218 TYPES OF BRITISH PLANTS 
spike of flowers which the underground plant throws up. 
Beneath, its thick fleshy root, or stem, is plundering the 
hazel, while, as we said in the last chapter, it obtains 
its delicacies from the microscopic creatures that wander 
into the mazes of its closely-folded leaves. The Broom- 
rapes are of similar general appearance, 
TOOTHWORT, 
