184 Rev. Mr. Sur ron’s Defcription of 
Habitat inter gramina, in pafcuis, et ad margines agrorum— 
Sheringham juxta mare, Beefton, et Northrepps. 
We are entered now upon a divifion of the genus in which the 
fpecies, befides having the upper lip of the corolla divided, differ in 
many refpeéts from thofe’ in the laft: the fhape of the flower is no 
longer cylindrical ; the ftamina are fhort and filiform, the ftigma 
with no apparent tranfverfe fiffure, the calyx tubular, the bractez 
ternate, and the plants altogether lefs fucculent and perhaps lefs 
parafitic. The character therefore being in general fo different, 
and more obvious marks of difcrimination prefenting themfelves in 
this divifion, I prefume a {mall deviation from the form of the {pe- 
cific definitions before laid down may be allowed. 
The {tem in this fpecies, though generally, is not always un- 
~branched; the Rev. R. B. Francis of Holt has remarked to me, 
that, if mutilated, it will throw out lateral fhoots ; and I have ob- 
ferved, that this is not the cafe with any of the three foregoing 
fpecies ; for if the entire fpike of any of them is broken off, even at 
an early period, the ftem decays; and if great part of it only is 
broken off, the work of nature is carried on in perfecting the few 
flowers that remain, on elongated footftalks—From this circum- 
ftance, and from having alfo feen a perfect {pecimen that was 
branched towards the bottom, I have been induced to define this 
fpecies Caule fubfimplici. 
The little that was known of it in England, till latcly, was from 
Mr. Pitchford’s fpecimen found in 1779, and Mr. Lightfoot’s (fee 
With. Bot. Arr. p. §58, and Engl. Bot. p. 184.) Being moft allied to the 
ramofa, it was taken at firft fora variety of it, and defcribed as fuch 
in Withering, though with a very incorreét reference to its habitat. 
In 1796 Mr. Scrimpfhire found feveral at Sheringham, and I found 
a few 
