286 OROBANCHACEJE. (BROOM-RAPE FAMILY.) 
branching annuals. Leaves petioled, entire, roundish, the upper ones alternate. 
Flowers racemed. 
1. M. proboscidea, Glox. — Stems thick, at length prostrate; leaves n^ 
round-cordate ; corolla (13' long) whitish, spotted with yellow and purple; cap- 
sule crested on one side, shorter than the beaks.— Waste places. Introduced. 
July and Aug. 
ORDER 90. OROBANCHACEZ. (Broom-rare FAMILY.) 
Low, leafless, scaly herbs, parasitic on roots, with bilabiate didynamous 
flowers. — Calyx 4 -5-toothed or parted. _ Corolla withering- -persistent, 
tubular, the upper lip 2-cleft or entire,the lower 3-lobed. Stamens in- ; 
serted on the tube of the corolla: anthers persistent. Ovary free, 1-celled, 
with 2—4 parietal placenta. Style simple, curved at the apex: stigma 
thick, 2-lobed. Capsule 2-valved, many-seeded. Seeds very small, ana- 
tropous, with the minute embryo at the base of transparent albumen." 
Flowers perfect or polygamous, solitary or spiked. 
Synopsis. 
1. EPIPHEGUS. Flowers polygamous, spiked ; the lower ones fertile, the upper sterile. Oe 
lyx 2-bracted, 5-toothed. Stem branching. 
2. CONOPHOLIS. Flowers perfect, spiked. Calyx 2-bracted, cleft on the lower side, Stem. 
simple, thick and fleshy. 
3. APHYLLON. Flowers solitary, perfect. Calyx bractless, 5-cleft. Corolla nearly equally 
5-lobed. 
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L ERPIPHEBGUA Nut. BrronDrors 
Piven polygamous; the upper ones slender and sterile, the lower abbreviated 
and fertile. Calyx 5-toothed. Capsule 2-valved at the apex, with 2 placent® 
on each valve. — Stem smooth, slender, much branched, purplish. Flowers 
small, in loose slender spikes. Corolla purplish. 
1. E. Virginiana, Bart.— Under Beech-trees, in deep shades, Florida to 
Mississippi, and northward. Aug.— Stems 6/—12' high. Flowers scattered: 
Corolla of the sterile flowers 4" — 6" long, 4-toothed, curved. 
2. CONOPHOLIS, Wallr. AR ROO 
- Flowers perfect, densely spiked. Calyx 2-bracted, tubular, 4-toothed, deo 
the lower side. Upper lip of the corolla arching, notched ; the lower 
_ toothed. Stamens exserted. Capsule 2-valved, with 2 placente on each 
—A thick and fleshy whitish simple herb, covered with imbricated scales. + 
ers — spreading. 
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short, % 
, Wallr. (Orobanche, Z.) — Shady woods, Flori à 
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