Erica paniculata L.

Erect, 1-1 1/2 ft. high; branches numerous, virgate or fastigiate-paniculate, densely long-pilose or shortly floccose, covered with abundant corolline or subcorolline flowers, in close subcylindrical panicles; leaves 3-nate, erect, imbricate or at least close-set, linear or subulate, sulcate, glabrous, 1-2 lin. long; flowers sub-3-nate on short branchlets; pedicels about 1 lin. long; bracts approximate or subremote, small; sepals lanceolate, keeled, sub-scarious, glabrous or puberulous, about 2/3 lin. long; corolla cyathiform or obconic-cyathiform, mouth more or less widened, straight, not curved upwards from the base, about 1 1/4 lin. long; segments generally continuous, about 1/2 the length of the tube or more, usually red, more rarely pallid or white; anthers subexserted or rarely exserted, lateral, obliquely oblong or subcuneate, or semiovate, about 1/3 lin. long, aristate; pore about 1/2 the length of the cell; awns variable, sometimes very minute or even wanting, sometimes nearly 2/3 the length of the cell; style exserted; stigma broad-capitate, truncate and often lobed above; ovary mostly glabrous, very rarely (in only one specimen of many examined), slightly puberulous.