Five Britijh Species ofOrobanche. 175 



grewe in a chappel there, in a certaine place called Bottell-bankes, 

 whereas the unlearned people dyd worfhyppe the image of St. 

 Marye, and reckoned that the herbe grewe in that place by the 

 vertue of that image. — Befides it that Diofcorides wryteth, I have 

 marked myfelfe that this herbe growethe muche aboute the rootes 

 of broome, y e whych it clafpeth aboute with certaine lyttel rootes 

 on everye fidelyke a dogge holdying a bone in his mouth: notwith- 

 standing I have not feen any broome choked with this herbe, 

 howebeit I have feen the herbe called three-leved graue or claver 

 utterly ftrangled, al the natural juice clene drawne oute by thys 

 herbe." 



It is not improbable that more than one fpecies is included in 

 this account, for which reafon I have given the extract, and that 

 the * Chokerweed " of the clover may be different from the 

 •'Choke-weed" of the broom, and that the " Newe Chappel 

 Flower" diftincl: from both, may be a fpecies not yet defined. Be 

 this fo or not, it will at leaft be worth while to make further re- 

 fearches, and investigate what may yet remain ; in particular to make 

 enquiry after that which Mr. Curtis fpeaks of, on the information 

 of Mr. Thomas White, as growing upon walls in Pembrokefhire 

 and the decayed floor of an old caflle; for none of thofe with which 

 we are at prefent acquainted are found in fuch fituations. 



* Corollis Quadrifidis. 



1. Orobanche major. 



Caule fimpliciflimo. Corollis quadrifidis, inflatis. Staminibus 

 inferne nudis. Stigmate bilobo, lobis diftantibus. Stylo 

 fuperne pubefcente. 



O. major, caule fimpliciflimo pubefcente, flaminibus fubexfertis. 



Curtis FL Lond.fafc. 4. tab. 44. 



O. major 3 



