CLASS XIV. ORDER II.] OROBANCHE. 837 



margin downy. Capsule ovate, crowned by llie persistent style. 

 Seeds very numerous, small, palish brown, attached to the lateral 

 placentas. 



Habitat. — On the roots of Galium MoUugo, Rubus fruticosus, &c., 

 in South Kent.—Bev. G. E. Smith. 



Perennial; flowering in July. 



This species, it is probable, has been confounded with O. major^ 

 from which, however, it is readily distinguished by the bell-shaped 

 corolla, the more spreading crisped limb, and different colour. The 

 stamens are inserted higher in the lube, and are hairy at the base. 

 The whole plant is of a more purple somewhat glossy colour, and not 

 a dull tingy brown, and the purple hairy margined stigmas sufficiently 

 distinguish it from both the preceding and following species. 



3. O. elaHior, Sutton. (Fig. 968.) Tall Broom-rape. Stem simple, 

 angular; sepals many ribbed, deeply divided, neaily as long as the 

 corolla; tube of the corolla cylindrical, dilated above, the limb some- 

 what spreading, the upper lip with the margin recurved, two lobed 

 and crenated, the lower of three nearly equal ovate acute crenated 

 lobes, spreading ; siarnens inserted above the base of the corolla; the 

 filaments slightly hairy at the base; style smooth ; stigma two lobed, 

 pale purple. 



English Botany, t. 568. — English Flora, vol. i. p. 148. — Hooker, 

 British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i, p. 241. — Lindley, Synopsis, p. 194. 



Root fibrous, Stein erect, simple, from one to two feet high or 

 more, somewhat angularly striated, of a pale dirty yellow, tinged with 

 purple, becoming of a. purplish brown, swollen into a fleshy tuberous 

 base, and more or less clothed vAith short glandular pubescence, and 

 bearing a few lanceolate taper pointed scales upon the stem above, 

 more numerous and ovate acute below, soon becoming withered, and 

 of a dark brown colour. Inflorescence a long terminal spike of very 

 numerous flowers, scattered below, crowded above. jSrac^ea* lanceo- 

 late, taper pointed, hairy externally. Calyx sepals often united in 

 front, cleft into two awl shaped segments, about as long as the tube of 

 the corolla, paler than the bractea, from three to five ribbed, slightly 

 downy. Corolla with a cylindrical tube, somewhat inflated above, and 

 curved downwards, smooth, or slightly downy, striated with dark veins, 

 the limb somewhat spreading, the upper lip somewhat concave, the 

 margin two lobed, crenated, and slightly recurved, the lower lip of 

 three spreading nearly equal ovate acute lobes, crenated on the margin, 

 and crisped, all marked with dark veins. Stamens inserted above the 

 base of the tube, the filaments awl-shaped, smooth above, slightly 

 downy at the base on the inner side. Anthers smooth, of two ovate 

 pointed cells, yellow. Stijle qtiite smooth. Stigma of two globose 

 lobes, quite smooth, pale purple. Capsule ovate, crowned with the 

 persistent style. Seeds very numerous, small, dark brown. 



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