BROOM=RAPE FAMILY. Otobanchaceas. 



BROOM-RAPE FAMILY. Orohanchaceca. 



Fleshy parasitic herbs having yellowish scales instead 

 of leaves ; the flowers perfect, or pistillate and staininate 

 on the same plant. Stamens four. The tiny seeds borne 

 in a capsule. Visited by various flies and bees. 



A parasitic plant which draws its suste- 

 Beech=drops or ^^^^^^ fj-^^^^ tj^e roots of the beech tree. 

 E^phlcjiT ^^^^ st^'^^ i^ tough, straight, almost up- 

 Virginiana right-branched, stained with brown mad- 

 Dull magenta der, and set with -a, few small, dry scales. 

 buff=brown rj^j^^ curved tubular, dull magenta and 

 October buff-brown upper flowers are purple- 



striped ; although generally sterile they 

 are complete in every part, the style slightly protruding 

 beyond, and the stamens just within the throat. The 

 tiny lower flowers are cleistogamous — closed to outward 

 agencies and self-fertilized. A few of the upper flowers 

 are cross-fertilized by bees. 6-20 inches high. Beech 

 w^oods, Me., south and west to Wis. and Mo. The name 

 means on the heech. 



A pale parasitic plant, the stem hidden 

 cZophou! ^y t^i® overlapping, light tan-colored, 

 Americana lance-shaped or ovate pointed scales ; the 

 Pale dull flowers perfect, set in a many -scaled dense 



yellow spike, the upper lip hooded, the lower 



May-July small and three-lobed, the stamens pro- 



truding ; the lips are pale ochre yellow fading toward 

 the corolla. 3-8 inches high. In rich woods over tree 

 roots, Me., south, and west to Mich. 



A beautiful little parasitic plant bearing 

 Naked Broom= ^ ^^^ brownish ovate bracts near the 

 flowe^red"^ root, and sending up 1-4 erect, slender. 

 Cancer Root one-flowered stalks ; the curved tubular, 

 (h-obanche five-lobed flower is purplish or light violet, 



nniflora ^^ rarely cream white, f inch long, ex- 



A"ril'june ternally fine-hairy, and delicately fragrant. 

 Cross-fertilized mostly by the smaller bees 

 (Halictus) and the bumblebees. 3-6 inches high. In 

 moist woods. Me. , south to Va. 



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