174 Rev. Mr. Surron’s Defeription of 
the diftance of about two-thirds from their bafe, and are tipped with 
a globular fort of cup, bearing a vifcid gland: we may fuppofe them . 
to be intended to carry off fecretions, and to anfwer the purpofes of » 
leaves in performing the office of refpiration, &c. It is to the vola- 
tility of thefe fecretions that we are to attribute the difficulty of 
preferving living {pecimens for any length of time, and the harfh 
ungracious appearance they affume in an herbarium. 
They emit no fmell (I {peak of thofe only which I am apowe to 
defcribe), have an acrid aftringent tafte, and are rejected by all 
kinds of animals, except the minuter tribes of Crimices and 
Thripfes. 
They are acotyledons ; for, whi a feed has attached itfelf to the 
root of any living plant, to which it is fuited by its nature to adhere, 
it fwells into a Neha {quamofe gem or bulb ; and after throwing 
out around the point of adhefion feveral tender fibres, it pufhes 
up at once into a perfect plant, without any lateral lobes or cotyle= 
dons; developing firft the fquamz and then the ftalk, with a capi4 
tulum of flowers concealed by braétez, in form refembling a young 
head of afparagus: the flowers afterwards expand im fucceffion up- 
wards, and the capitulum becomes fpike. See Tab. xvii. fig. rand 2. 
—Adanfon has claffed this genus among his monocotyledons!: 
Notwithftanding what has been faid of the banefulnefs of the 
Orobanche, that it deftroys the plants which feed it, IT have had no 
experience of the fact: to me it has ever feemed to ™ sitar otat 
“<. Grow with their growth, and ftrengthen with their flrength.’’ 
Dr. William Turner, one of our ‘earlieft and moft judicious 
herbalifts, has ‘given us the following account of it: he'calls it 
Choke-weed, ‘init fays, “Tt is called about Morpeth in Northumber- 
land i place of his nativity) Newe Chappel Flower, becaufe it 
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