Erica pilulifera L.

Erect, virgate, 1-1 1/2 ft. high, simple and naked below, branched and leafy above, surmounted by umbels of red flowers; branches slender, channelled, glabrous; leaves 4-nate (or sometimes 3-nate ?) or scattered, crowded, suberect, linear, subacute, sulcate, pubescent, glabrescent, ciliate on the edge and on the folds at the meeting of the margins, 2 1/2-4 lin. long; flowers 4-nate or more commonly umbellate with a few axillary immediately below the umbel; pedicels glabrous, 3-3 1/2 lin. long; bracts 2, remote, linear, scarious, over 1 lin. long (the third appears to be wanting); sepals lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, keeled, scarious, glabrous, red, 1 1/4-1 3/4 lin. long; corolla suburceolate-cyathiform, very little constricted at the throat or widened at the mouth, about 2 1/2 lin. long; segments erect or subspreading, 1/4-1/3 the length of the tube; anthers included, oblong-cuneate, smooth, glabrous, less than 1/2 lin. long, aristate; pore about 1/2 the length of the cell; awns minutely ciliolate, about equal to the cell; style included; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous.