170 Dr. Smith'* Remarks onfome Foreign Species ofOrohanche, 



confounded with it by foreigners, that it is utterly impoflible to 

 allot to each its proper fynonyms, no botanifl having as yet pro- 

 perly defcribed the ftamina, in which the true character refides ; 

 much lefs do the figures of old authors lend any afliftance towards 

 this difcrimination. I here quote Cafpar Bauhin, merely on account 

 of his mentioning the clove-like fmell : in his fynonyms he appears 

 to confound thefe two, and poflibly feveral more fpecies. We have 

 no reafon to think that Linnseus intended the one more than the 

 other for his O. major, he having preferved no Swedifh fpecimen; 

 but I have retained that name for the Englifh plant, which is alfo 

 the more common of the two throughout Europe. When fome 

 Engliih writers tell us it has " a faint fmell of cloves," I believe that 

 remark has been made rather from regard to books than to nature ; 

 for the O. caryophyllacea has indeed not a faint ', but a very ftrong 

 and fragrant fmell of cloves when frefh, as I can witnefs : but I 

 never met with any body who could perceive the leaft degree of the 

 fame fmell in any Orobanche found in Britain. 



With refpect to more modern fynonyms of thefe two fpecies, 

 Villars in his Plantes de Dauphine, vol. ii. 407, evidently appears to 

 have known them both, but thought them one fpecies ; he having 

 only been anxious to diftinguifti from them the O. ccerulea, EngL 

 Bot. t. 423, about which indeed there can be no difpute. Pollich's 

 moft excellent description leaves no doubt of his O. major being my 

 caryophyllacea ; I have therefore quoted bun without any hefitation. 

 Haller under his No. 295 feems to have intended neither of thefe, 

 but rather the O. minor, Engl. Bot. t. 422, except that he mentions the 

 clove-Hke odour. He refers to Micheli, who publiihed a little 

 Italian work in octavo at Florence, in 1 723, upon this genus, chiefly 

 to indica e a method of extirpation. This book enumerates many 

 varieties, among which probably our new fpecies are all to be found. 



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