Dr. Smith'* Remarks onfome Foreign Species of Orobanche. 169 



having often found it, in the month of May, in grafly places near 

 the fea — the very fituation in which it occurs in Norfolk. Gouan 

 very erroneoufly refers to this fynonym of Magnol as belonging to 

 Orobanche ramofa. The Botanicum Monfpclicnfe of Magnol being to 

 the Montpellier botanifts what Ray's Synopjis is to oui Englifh ones, 

 they are necefTarily fuppofed to know every plant it contains ; and 

 what they really do not underftanJ, they refer to fame other fpecies 

 as varieties, but too often on inefficient grounds. 



To contribute fomething more towards the hiftory of this con- 



fufed genus of Orobanche^ 1 {hall add the characters of two foreign 



fpecies not hitherto afcertained. The Britiih ones will foon be 



more fully elucidated than they have hitherto been, by the labours 



of the Rev. Mr. Sutton, a member of this Society. Our joint obfer- 



vations, particularly the characters we have difcovered for diicrimi- 



nating the fpecies, may perhaps be of ufe to botanifts of other 



countries, who may make null farther difcoveries than we have 



made: fo that in time a tolerably complete hiftory of the genus may 



be obtained, for which we have icarcely materials at prefent fuf- 



ficient. 



I. Orobanche caryophyllacea. 

 O. caule fimplici, corolla inflata nmbriato-crifpa ; labio inferiore 



laciniis obtufis acqualibus, ftaminibus intus bafi hirfutis. 

 O. major. Pollicb Palatin. v. ii. 200. 

 O. major, garyophyllum olens. Bauhin. Pin. 87. 



Gathered on firubby hills near Valcimara at the foot of the Apennines , in 

 April 1787. 'Tour on the Continent , vol. ii. 308. Linnaeus received the 

 fame from Siberia. 



This has very much the habit of the Orobanche major of Engl. Bot. 



U 421. and all other Britiih authors, and has been ib univerfally 



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