Five Britijh Species of Orobanche. 1 85 



a few at the adjoining parifh of Beefton, one of which I prefented 

 to the Society in February laft. It feems to have been more gene- 

 rally found abroad, where it has ufually parted for that unknown 

 fpecies of Linnaeus, the O. /avis; a miftake arifing, as I have been 

 convinced by the Prefident, from a wrong application of fynonyms 

 in the Species Plantarunu — See the preceding paper. 



5. Orobanche ramofa. 



Caule ramofo. Gorollis quinquefidis. Bra&eis ternis. Calycibus 

 brevibus, profunde quadrifidis. 



O. ramofa, caule ramofo, corollis quinquefidis. — Syjl. Plant, ed. 



Reichard, p. 184. — Follich F/o. Pal, n. 601. 

 O. caule ramofo, flore quinquepartito. — Halter, 2 edit. n. 296. 

 O. ramofa, caule fubramofo, corollis quinquefidis.— Hudfon Flo. 



Ang. 2 edit, p. 266. 

 O. ramofa. — Rati Syn. 3 edit. p. 288.* — With. Bot. Arr. 3 edit. 



O. ramofa, ftem generally branched, corolla with five fegments, 

 — Smith in Engl. Bot. tab. 1 84. 



Radix congenerum, annua, vix fquamofa, Cannabis fativcc radicibus 

 cauleque imprimis implicita. Caulis 6 — 10 pollicaris, ereclus, 

 fubflexuofus, teres, pilofus, fublignofus, luteo-purpurafcens, craf- 

 fitie fere penna* anlerinx, bafi ramofus, ramis caule brevioribus, 

 fquamofus, fquamis raris ovato-lanceolatis, cito fufceicentibus ; 

 interdum fimplex. Flores fpicati (ipica acuta) ex albido ccerulei, 

 venis cceruleis notati, pilofi ; perfiftentes declinati, tubo fuperne 

 comprefTo, inferne ventricofiore, fufci — flos inferior faepe pedun- 

 culatus. Braclea ternx breves, calyci vix aequales, membra- 

 naceae, cito fufcefcentes, dux laterales interiores, lanceolate acu- 

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