146 DIDYNAMIA— ANGIOSPERMIA. Orobanche. 



L. n. 300. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 132. 



L. annua, flore albo monopetalo, &c. Lincl. Alsat. 266. 



Plantaginella. Rupp. Jen. ed. Hall. 23. t. 6./. 3. 



P. paliistvis. Rail Syn.27S. Moris, v. 3. 605. sect. \i3. t. 2. 



Spergula peipusilla, lanceatis foliis. Loes. Pruss. 261. t.8l. 



Alsine palustris vepens, foliis lanceolatis, floribus albis peiexiguis. 

 Pluk. Almag. 20. Plnjt. t. 74.f.4. 



A. palustris exigua^ foliis lanceolatis, &c. 3Ientz. Pugill. 2. t. 7. 



In muddy spots, where water has stagnated during winter, not 

 very uncommon. 



First noticed in Suffolk, on the Denes at Lowestoft, in 1808, by 

 Mr. R, Brown. 



Annual. July, August. 



Root fibrous, throwing out naked runners, which fix themselves 

 at the ends by fresh fibres, and form new plants. Herb dimi- 

 nutive, quite smooth. Leaves lanceolate, bluntish, erect or 

 spreading, an inchlongj on footstalks twice that length, sheath- 

 ing at the base. Fl. on shortish, crowded, axillary stalks, about 

 half an inch long, or more, recurved after the blossoms are past. 

 Cor. white or flesh-coloured. Caps, hardly bigger than mustard- 

 seed. 



315. OROBANCHE. Broom-rape. 



LiHM.Gen.321. Jmss. 101. FZ. Br. 668. Tourn.t.Sl. Lam.t. 551. 

 Nat. Ord. Personatce. Linn. 40. Pediculares. Juss. 35. Scro- 



pJmlarince. Br. Prodr. 433. Oi'obcmchecv of Richard. 



Hook. Scot. 222. 



Cal. of 2 lateral, opposite, acute, coloured, undivided or 

 cloven, permanent leaves. Cor. ringent, withei'lng; tube 

 ovate, curved, finall}' membranous ; upper lip concave, 

 notched, more or less dilated and spreading at the mar- 

 gin ; lower reflexed, in 3, somewhat unequal, wavy lobes. 

 Nect. a gland under the germen. Filam. from the base 

 of the corolla, almost as long as the tube, awl-shaped, 

 flattened and somewhat dilated downward, variously and 

 partially downy and glandular. Anth. incumbent, of 2 

 lobes, rounded at the top and pointed at the lower ends, 

 each opening by a longitudinal cleft in front. Germ. 

 ovate-oblong. Style terminal, cylindrical, incurved, as 

 long as the stamens. Stigma large, deflexed, of 2 or 3 

 distinct globular lobes. Caps, ovate, pointed, of 1 cell 

 and 2 valves, with 2 longitudinal receptacles proceeding 

 from the middle part of each valve. Seeds very nume- 

 rous, minute, wrinkled, covering the receptacles. 



Leafless scaly herbs, simple or branched, for the most part. 



