Five Britifh Speciesof Orobanches, ato 
-ginibus agrorum, juxta Centaureas /cabiofam et ngram, Seabiofam 
arvenfem, &c.—Guntons, pists Sheringham, Catton, Coftefey, 
in glateofisw, (05 yh 
This is no uncommon, plant: it has hitherto been conftantly 
confounded with the preceding ; | but though they are fimilar in 
general appearance, the difference between them is very difcernible 
_on a clofer infpeétion ; and FAP, who. acknowledge the force ofthat 
. fentiment « of Linneus, that, ¢ * minimis partibus per, totum-nature 
campum ¢ certitudo omnis innititur, quas qui. fugit, pariter ea 
fugit*,” will be ready to allow this to be a diftinet fpecies, There is 
reafon to fuppofe it may have been noticed by Ray very early, 
‘though ‘not particularly’ diftinguifhed | by him 5) for in his Aiforia 
“Plantarum circa, Cantabrigiam  nafcentium, printed’ in 1660, ‘his’ firtt 
work in Botany, he {peaks of having found the 'O. flor3 majore of 
J.B. “in a field of barley, on the right-hand of the way between 
Cambridge and Grantchefter, alfo in a'corn-field at Cherryhinton,” 
aad in which’ this is'véry likely to’be found, as~it ‘grows ‘among 
erbaceous plants, and! heveron the roots of broom ‘or futze :—He 
renasbeaite at Gimlingay, growing at the roots of! broom plenti- 
‘fully )hete he tindoubtedly means our O. ‘major, for that is ftill to 
“be IBWAG Ciebet in abundance. “In his Catalogus Plantarum Anglie, 
-publiftied ten’ years” ‘afterwards, he’ otices then: me cheap reg peioes 
ne inteYdum “ee fle TepeReY 3 odut 4 ak 
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idel ;eilsupect .eutsidslid endau -; stieqa xiBi 
mobi ebitotat jm '3POROBANCHE minor, — 
“Caule “fimplicifimo., -Corollis ‘quadvifidis : Staminibus inferné 
~ pilofis, Se “Stigmate retufo, Stylo fuperne g gla 1. r 
+ Std ededlb, pi 222. under the 280th aphorifm : wtb ationis on 
conftantiffimas differentias fubminiftrant. no! oub ae 
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