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hedges. Plant with a woody stem, throwing off climbing and 

 straggling branches ; lower leaves heart-shaped, upper ones au- 

 ricled. Flower-clusters terminal, or opposite to the leaves, 

 drooping ; corolla purple, with two green dots at the base of each 

 of the five segments ; anthers united in a conical form, large and 

 yellow. Berries oval, scarlet, poisonous. Hedges near Torre 

 Abbey, etc. (E. B. t. 565.) P. vi.-vm. 



2. S. nigrum (common Nightshade.) Sides of fields, and 

 waste places. Plant about 1 foot high, with extensively spread- 

 ing branches. Leaves alternate, ovate, wavy at the edges, on 

 short stalks. Flowers in small lateral clusters, alternate with 

 the leaves, white ; berries small, round, and black. Plant poison- 

 ous. Xear Torre Abbey. Paignton, near the sands. Groodring- 

 ton sands. (E. B. t. 566.) A. vi.-ix. 



OED. LXI. OROBANCHACEJE. 

 OROBANCHE. BROOM-RAPE. 



1. O. major (greater Broom-rape^ Parasitic on roots of 

 Furze and Broom. Plant from 12 to 18 inches high, leafless, at 

 first of a pale yellow, but afterwards of a lurid purplish-brown ; 

 stem thick and fleshy, with small lanceolate scales. Flowers ses- 

 sile, corolla tubular, upper lip undivided, lower one 3-lobed, the 

 middle one being usually the largest ; calyx consisting of from 2 

 to 4 lanceolate lobes. Daddyhole Ham,' on the descent to the 

 Quarry. Cliffs between Meadfoot and Hope's Nose. Babbi 

 combe. (E. B. t. 421.) 0. Rapum, Bab. P. v.-vn. 



2. O. minor (lesser -B.) Parasitic on many different kinds 

 of plants, but usually upon Clover. Smaller and more slender 

 in all its parts than the last ; stem rather wavy, scales distant. 

 Flower- spike loose, flowers as well as the upper part of the stem 

 light bluish-purple, tube of the corolla contracted in the middle, 

 lobes of the lower lip almost equal, lower part of the stamens 

 hairy. Ide, near Exeter, Mr. Earle. (E. B. t. 422.) A. TI.-VIII. 



3. O. Hederse (Ivy JB.) Parasitic on roots of Ivy. Con- 

 sidered by Bentham to be a variety of the last, which it very 

 much resembles, differing in having the stigma yellow instead of 

 purple. Rock Walk. Daddyhole Plain. (E. B. S. t. 2859.) 



P. YI.-YIII. 



LATHR/EA. TOOTHWORT. 

 la. Squamaria (greater Toothivort.) In woods and thickets, 



