OROBANC ttACEJE. 1 99 



and North along the West coast to Carnarvon. In Ireland chiefly 

 near the coast. 



England, Ireland. Perennial. Summer. 



Stem 6 inches to 2 feet high, purple. Mowers rather distant, 

 f to f inch long, cream-coloured, strongly veined with purple. 

 Bracts purple. 



Most prohahly O. Hederae is merely a sub-species of O. minor, 

 as the more lax spike, 1-nerved sepals, and yellowish stigma of 

 2 coherent globular lobes, are all the points by which it can be 

 distinguished from the common form of O. minor; at the same 

 time it must be borne in mind that the differences between the 

 different species of Orobanehe are very slight, and the junction of 

 O. Hederse with O. minor would necessitate the reduction of half 

 the species described by M. Reuter ; so that it is necessary to pause 

 before inaugurating such wholesale changes. 



Ivy Broom-rape. 



German, Eplieu Sommervourz. 



SPECIES X— O EOBANCHE MINOR. Linn. 

 Plates MXVI. MX VI I. 



Flowers spreading. Bracts as long as, or longer than the 

 flowers. Sepals about as long as the tube of the corolla, entire or 

 2-cleft ; the upper segment usually with 3 conspicuous nerves. 

 Corolla pubescent with gland-tipped hairs ; tube rather narrowly 

 cylindrical, slightly curved, with the curvature greatest towards 

 the base ; upper lip sub-erect, notched or 2-lobed, with the lobes 

 spreading ; lower lip 3-lobed, with the middle lobe slightly larger 

 than the others ; all crimped and sharply denticulate. Stamens 

 inserted a little below the middle of the corolla-tube ; filaments 

 very slightly hairy on the inner side towards the base, their upper 

 half and the style sub-glabrous. Stigma of 2 divaricate lobes, 

 purple. 



Sub-Species I— Orobanehe eu-minor. 



Plate MXVI. 



Eeic/i. Ic. FL Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCCCIV. 



Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2513. 



O. minor, Thuill. Reuter, in D. C. Prod. Vol. XI. p. 29. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. 



p. 237. Hook. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 301. Koch, Syu. Fl. Germ, et llelv. 



ed. ii. p. Gil. Gr. & Goilr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. G40. 



