4r>; 



Ordo CLIY. OROBANCHEAE L. C. Rich. 



[L. C. Rich. In Pers. Enchirid. II. 180. — Endlich. Gener. plantar. p. 725. — 



Meisn. Gener. plantar. vascular. I. 314. II. 224. — OROBANCHES generis 



AIA2KEYH auctore Fr. Gu. Wallroth. (Francof. ad Moen. 1825. 8vo.) — 



G. Don, General syst. of gard. and bot. IV. 627. (ex parte.)] 



4182. EPIPHEJIJS Niitt. 



(Nult. Gener. plant. Americ. II. 60. — Meisn. Gener. plant. vascul. I. 314. II. 225. — 

 Hook. Flor. Bor. Americ. II. 93.) 



1. E. AMERICANA Nutt. 1. c. — Hook. I. c. — Endlich. Iconograph. gener. t. 80. — 

 Radix carnosa Juglandis magniludine, undique fibrillosa, perennis. Scapus ex 

 ipsa radice ramosissimus lorluosus nodosus angulosus aphyllus, demum lignes- 

 cens, rami simplices v. divisi e squama ovato-oblonga prodeuntes angulosi gla- 

 bri, superne pedicellique pube tenuissima adspersi , floriferi digitales, frucliferi 



. elongati sesquipedales, inflorescenliam ramoso-virgatam constiluenles. Bracleae 

 solilariae squamis conformes, sensim minores brevissimae oblusiusculae enerves 

 fuscescenles glabrae, raargine parce hirtello. Calyx monophylius urceolatus bre- 

 vissime 5-denlalus. Flores polygami brevissime pedicellali alterni solilarii flavi, 

 superiores masculi ringentes quadrifidi in labium inferius planum divisi, inCerio- 

 res foeminei omnes fertiles obsolele 4-fidos mentienles, apice cilo arcle conni- 

 ventes fere conferruminali etcapsulae, donec hae dehiscant, calyplrae mamillalae, 

 apice clausae instar insidentes eoque stigma concipientes. Capsula obovata, basi 

 a calyce cincta 1-Iocularis polysperma. — Orobanche caule ramoso , floribus di— 

 stantibus Clayt. in Gronov. Virgin. 168. — Orobanche minor Virginiana lignosior 

 per totum caulem floribus minutis onusta Moris. Oxon. Hislor, Sect. 12. t. 16. fig. 

 9. — Orobanche [Mijlanche Wallrlh. Gener. Orob. dtaaxeurj 76.) Virginiana Linn. 

 Spec, plantar. 882. — Leptamnium Raf. Americ. monthl. journ. 1818, — Crescit 

 parasitica in Fagorum radicibus in Virginia. 



4183. PHELIPAEA Dsfont.*) 

 (Dsfont. Flor. Allant. II. 60. — Meisn, Gener, plant, vascul, 1,314.11.225. - G. Don, 



General syst. of gard, and bot. IV, 631,) 



Sectio I. TRIONYCHION Wallroth, Gener. Orob. diaaxsu-fi pag, 58. — C. A. Mey. mss. 



in Ledeb. Flor. Altaic. II. 460. 



Calyx 4-5-fidus, lobis elongalis inaequalibus acuminalis. Anlherae superficie 



glabrae, loculis villoso-dehiscenlibus, Capsula slyli decidui basi ooronala. 



1, PH, LANUGINOSA C. A, Mey. mss, in Ldb, Icon. flor, Ross, Allaic, illuslr. t. 377. 



et Flor. Aliaic. II, 460. f — C. A, Meyer, Vrzchns, der Pflnzn, am Caucas, 104, — 



Albo-Ianala: squamis floralib, ovalo-lanceolalis calycem excedenlib,; calycis lo- 



bis lanceolatis subaequalib,; corollae fauce subinflata, labio superiore paullo lon- 



giore, lobis labii inferioris subaequalib, ellipticis obtusis subdenlicuialis; fila- 



menlis anlherisq, glabris; stylo glanduloso, sligmate bilobo, 1|. — Scapus sim- 



plicissimus 4-10-poIlicaris, — Species intermedia quasi inter Ph. coeruleam et 



carnosam, ab illa differt lanugine alba, squamis floralibus calyce longioribus in 



apice scapi subcomosis, labio corollae superiore paullo breviore, lobis obsoletius 



denticulatis, ab hac dignoscitur coroUa in fauce multo minus ampliata, intus 



*) Bracteae ternae nec binae ut ait St. Endlicher et cum eo Meisner, 

 si forte excipies species nonnullas minus notas. 



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