Erica humifusa Hibb. ex Salisb.

Erect or procumbent, 6-10 in. or more high, almost entirely glabrous; branches flexuous, subglabrous, with whitish sears of leaf-cushions; leaves 3-nate or opposite, erect, adpressed, somewhat imbricate or about as long as the internodes, not crowded, oblong or elliptic, obtuse, round-backed, thickish, sulcate, smooth, 3/4-1 lin. long; flowers subcorolline; pedicels slender, about 1 lin. long; bracts subapproximate, imbricating the sepals but shorter, ovate or lanceolate, keeled, scarious, whitish, 1/2-3/4 lin. long; sepals like the bracts, adpressed, very concave, 3/4 lin. long or a little more, not reaching to the top of the corolla-tube; corolla funnel-shaped, veined, red or rosy, 1 1/4-1 3/4 lin. long; tube narrow-obconic; segments more spreading, semiovate, very obtuse, from equal in length to the tube to twice as long; filaments slender, tapering to the apex; anthers included, manifest, 2/5-1/2 lin. long or more, the shorter subovate, acute, the longer lanceolate or semilanceolate, acuminate; cell produced beyond the pore for from 3/4-1 of the length of the latter, muticous; pore about 1/2 the length of the cell, scabrid, foxy-brown; style exserted; stigma capitellate; ovary glabrous.