orobanchacEjE. 195 



in the counties of Cornwall, Glamorgan, York, Fife, Argyle, Ross, 

 and in the Isle of Skye ; also in co. Clare, Galway, Donegal, Deny, 

 and Antrim. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer 

 and Autumn. 



Stem rather stout, 3 to 9 inches high, with numerous scales 

 tinged with purplish-red. Flowers -f to f inch long, more or less 

 tinged with red. Corolla livid-red, smaller and less enlarged 

 upwards than in O. Rapum ; the upper lip with much more distinct 

 and longer lohes and fewer glandular hairs ; the lower lip more 

 distinctly denticulated. 



It is probahle that O. rubra is identical with O.Epithymum (D.C.), 

 or at the utmost that they are merely distinct as sub-species ; but 

 until the two are examined side by side in a recent state, this ques- 

 tion cannot be satisfactorily decided. 



I am indebted to Dr. S. Rea of Belfast for fresh specimens from 

 Cave Hill. 



Med Broom-rape. 



German, Rbtliche Sommerwurz. 

 This species infests the roots of broom, and is parasitic on the wild thyme. 



SPECIES VI— OROBANC HE C AR YOPH YLL ACE A. 3m. 



Plate MXII. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCCLXXXIII. Fig. 1. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. GOO. 



O. Galii, Duby. Renter, in D. C. Prod. Vol. XI. p. 21. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. 



ed. ii. p. 615. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Ft. Vol. II. p. G31. 

 O. vulgaris, D. C. Fl. Ft. Vol. III. p. 489. 



Flowers ascending. Bracts shorter than the flowers. Sepals 

 2-cleft, shorter than the tube of the corolla ; upper segment with 

 3 conspicuous veins. Corolla densely pubescent with gland-tipped 

 hairs ; tube widely cylindrical, regularly curved ; upper lip notched, 

 with the margins erect ; lower lip 3-lobed, with the lobes nearly 

 equal ; all crimped and sharply denticulate, those of the lower lip 

 almost fimbriate. Stamens inserted near the base of the corolla ; 

 filaments hairy on the inner side towards the base, their apex and 

 the whole of the style clothed with gland-tipped hairs. Stigma of 

 2 divaricate lobes, purple. 



Parasitical on Galium Mollugo (elatum) and G. verum, Lotus 

 corniculatus and l'ubus fruticosus. Very local. Only known to 

 occur in South Kent, principally about Folkestone, as about 



