Erica subdivaricata P.J.Bergius

Erect, much-branched, 1-2 or even 3 ft. high; branches generally hirsute; leaves spreading or erect, linear, subobtuse, round-backed, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, about 2 lin. long; flowers 4-nate on short branches, becoming clustered; pedicels glabrous, about 1 lin. long; bracts remote, linear, ciliolate, small; sepals lanceolate, acute, foliaceous or subscarious on the margins, keeled, ciliate or naked, 1/2-7/8 lin. long; corolla campanulate-cyathiform or subturbinate, mouth widened, sometimes only slightly so, white, more rarely rosy, 1 1/4-2 lin. long; limb spreading or erect, about 2/3 as long as the tube, the interstices between the segments acute, closed; anthers included, longitudinally semiovate, cuneate or oblong-cuneate, smooth, glabrous, a little over 1/4 lin. long, aristate; pore about 2/3 the length of the cell; awns curved, slightly rough on the inner edge, mostly somewhat shorter than the cell; style exserted; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous or thinly puberulous.