150 DIDYNAMIA— ANGIOSPERMIA. Orobanche. 



In the borders of fields in Hampshire. Goodyer. Near Northreps, 

 Norfolk. Mr. Scarles, 1779. At Sheringham,, Beeston and 

 Northreps. Rev. Dr. Sutton and Mr. W. Skrimshire. 



Perennial. July. 



Root fibrous, parasitical on those of various herbaceous plants 

 Stetn a foot high, more or less, unbranched, dark grey, minutely 

 downy like the rest of the plant, angular, scarcely swelling at 

 the base ; scales brown, all rather distantly scattered. There 

 are 2 smaller, interior, linear-lanceolate bracteas, besides the 

 usual solitary one, to each Jlower. Calyx-leaves combined, ra- 

 ther unequally cloven. Cor. funnel-shaped, angular, curved, 

 downy, of a greyish or blueish violet ; upper lip ascending, 

 cloven, with some intermediate notches ; lower in 3 equal, lan- 

 ceolate, entire lobes, with a white, elevated, divided palate. 

 Filam. quite smooth. Style minutely downy. 



The botanical history of this species is embroiled with that of the 

 Linnsean Orchis abortiva, Limodorum austriacum of Clusius, 

 whence the latter has wrongly been admitted into the list of 

 British plants. See Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. 4. 164. 



6. O. ramosa. Branched Broom-rape. 



Stem branched. Bracteas three. Upper lip of the corolla 

 deeply cloven; lower equally three-lobed ; segments all 

 rounded and entire. Style smoothish. 



O. ramosa. Linn. Sp. PI. 882. Willd.v.Z. 353. Fl. Br. 671. Engl. 

 Bot. V. 3. t. 184. Sutton Tr. of Lmn. Soc. v. 4. \85. Dill, in Raii 

 Stjn. *288. Ger. Em. 1312./. Bauh. Pin. 88. Bull. Fr. t.399. 



O. n. 296. Hall. Hist. u. 1 . 130. 



Orobanche. Camer. Epit. 311./. Lob. Ic. v. 2. 2/0./. 



In low moist rich fields, attached to the roots of Hemp. 



Near Beccles, Suffolk. J. Sherard. In hemp fields at Brome, 

 Norfolk, and Mettingham, Suflblk. Mr. Woodward. At Outwell, 

 Norfolk. Rev. Dr. Sutton. Near Wisbeach. Rev. Mr. Relhan. 



Annual. August, September. 



Root fibrous ; sometimes diseased and tumid, probably from the 

 attacks of an insect, as represented in Engl. Bot. Stem more 

 or less branched, rather wavy, a little downy ; the scales few 

 atid scattered. Fl. loosely spiked, light purple j the 5 segments 

 of the corolla nearly equal ; palate downy, yellowish. Bracteas 

 each accompanied by a pair of interior, very narrow ones. 

 Filam. shortish, somewhat fringed at^the base. Germ, roundish, 

 smooth. Style nearly or quite smooth. Stigma white. 



In the south of Europe i\\e flowers are more highly coloured than 

 with us, as well as larger. 



The withering, not deciduous, corolla in this genus and Lathrcea, 

 p, 126, seems scarcely sufficient, as a technical character, to esta- 

 blish a separate natural order, nor will analogy permit us to take 

 into account, for this purpose, their parasitical mode of growth. 



