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1. A cadaverous, or pale rose-coloured and succulent plant, three\ 



to six inches high, with a crowded spite of flesh-coloured or I 



slightly blueish flowers, streaked with purple, somewhat droop- 1 



ing, and all turned one way. Underground part of the stem VToothwort. 



branched, and clothed with short, thick, fleshy, white scales, 



resembling the fi'ont teeth. Calyx tubular and inflated, the | 



lobes broad and short. (Fig. 135) 



2. A dusky, club-like plant, with a purplish -brown and viscid stem,\ 



twelve or eighteen inches high, very much swollen at the I ^ 

 base, and clothed with tapering scales. Flowers pinl^ish- Vg„ 

 brown, crowded into a long dense spike. Calyx divided to 1 

 the base into two or four long and pointed lobes ' 



HABITATS AND LOCALITIES. 



1. TooTHWOET — (^Lathrcea squamdria.) 



Woods and shady places, living recluse from public view, and seated 



usually on the roots of hazles and black poplars, preferring such as 



are not far from streams of water. By the Mersey, opposite Northen 



Boat-house ; plentiful at Red-brows, a mile further down the river ; 



again opposite Trafford Hall ; and at Barton, in Foxhill meadows. 



(J. S.) Found also at the north side of Windybottom Bridge, near 



Mellor, Derbyshire (Mr. Isaac Williamson) ; in Cotterill Clough ; at 



Marple ; and in Gatley Carrs. (Mr. Edward Stone.) Fl. April, May. 



E. B. i. 50 ; Baxter, v. 365. 



2. Great Broom-rape — {Or ohdnche major.) 

 Several localities are mentioned in Buxton's Guide, but they appear 

 to be obsolete. Near Congleton it grows abundantly on the roots of 

 broom ; and as the shrub in question flourishes thereabouts in great 

 plenty, the parasite is likely to hold its station permanently. It 

 should be sought both upon broom and on the roots of furze, having 

 a great love for the shrubby Leguminosae. Fl. June, July. 

 Curtis, ii. 264 ; E. B. vi. 421. 



LXL— THE GENTIAN FAMILY. Gentiandcew. 

 A rather extensive, very well marked, and elegant family, consisting 

 almost entirely of herbaceous plants, which, with the exception of a 

 few exotic species, are perfectly glabrous, with entire, usuaUy opposite 

 and undivided leaves, destitute of stipules, and generally sessile ; the 

 flowers usually in terminal and dichotomous cymes or panicles, with a 

 solitary blossom in every fork. Calyx and corolla regular, usually pen- 

 tamerous, but in a few cases with the parts in fours ; the stamens 

 corresponding, alternate with the divisions of the corolla, and all in 



