332 DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 



Baftard Plantain. Anglis. 



In muddy and gravelly places, where water has 

 ftagnated in the winter, but not very frequent. G. 



VIII. IX. 



It is a minute creeping plant, producing fmooth 

 elliptic leaves m tufcs, (landing on very long 

 footftalks. The flower-flaiks are radical, much 

 fhorter than the leaves, and produce each a fingle 

 fmall white flower, of a regular figure, a little hairy 

 and reddifh within, containing 4 ftamina, growing 

 in pairs, two a little higher than the others. The 

 ftyle declines to one fide of the co/oUa. The cap- 

 fule is nearly round. 



OROBANCHE. Gen. pi 779. 



Cal. 2-^dus. Cor. ringens. Cap^. i-locularis, 2-val- 

 vis, polyfperma. Glandula fub bafi germinis. 



OROBANCHE caule fimpiiciffinio pubefcente, 

 llaminibus fubexfertis. Sp. pi 882. {Ger. em, 

 1311./. 2. Moris. Hiji. / J 2. /. 1 6. /. i .) 



Broom-rape. Anglis. 



In dry paflure, but rare. Upon the buck of Burnt- 



ijland. Sihhald. 



The root is a parafitical bulb, covered with oval- 

 lanceolate fcales. It adheres by a fibre to the 

 root of fome other plant, commonly of the Dia- 

 delphotis kind, fuch as broom, &c. The ftalk is 

 10 or 12 inches high and fiefliy, having no other 

 leaves than fcales, like thofe of the root. Ihe 

 flowers grow in a long cylindrical fpike, each 

 fubtended by an oval-lanceolate fcale or Bra^ea. 



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