290 OROBANCHACE2E. (BROOM-RAPE FAMILY.) 
notched at the apex, arched, not longer than the others. Seeds very 
numerous, straw-color, shining. Aug. - Oct. 
2. CONOPHOLIS, Wallr. Squaw-root. Cancer-root. 
Flowers in a thick scaly spike, perfect, with 2 bractlets at the 
base of the irregular calyx. Corolla tubular, swollen at the base, 
obviously 2-lipped ; the upper lip arched, notched at the summit; 
the lower shorter, 3-parted, spreading. Stamens protruded. Stig¬ 
ma depressed. Pod with 4 placentae, approximate in pairs on the 
middle of each valve. — Upper scales forming bracts to the flow¬ 
ers ; the lower covering each other in regular order, not unlike 
those of a fir-cone ; whence the name, from kcovos , a fir-cone , and 
(f)o Xtff, a scale. 
1. C. Americana, Wallroth. (Orob&nche Americana, L.) 
— Oak woods, not rare, growing in clusters among fallen leaves. 
May, June.—A singular plant, chestnut-colored or yellowish through¬ 
out, as thick as a man’s thumb, 3 ; -6' long, covered with scales, which 
are at first fleshy, then dry and hard. 
3. APHYLLON, Mitchell. Naked Broom-rape. 
Flowers perfect, solitary on long naked scapes, without bract- 
lets. Calyx 5-cleft, regular. Corolla with a long curved tube 
and a spreading border, somewhat 2-lipped ; the upper lip deeply 
2-cleft, the lobes similar to the 3 of the lower lip. Stamens in¬ 
cluded. Stigma broadly 2-lipped. Capsule with 4 equidistant 
placentae, 2 borne on each valve half-way between the midrib and 
the margin. (Name from a privative and <j)vWov, foliage , allud¬ 
ing to the naked stalks.) 
1- A. uni tlm’Uin, Torr. & Gr. (One-flowered Cancer- 
root.) Stem subterranean or nearly so, very short, scaly? 0 en 
branched, each branch sending up 1 - 3 slender one-flowered scapes 
high) j divisions of the calyx lance-awl-shaped ; lobes of the 
corolla obovate. (Orobanche uniflora, L.) — Woods, common. April, 
May. — Hairy, brownish-yellow. Corolla V long, tinged and edge 
with purple, with 2 yellow bearded folds in the throat. 
Order 67. BIGNONIACE^E. (Bignonia Family.) 
Woody or sometimes herbaceous plants , monopetalous , di 
dynamous , with the ovary commonly 2-celled by the meeting 
of the placentae or of a projection from them , many-seeded • 
