190 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



generally exserted, glabrous ; stigma 2-lobed, purple. Capsule ovate, 

 acuminate, compressed. Plant brittle, fleshy, nearly glabrous. 



Toothicort. 



French, Clandestine J^ccdlleuse. German, Gemeine Schu2>penumrz. 



The common name of this i)lant was given to it from a supposed resemblance of 

 the scaly roots to a human tooth. 



GENUS II ~0 ROBANCHE. Linn. 



Calyx of 2 entire or cleft sepals more or less connected below, 

 or irreo"ularly 5-partite or toothed. Corolla irregular, marcescent, at 

 length splitting circumscissily and sub-deciduous ; tube cylindrical 

 or bellshaped, generally arched ; limb bilabiate and ringent; the 

 upper lip erect, 2-lobed or 2-cleft ; the lower one spreading, 3-cleft. 

 Stamens 4, didynamous, inserted in the tube of the corolla, included ; 

 filaments flattened at the base ; anthers 2-celled, the cells divari- 

 cate at the base, mucronate. Style simple, curved at the apex ; 

 stigma bi-globular, the lobes right and left. Capsule ovoid-conical, 

 1-celled, more or less distinctly 2-valved, with 4 narrow placentae 

 approximating in pairs on each valve. Seeds very numerous, minute, 

 with a spongy testa. 



Glandular-hairy fleshy herbs without green leaves, parasitical 

 on the roots of various dicotyledonous plants ; the base of the stem 

 (which is often swollen) directly attached to the roots of the plant 

 on which it is parasitic. 



The name of this genus of plants comes from opoftoc (orobos), pulse, and ayx^iy 

 {anchein), to strangle, owing to its supposed power of destroying the plant on which it 



Sub-Gentjs I.— PHELIPiEA. Tournef. C. A. Mey, 



Plowers each with 3 bracts, 1 beneath and 1 on each side. 

 Calyx of 4 lobes united at the base, or united except along the top, 

 rarely of 5 lobes. Stem slightly branched or simple. 



SPECIES L— OROBANCHE RAM OS A. Linn. 



Plate MVII. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCCLXXIII. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 60. 



Phelip^a ramosa, G. A. Mey. RevXer, in B. C. Prod. Vol. XL p. 8. Gr. & Godr. Fl. 

 de Fr. Vol. II. p. 627. Reich, fil 1. c. p. 88. 



