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their scent powerful, resembling a honey-suckle, or pink. CaL 

 of 2 narrow, lanceolate, undivided leaves. Cor. but little in- 

 flated ; upper lip cloven, lower in 3 rounded segments, all the 

 margins crenate, and fringed with short glandular hairs. Filam. 

 fringed and glandular at the base ; Dr. Hooker says at the 

 summit also. Anth. and stigma red ; the latter sometimes with 

 3 lobes. Style partially glandular and hairy. Germed smooth. 



** Bracteas three to each flower, 



5. O. ccrrulea. Purple Broom-rape. 



Stem simple. Bracteas three. Upper lip of the corolla 

 cloven and notched ; lower in three equal entire seg- 

 ments. Style downy. 



O. C8erulea. Villars Dauph. v.2. 406. Fl.Br.67\. Engl. Bot.v.6. 

 t. 423. Sutton Tr. of Linn. Soc, v. 4. 182. mild. v. 3. 352. 



(). purpurea. Jacq. Austr. t. 27<). 



O. ramosa /3. With.bbS. 



O. n.294. Hall. Hist. V A. \29, 



O. n.28, var. 1. Gmel. Sib.v.3.2\D.t.46.f. 1. 



O. quarta. Lob. Ic. v. 2. 269./. 



O. flore obsoleto majore. Moris, sect. 12. t. 16./. 2 ; the figure at 

 least. 



O- flore majore. Ger. Em. 1312./ 



Nidus avis flore et caule violaceo-purpureo colore. Goodyer in 

 Ger. Em. 22%, nof. 



In grassy pastures near the sea. 



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

 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. 

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

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

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

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

 usual solitary one, to tixuhjlowcr. 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. 

 Fdam. quite smooth. Sfylr minutely downy. 



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

 Linniuan Orchis abortiva, Limodornm austriavum of dusius, 

 whence the latter hits wrongly been admitted into the list ot 

 British plants. See Tr. of Linn. Sue. v.4.\ 61. 



