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grewe in a chappel there, in a certaine place called Bottell-bankes, 
whereas the unlearned people dyd worfhyppe the image of St. 
Marye, and reckoned that the herbe grewe in that place by the 
vertue of that image.—Befides it that Diofcorides wryteth, I have 
_marked myfelfe that this herbe growethe muche aboute the rootes 
of broome, y* whych it clafpeth aboute with certaine lyttel rootes 
on everye fide lyke a dogge holdying a bone in his mouth: notwith- - 
ftanding I have not feen any broome choked with this herbe, 
howebeit I have feen the herbe called three-leved graffe or claver 
utterly ftrangled, al the natural juice clene drawne oute by -thys 
herbe.” 
It is not improbable that more than one fpecies is inchidad 3 in 
this account, for which reafon I have given the extract, and that 
the “\Choke-weed” of the clover may be different from the 
; * Choké-weed ” of the broom, and that the “Newe Chappel 
Flower” diftinét from both, may be a fpecies not yet defined. Be 
this fo or not, it will at leaft be worth while to make further re- 
fearches, and inveftigate what may yet remain ; in particular to make 
enquiry after that which Mr. Curtis fpeaks of, on the information 
_ of Mr. Thomas White, as growing upon walls in Pembrokefhire 
and the decayed floor of an old caftle; for none of thofe with which 
we are at prefent acquainted are found in fuch fituations. 
* Corollis Quadrifidis. 
1. OROBANCHE major. 
- Caule fimpliciffimo, “Corollis quadrifidis, inflatis. Staminibus 
infern¢é nudis. Stigmate bilobo, lobis diftantibus. Stylo 
' fuperné pubefcente. 
O. major, caule fimpliciflimo pubefcente, faminibus fubexfertis, 
Curtis Fl, Lond. fafc. 4. tab, 44. 
O. major, 
