short; stigma subpeltate-capitate; ovary glabrous or puberulous.