196 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Caesar's Camp Hill, East Wear Bay, and Lyddon Spout ; on the 

 undercliff between St. Margaret's Bay and Kingsdown, and on 

 Deal sand-hills. 



England. Perennial. Early Summer. 



Stem very stout, brittle, enlarged at the base, 6 to 20 inches 

 high, with numerous scales, yellowish or tinged with pale brownish- 

 red. Corolla 1 to 1| inch long, yellowish or tinged with brownish- 

 purple or brownish-red. The flowers are said to have the scent of 

 cloves (but this 1 have never been able to perceive) ; they are less 

 erect, more spreading and narrower in proportion, and less enlarged 

 towards the tube than in 0. llapum, with which it agrees in stature ; 

 the bracts are also shorter, very rarely exceeding the flowers. 



Clove-scented Broom-rape. 

 German, Nelkendnflende Sommerwii/rz. 

 This species occurs on the roots of the bramble. 



SPECIES VII— OROBANCHE ELATIOR. Sutton. 



Plate MXIII. 



Eeich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCCXCIV. 



O. major, "Linn." Fries, Sum. Veg. Scand. p. 19 ; Mant. Ill, p. 57. Gr. & Godr. 

 Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 636. 



Elowers ascending-spreading. Bracts shorter than the flowers. 

 Sepals 2-cleft, about as long as the tube of the corolla ; upper 

 segment with 3 conspicuous veins. Corolla sparingly pubescent 

 with gland-tipped hairs ; tube rather widely cylindrical curved, 

 with the curvature greatest about the middle ; upper lip deeply 

 notched, with the margins inflexed-erect ; lower lip 3-lobed, with 

 the lobes nearly equal, all crimped and sharply denticulate. 

 Stamens inserted a little above the base of the corolla ; filaments 

 hairy on the inner side towards the base, their upper part and the 

 whole of the style sub-glabrous. Stigma of 2 contiguous lobes, 

 yellow. 



Parasitical on the roots of Centaurea scabiosa, Scabiosa arvensis, 

 and Carduus lanceolatus ? Bare, but widely distributed over 

 England as far North as Yorkshire and Durham, but apparently 

 partial to the East side of the island. 



England, Ireland. Perennial. Summer. 



Stems 6 to 20 inclies high, stout, enlarged at the base, with 

 numerous bracts, yellowish. Elowers J to 1 inch long, pale-yellow, 



