Dr. Smith' j Remarks onfome Foreign Species of Orobancbe. 165 



deed to the fpecific definition of lavis y caulc fimplicijjimo Xxv'i^Jlamini* 

 bus exfertis ; but there is no reafon to believe that definition was made 

 from the contemplation of this fpecimen, rather than from the 

 fynonyms and figures quoted in the Species Plantarum 1 and as Lin- 

 naeus never farther defcribed the fpecimen, nor referred to Gmelin, 

 neither did he ever mention Siberia as the native country of his 

 Orobancbe Icevis^ this can never be taken for fuch, even though there 

 fhould prove to be no other exifting, as we now hope to demonftrate; 

 more efpecially as this Siberian fpecimen proves a Lathraa, having a 

 monophyllous quadrifid calyx, and the true habit of that genus. 



In order clearly to underftand the hiftory of this miftaken f pedes, 

 the Orobancbe l<evis, it is neceffary to analize its fynonyms chronolo- 

 gically. We begin therefore with 



Orobanche magna purpurea monfpeffulana. Bauhiris Hijl. Ptant. 



vol. ii. p. 782. 



This plant is evidently taken up by John Bauhin from Lobel, 

 in whofe Icones, p. 269, we find two figures. The firft reprefents, 

 I think unqueftionably, though rudely, the Orchis abortiva of Lin- 

 naeus, and is marked Orobancbe major e Gramuntio luco Monjpcllienfium. 

 The fecond exhibits a true Orobanche, and is marked Orobanche. 

 quarta. Now it appears that the defcription of John Bauhin be- 

 longs to the firft of thefe plants, though he, or his editor, has by 

 miflake annexed to that defcription a copy of the fecond figure. 

 Whether the defcription be taken from any of Lobel's other publi- 

 cations, I have not been able to determine, nor is that point of any 

 confequence ; it is fufficient that it agrees altogether with the Orchis 

 above mentioned, and not with any Orobanche, the flowers being 

 defcribed " like thofe of an Orchis with fliort fpurs, and the root like 

 the upper part of that of an Orchis, but without any tejiiculi or bulbs." 



Bauhin 



