276 OEOBANCHEM. [OROBANCHE. 



Parasitic on Centaurea ScaMoga, chiefly in the E. counties from York and 

 Durham southwards, rare ; fl. June-Aug. Habit of 0. major, of which it is 

 probably a sub-species ; but the corolla is narrower, more compressed above, 

 the lobes more toothed. Bracts shorter than the corolla, upper lip deeply 

 notched, margins innexed. DiSTUiB. Europe from Denmark southwards to 

 the Caucasus, Siberia. 



3. O. caryophylla'cea, Sm. ; brown, sepals 2-fid several-nerved shorter 

 than the corolla-tube, lobes of lower lip subequal waved and toothed, 

 filaments hairy below glandular above, stigma purple. 0. Galii, Duby. 

 On Galia, Rubi, &c., S. Kent ; fl. June. Stem 6-12 in., stout, swollen at the 



base. Spike lax-flowered ; bracts shorter than the corolla. Corolla 1 in., 

 tube broad, curved ; lobes large, reddish-brown or purplish, spreading ; 

 upper lip arched, notched. DISTRIB. Europe from Denmark southwards 

 (excl. Spain and Greece), Siberia, W. Asia. 



4. O. ru'bra, Sm. ; red,- sepals entire 1 -nerved subulate longer than 

 the corolla-tube, lobes of lip toothed and crisped, lower with the mid-lobe 

 longest, filaments subpilose below, glandular above, stigma pale red. 0. 

 Epithymum, DC. 



On Thymus when growing on trap rocks, chiefly on the W. coast, from Ross to 

 Cornwall; N. and W. of Ireland; fl. June- Aug. Stem 4-8 in. , tuberous 

 below. Spike lax -flowered. Corolla ^-jj in., equalling or shorter than the 

 bracts, dull red ; tube broad, curved ; lobes small, erose ; upper lip arched, 

 almost entire. DISTRIB. Baltic, France, Italy, Turkey, Germany, Himalaya. 



5. O. mi nor, Sutt. ; yellow-brown or purplish, slender, sepals 1- or 

 more-nerved with long slender points, corolla- tube contracted in the middle, 

 lobes of lower lip subequal or the middle a little the largest, filaments 

 more or less hairy below, stigmas subglobose. 



On various plants in many English counties, from the Border to Cornwall ; 



absent from Scotland ; one sub-sp. only is found in Ireland ; fl. June Oct. 



Stem ^-2 ft., rather slender. Spike elongate, many-flowered, lax or dense. 



Floicers i-ij in. DISTRIB. Europe from Denmark southwards, N. Africa. 

 Sub-sp. MI NOR proper ; bracts equalling or exceeding the corolla whose tube 



is gently curved, limb white or yellowish, lobes of upper lip spreading, of 



lower nearly equal toothed and waved, stigmas purple. On clover ; very 



rare in Ireland. 

 Sub-sp. AMKTHYS'TEA, Thnill. (sp.); corolla much curved in the lower third, 



upper two-thirds nearly straight, mid-lobe of lower lip much the largest. 



Cornwall, Devon, S. Kent, Channel Islands. 

 Sub-sp. PI'CRIDIS, F. Melinites (sp.) ; very pale, bracts about equalling the 



flowers, sepals entire or 2-cleft exceeding the slightly-curved corolla-tuho 



1 -nerved, upper lip retuse, tip inflexed, lobes of Tower lip toothed nearly 



equal, stigmas purple. On P-icrls, Cambridge, S. Kent, I. of Wight, Tenby. 

 Sub-sp. HED'EU.E, hnlj (sp.) ; spike more lax, sepals 1-uerved, stigma 



yellowish. 0. oafbatct, Eng. Bot. Suppl. On ivy, Carnarvon and Leicester 



to Cornwall, I. of Wight. 



SUB-GEN. 2. Phelipse'a, Tournef. (gen.). Stem simple or branched. 

 Flowers 3-bracteate. Calyx tubular, 4-5- lobed. Capsule with the valves 

 free above. 



6. O. ceeru'lea, Vill. ; blue-purple, stem simple, calyx-lobes 5 lancro- 



