170 Dr. Smitu’s Remarksonfome Foreign Species of Orobanche: 
confounded with it by foreigners, that it is utterly impoffible to’ 
allot to each its proper fynonyms, no botanift having as yet pro- 
perly defcribed the ftamina; in which the’ true charaéter refides ¥ 
much lefs do the figures of old‘authors lend:any affiftance towards, 
this difcrimination. I here quote’Cafpar Bauhin, merely on account 
of his mentioning the clove-like fmell: in his fynonyms he appears: 
to confound thefe two, and poffibly feveral more fpecies. We have 
no reafon to think that Linnéus intended the one more than the 
other for his’O. major, he having’ preferved no Swedith ‘fpecimen ; 
but I have'retained that name for the Englith plant, which is alfo 
the more common of the two throughout Europe. When fome 
Englith writers tell us it has ‘ a faint {mell of cloves,” I believe that 
remark has been made rather from regard to books than to nature 5 
for the'O. caryophyllacea has indeed not a fait, but avery ftrong 
and fragrant fmell of! cloves when frefh, as I can witnefs: but I. 
never met with/any body whocould perceive the leaft wet of the 
fame fmell in any Orobanche found in Britain. 
With refpeét ‘to ‘more modern fynonyms: of thefe tio fveiit 
Villars in his Plantes de Dauphiné, vol. ii. 407, evidently appears to} 
have known them both, but thought .them one fpecies; he having 
only been anxious to diftinguith from them the O. cerulea, Engl. 
Bot. ¢. 423s about which indeed there can be no difpute. . Pollich’s 
moft excellent defcription leaves no doubt of his O. major being my 
caryophyllacea; 1 have therefore quoted him without any hefitation. 
Haller under his No. 295 feems to have intended neither of thefe, 
but rather the O. minor, Engl. Bot. t. 422, except that he mentions the 
clove-like odour. He refers to Micheli, who publithed a little 
Italian work in octavo at Florence, in 1723, upon this genus, chiefly. 
to indicate a method of extirpation. This book enumerates many 
varieties, among which probably our new {pecies are all to be found. 
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