Five Brith Species of Orobanche: 187 
In the Botanical Arrangement it is {aid to be found “in corn-fields 
and dry paftures;” and in the Species Plantarum, “ in ficcis.” We 
have known it found in ‘no other than‘a very rich, light, and moift 
"foil. 1é"'may Be doubted whether the O. ramofa of Ofbeck, p. 58 
of the original ‘edition, and p. 78! of the wie papa be the 
fame {pecies with ours, or not. 
EXPLANATION of TAB. XVII. 
Fig. 1. Reprefents a root of the ih ifolium pratenfe in the fecond year 
of its growth. 
2. An embryo plant of Orcbanche minor; attached firmly by its 
centre, which is a yellow pellucid gem, covered with a few 
{quame, to the root of the Trifolium, and throwing out 
fibres of a brownifh colour into the furrounding foil. 
3. A young plant juft ‘rifen"to a capitulum, covered above the 
furface of the earth with pellucid glanduliferous hairs. 
4. Orobanche elatior, in its natural fize. 
a. The {pike. ¢ 
b. That part of the ftem which i is found below the fur- 
face of the « earth. Note—aand 4 are not corre- 
fpondent parts The intermediate part, which 
conneéts the »ottom of a with the top of 4, needs 
no figure for Se Rhco., 3 it is ufually about the 
length of Db 1H) ay 1 
c. Part of the root of Centaurea fcabiofa, 
d. The corolla expanded, 
‘e. One of the ftamina. © 5 
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