250 DECANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Andromeda. 



Hypopitys n. 1002. Hall. Hist. v. 1.427. 



H. lutea. Rail Syn/6\7 . 



Orobanche quae Hypopitys dici potest. Baiih. Fin. 88. Prodr. 31. 



O. Hypopitys lutea. Mentz. Pugill. t.3. Moris, v. 3. 503. sect. 12. 

 ^.16./. 13. 



O. flore breviore duplici, Verbasculi odore. Moris, v. 3. 504. n. 20. 



O. Verbasculi odore. " Plot Oxf. 146. t. 9./. 6." Pluk. Almag. 273. 

 Phyt. t.209.f.5. 



About the roots of beeches and firs, in woods, but not common. 



Frequent in the counties of Oxford, Bedford, Buckingham and 

 Berks. Huds. In Stoken-church woods. Rmj. In Sussex. Mr. 

 Manningham. Near Tring, Hertfordshire. Mr. Doody. Near 

 Uley, Gloucestershire. Pev. Mr. Baker. In a fir wood at Shot- 

 tisham, near Stoke, Norfolk. Mr. Crowe. In Madingley planta- 

 tions, Cambridgeshire. Relhan. About Box hill, Surrey. Mr. 

 Graves. In some dry beech and fir woods in Scotland. Light- 

 foot. 



Perennial. June. 



Root fibrous, much branched, and somewhat creeping, growing 

 among dead leaves, or in half-decayed vegetable mould ; but I 

 could never find it truly parasitical, any more than Mr. Graves ; 

 though the uniform pallid hue of the plant indicates it to be so. 

 Herb succulent, smooth, straw-coloured, turning quite black 

 when dry, and exhaling, during that process, a very sweet and 

 peculiar scent, approaching that of Vanilla, the flowers of Or- 

 chis nigra (Safyrium nigrum Linn.), the roots of Corallorrhiza, 

 or other fragrant Orchidecc. Stem mostly solitary, simple, 5 or 

 6 inches high, round, beset with scattered ovate scales rather than 

 leaves. Cluster terminal, bent downwards while young, at length 

 erect, of several^0M;er5, accompanied by bracteas like the scales 

 of tlie stem. Petals closed, a little spreading at the tips, 8 only 

 in each flower, except the terminal one, which has 1 0. Stamens 

 as many as the petals, and more lasting, often hairy. The 

 smaller petals, which exist likewise in the American M. lanugi- 

 nosa, having perhaps fallen from Professor Hooker's specimen, 

 may account for his figure and description not agreeing with 

 what I have seen, and what Linnseus and Dillenius accurately 

 describe. The anthers in our plant have, as Dr. Hooker says, 

 but 1 cell J those of the single-flowered species seem differently 

 constructed. 

 Haller refers to Rivinus, Tetrap. Irr., for his Hypopitys ,• but I find 

 no traces of it. Willdenow merely copies him, or rather perhaps 

 Reichard. 



226. ANDROMEDA. Andromeda. 



Linn. Gen. 219. Juss. 160. Fl. Br. 441. Lam. t. 365. Gartn. t. 63 



«wrfl78. 

 Nat. Ord. Bicornes, Linn. 18. Ericce, Juss. 51. 



