Erica tenuifolia L.

6-18 in. high, entirely glabrous; leaves opposite (occasionally some 3-nate on the same plant), erect or adpressed, imbricate, linear-trigonous, acute, keeled, sulcate, the younger with a reddish tinge in the upper part, 1-2 1/2 lin. long; flowers 3-nate, mostly crowded; pedicels 1-1 1/2 lin. long; bracts 2, remote, about 1 lin. long; sepals spreading, obovate, very concave, acute, apiculate, keeled, 1 1/2-2 lin. long, mostly reaching about 1/2 the length of corolla; corolla ovoid-urceolate or subconical, inflated at the base, contracted at the throat, 2 1/2-3 lin. long; segments ovate, subacute, nearly 1/2 the length of the tube; anthers oblong, obtuse, pallid, 2/5 lin. long, minutely toothed or crested; pore 1/2 the length of the cell; crests very variable in size, from 1/10-1/3 the length of the cell; stigma small, subsimple; ovary subtruncate, lobed.