172. Dr. Smitu’s Remarks.on fome Foreign Species of Orobanche: 
clothed with hairs, whereas that part in O. major is always perfectly 
fmooth. The ftigma of O. jose is brown or purplith ; scabs 
of O. major yellow. itcanripsttiarti 
2, OROBANCHE gracilis. 
O. caule fimplici, corolla inflata; labio inferiore breviffimo laciniis 
obcordatis ineequalibus fimbriato-crifpis ; ftaminibus ie a 
pilofis exfertis. 
Gathered in hilly pales at St. Orfefe near Genoa, in uly 1787. 
I can meet with no fynonyms for this Fens Be It has a taller and 
more flender ftem than O. major, and is upon the whole lefs pubef- 
cent. The braétez are. fhorter than the flower. Corolla the fize 
of O. major, but the upper lip is of a dark or purplifh colour, and 
lefs fimbriated or crifped than in that fpecies. The lower lip is re-. 
markably fhort, in three obcordate fimbriated fegments, of which 
the middle one is larger than: the other two,..and-is connected at its 
bafe with the very prominent two-lobed palate of the flower. The 
ftamina are flender, thinly clothed’ all over, as well as the ftyle, 
with fcattered hairs, and projet out of the mouth of the flower. 
The germen is fmooth. I do not recollect its ayn when sem 
peculiar {mell. 
The O, gracilis has) moft affinity to the mor in {ome of it its pte 
racters ; but differs in -its' larger inflated corolla, fhort lower lip, 
longer ftamina and hairy ftyle. 
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