166 AMONG THE WILD FLOWERS. 
also mentioned as being parasitic, but proof 
seems wanting. 
Orobanche gives name to the Nat. Ord. 
OROBANCHACE ; the genus has 8 or I0 species, 
MISTLETOE. 
of which the common ones are O. rapum, or 
mor, and O. minor, the Greater, and the 
Smaller Broom-rape, the name given on ac- 
count of the ravages which the plants commit 
upon the others on which they feed. 
