184 Rev. Mr. SuttonV Defer tption of 



Habitat inter gramina, in pafcuis, et ad margincs agrorum— 

 Sheringham juxta mare, Beefton, et Northrepps. 



We are entered now upon a divifion of the genus in which the 

 fpecies, befides having the upper lip of the corolla divided, differ in- 

 many refpefts from thofe in the laft : the fhape of the flower is no 

 longer cylindrical ; the ftamina are fliort and filiform, the ftigma 

 with no apparent tranfverfe fiffure, the calyx tubular, the bradae 

 ternate, and the plants altogether lefs fucculent and perhaps lefs 

 parafitic. The character therefore being in general fo different, 

 and more obvious marks of difcri mi nation prefenting themfelves in 

 this divifion, I prefume a fmall deviation from the form of the fpe- 

 cific definitions before laid down may be allowed. 



The ftem in this fpecies, though generally, is not always un- 

 branched; the Rev. R. B.Francis of Holt has remarked to me, 

 that, if mutilated, it will throw out lateral (hoots ; and I have ob- 

 ferved, that this is not the cafe with any of the three foregoing 

 fpecies ; for if the entire fpike of any of them is broken off, even at 

 an early period, the fiem decays; and if great part of it only is 

 broken off, the work of nature is carried on in perfecting the few 

 flowers that remain, on elongated footftalks. — From this citcum- 

 ftance, and from having alfo feen a perfect fpecimen that was 

 branched towards the bottom, I have been induced to define this 

 fpecies Cattle fubfimblicL 



The little that was known of it in England, till lately, was from 

 Mr. Pitch ford's fpecimen found in 1779, and Mr. Lightfoot's (fee 

 mth. Bot. Arr. p. 558, and Engl. Bot. p. 184.) Being mod allied to the 

 ramofa, it was taken at firft for a variety of it, and defcribed as fuch 

 in Withering, though with a very incorred reference to its habitat. 

 Jn 1796 Mr. Scrimpfliire found feveral at Sheringham, and I found 



a few 



