Five Brit ijh Species of Orobanchc. 177 



hzerentes, — defloratae una cum ftylo exfertae. Pipllum, germen 

 oblongum, nitidum,pilofiufculum; ftylus filiformis, pilofiufculus, 

 apice pubefcens, purpurafcens ; ftigma bilobum, lobis globofis, 

 fiavis, diftanribus, medio tranfverse rimofum. Pericarpium, cap- 

 fula ovato-oblonga, longitudinaliter dehifcens, unilocularis bi- 

 valvis; Semina minuta, numerofa, fubturbinata, reticulato-cellu- 

 lofa. Receptacula, quatuor linearia lateralia, adnata. 

 Floret Junio. U 



Habitat in dumetis fterilioribus, et in locis incultis — Thorp, Brook, 

 Baconfthorp. 



As this fpecies has generally patted for O. major, and has been 

 figured and defcribed as fuch by the authors of the Flora Lo?idinenfis 

 and Englijh Botany, I have retained that trivial name, though it is 

 now fufpecled not to be that of Linnxus, nor the O. major Garjo- 

 phyllum olens, fo often mentioned, of C. Bauhin. Of the many 

 fynonyms to O. major, quoted by Reichard in his edition of the 

 Syjlema Plantar urn o£ 1780, vol.3, p. 183, it is extremely difficult 

 which to refer to our plant : we may fafely however exclude thofc 

 from Bauhin Phu 87. — Loefhng,p. 151, original edition, — and Pol- 

 lich, No. 600. Dr. Withering, in his 3d edition of the Bot. Arrange- 

 ment, has judicioufly excluded the long defcription of Loefiing. I 

 dare not quote any of his fynonyms, for want of fufficient marks of 

 difcrimination: the figures he refers to in Morrifon xii. 16. 1. Ge- 

 rard em, p. 1311, Clufius i. p. 270, Dodonseus p. 552, and Lobel 

 Ic. ii. 89, are copies of each other, and, if meant for our plant, are 

 very bad reprefentations of it. J. Bauhin's ii. p. 780, is equally un- 

 certain; that of Matthiolus p. 536, copied m Gerard's Herbal, 1 ft 

 edition, p. 1130, and that of Tabernamantanus, p. 684, though not 

 fatisfaclory, are a great deal better. 



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