Dr. Smittn’s Remarks on\fome Foreign Species of Orobanche. °471 
The ©. mmor. is the only one I: have ever met with growing in 
fuch -fituations, or in fuch abundance.:as to be deemed a weed ; and 
it attaches itfelf, as: Haller obferves, to the roots .of Diadelphous 
plants, particularly clover. Gmelin in his Flora Sibirica mentions 
feveral varieties of what’ He took” for’ ‘O! major; but it is not poffible 
to determine what they. really are. ) 
B Haller has recorded as a thie. of. his : 29 , a Sy ifs tle of 
which a drawing had been fent him, “ with a very, denfe cena 
fpike, a very, fhort flower, and-ftyle projecting confiderably out of.it,’ 
which, he adds, “is fo remarkable as to deferve being reckoned a 
fpecies, provided more {pecimens could be'difcovered.” “This fame 
plant is'to be found in the Linnzan herbarium, gathered in eaftern 
Pomerania by a Mr. Brunnemann, and:very® well ipreferved. . If a 
variety ‘of any thing,!it muft/be ©. caryophylacea, with’ which the 
ftamina precifely agree; nor doés it'differ' from the cther fpecimens 
in my pofleflion; except 'in~being ‘more> luxuriant, ‘with »a greater 
number of flowers in.a.younger; andi therefore conical, {pike, and 
an the corolla and ftamina being not half folong as ufual, while the 
fiyle protrudes confiderably. : The igérmen is{mooth's ftyle flightly 
pubeféent, incurvedy with’ a dark<cdlourddftigma; bractex, calyx, 
aiid'divifions of the corolla exa&tbyas ih the. fpecies to which I have 
ventured to refer it, 
_-: Dhaveoonly to obferve farther, that the: Oncatnarentpiflace 
paren very! nearly with Ovadajor inylsabitiand fizey as well °as’ the - 
appearance of its flowers ; but differs from’the: latter ‘invhaving, the 
_ three fegments of the lower lip obtufe, and much more fringed and ~ 
curled. The germen alfo is entirely fmooth, which in O. major is 
hairy in the upper part, and the ftyle is much lefs downy than in 
that {pecies. The moft ftriking mark, however, of O. caryophyllacea 
confifts in the lower part of the ftamina, on the infide, being thickly 
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