192 EN'GLISH BOTANY. 



Stem simple, very rarely branched. Flowers ascending, in a 

 rather lax spike. Lowest bract of each flower lanceolate, a little 

 longer than the calyx ; lateral ones smaller, lanceolate-subulate. 

 Calyx with 4 lanceolate acuminate segments, shorter than the 

 tube of the corolla ; the upper side generally closed by a small 

 fifth tooth ; each segment with a strong mid-vein. Corolla-tube 

 nearly straight, very slightly curved at the apex, where the tube 

 is much dilated ; upper lip 2-lobed, with the lobes refuse and 

 apiculatc ; lower lip 3-lobed, with the lobes oblong, sub-obtuse. 

 Stamens inserted a little below the contraction in the corolla- 

 tube ; filaments sub-glabrous ; anthers hairy at the sutures. 

 " Stigma yellow " (Coss. & Germ.). 



Parasitical on Artemisia campestris, on the Continent. On 

 " Achillea Millefolium ? Alderney " (Bab.). 



Channel Islands. Perennial. Summer. 



Stem 4 to 16 inches high, white or tinged with blue, very 

 tough and somewhat woody. Flowers 1 to ly inch long, " bluish- 

 violet, veined " (Coss. & Germ.). Capsule ovoid. Plant glandular 

 pubescent. 



Of this I have seen only Continental specimens ; and as dried 

 specimens are useless for drawing from, our plate is copied from 

 Reichenbach, Icones PL Crit. Vol. VII. Figs. 929, 930. 



Sand Broom-rape. 



French, Orobanche des Sables. German, Sand Sommerwirz. 



SPECIES III.— OROBANCHE CS3RULEA. ViU. 



Plate MIX. 



Reich. Ic. FL Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCCLXX. 



Phdipaa c;crulea, C. A. Mey. Reuter, in D. C. Prod. Vol. XL p. 5. Gr. &, Godr. PL 

 de Fr. Vol. II. p. 624. Reich fd. 1. c. p. 87. 



Stem simple, very rarely branched. Flowers ascending, in a 

 rather dense spike. Lowest bract of each flower lanceolate, a 

 little shorter than the calyx ; lateral ones smaller, lanceolate- 

 subulate. Calyx with 4 lanceolate acuminate segments, shorter 

 than the tube of the corolla ; the upper side generally closed by 

 a small fifth tooth ; each segment with a strong mid-vein. Corolla- 

 tube slightly curved in the apical half, slightly enlarged towards 

 the apex ; upper lip 2-lobed, with the lobes acute ; lower lip 

 3-lobed, with the lobes ovate, subacute. Stamens inserted a little 



