Erica parviflora L.

Erect, 1-3 ft. high; branches ascending or slender and diffuse, usually with long and short hairs intermixed; leaves 4-nate, spreading to squarrose, linear, sulcate, closely or sparsely hairy, 1-2 1/2 lin. long; flowers 3-nate; pedicels 1/2-1 1/2 lin. long; bracts remote and small; sepals linear, or linear-lanceolate, rarely ovate-lanceolate, subfoliaceous, coloured, 1/2-1 lin. long; corolla urceolate, mouth slightly contracted, finely puberulous to coarsely hirsute, red or pink, 1-2 lin. long; segments rounded, generally spreading, about 1/4 the length of the tube; filaments slender; anthers included, dorsifixed at or near the base, oblong, obtuse, aristate, rarely muticous; pore about 1/2 the length of the cell; cell from 1/5 to over 1/4 lin. long; awns linear, rough-edged, from 2/3 the length of the cell to about as long as it, style included to subexserted; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous.