Erica pellucida Salisb.

Erect, with numerous, spreading branches, 6-12 in. high; leaves close-set, spreading to squarrose and most usually incurved, linear, subacute, 2-3 l in. long; flowers 4-nate, often in dense masses at the ends of short branchlets; bracts approximate, linear-lanceolate, keel-tipped, lacerate, somewhat shorter than the sepals; sepals obovate or obovate-cuneate, with a long sublincar foliaceous cusp, scarious, lacerate or fimbriate-lacerate, about 3 lin. long; corolla-tube subinflated, bright rose, 5-6 lin. long; segments ovate, subobtuse, about 2 lin. long; anthers nearly square, a little over 1/2 lin. long; pore 1/3 the length of the cell; style at length exserted.