DIDYNAMIA— ANGIOSPERMIA. Lathrsea. 127 



cloven or entire ; lower smaller, spreading, obtuse. Nect, 

 a notched, depressed, fleshy gland, proceeding from the 

 receptacle^ at the lower side of the germen. Filam. awl- 

 shaped, shorter than the corolla, concealed by its upper 

 lip. Anth. converging, obtuse, their lobes pointed be- 

 neath. Germ, roundish, compressed. Style cylindrical, 

 scarcely the length of the corolla. Stigma abrupt, notched, 

 deflexed. Caps, roundish, obtuse, with a point, of one 

 cell and two membranous elastic valves, invested with 

 the enlarged inflated calyx. Seeds numerous, roundish, 

 rough, attached to a spongy, longitudinal, double recep- 

 tacle^ in the centre of each valve. 

 Perennial, succulent, parasitical, \)^\Y\({ herbs, partly subter- 

 raneous, growing either immersed in crumbling vegetable 

 mould, or among decayed leaves, at the roots of trees. 

 Leaves thick, loosely imbricated, whitish, entire. Fl. ax- 

 illary, either corymbose, or forming a leafy cluster, always 

 above ground, purplish, or white, erect or drooping. 



1. L. Scpiamaria. Greater Tooth-wort. 



Flowering branches erect, simple. Flowers axillary, uni- 

 lateral, pendulous ; lower lip in three lobes; upper cloven. 



L. Squamaria. Linn. Sp. PL 844. M'illd. v. 3. 201. FL Br. 654. 



EngL Dot. V. 1. t. oO. Dicks. H. Sice. fasc. 10. 13. Hook. Scot. 



187. FLDan.t.\36. 

 Squamaria. Riv. Monop. Trr. t. 89./. 2. 

 S. n.297. HalLIIist.v.lA'SO. 

 Anblatum. Cord. Hist. 89. 2. /. 



A. Cordi, sive Aphyllon. Raii Si/n. ^ 288. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 783./. 

 Dlmi taria. Mattli . Valgr. y . 2 . 3 1 3 . /. 

 D. major, Oimer. Epit. 705./ 



D. major Matthioli. Ger. Eni. 1585./ Blackstone 23. 

 Orobanche radice dentata major et minor. Rudb. Elys. r. 2. 230. 



/■7,S. 

 O. radice squammata, foliis rotundis, flore pendente et suaveru- 



bente Funboinsis. Ibid. 234. f. 17. 

 O. radice dentata, altius radicata, foliis et floribus albo-purpurois. 



Mentz. FugilL t.'S. Moris, v. 3.503. sect. 12. t. ]C). f.\\ ■ see 



alsof.W.' 



In dry shady places, mostly at the roots of hazels or elms. 



In several ])arls of Kent. Rai/, Dickson. In a shadv lane near 

 Harefield, Middlesex, j)lentifully. Uhickstonv. Westmoreland. 

 Huds. At Kxlon. near Stamford. Fjirl of (iainsboroiigh. In 

 Newburgh woods, Yorkshire. Rev. Arciidcacon Fcirson. Under 

 high rocks behind Saxton's bath house, Matlock. Rev. //'. /'. 

 Drake. In St. Catharine's wood, Dublin. JFttde PL Rar. Hib. 4S. 



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