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cloven or entire ; lower smaller, spreading, obtuse. Nect. 

 a notched, depressed, fleshy gland, proceeding from the 

 receptacle, at the lower side of the germen. Filam. awl- 

 shaped, shorter than the corolla, concealed by its upper 

 lip. Anth. converging, obtuse, their lobes pointed be- 

 neath. Germ, roundish, compressed. Style cylindrical, 

 scarcely the length of the corolla. Stigvia abrupt, notched, 

 deflexed. C<z/J5. roundish, obtuse, with a point, of one 

 cell and two membranous elastic valves, invested with 

 the enlarged inflated calyx. Seeds numerous, roundish, 

 rough, attached to a spongy, longitudinal, double recep- 

 tacle, in the centre of each valve. 

 Pei'ennial, succulent, parasitical, pallid ho'bs, partly subter- 

 raneous, growing either immersed in crumbling vegetable 

 mould, or among decayed leaves, at the roots of trees. 

 Leaves thick, loosely imbricated, whitish, entire. Fl. ax- 

 illary, either corymbose, or forming a leafy cluster, always 

 above ground, purplish, or white, erect or drooping. 



1. \j. Squa?narid. Greater Tooth- wort. 



Flowering branches erect, simple. Flowers axillary, uni- 

 lateral, pendulous ; lower lip in three lobes; upper cloven. 



L. Squamaria. Linn. Sp. PI. 844. Willd. v. 3. 201. FL Br. 654. 



Engl. Bot. v.l.t. 50. Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc. 1 0. 13. Hook. Scot. 



187. Fl. Dan. t. 136. 

 Squamaria. Riv. Monop. Irr. t. 89./. 2. 

 S. n.297. Hall. Hist. v.l.UO. 

 Anblatum. Cord. Hist. 89. 2./. 



A. Cordi, sive Aphyllon. Raii Sy7i. * 288. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 783. f. 

 Dentaria. Matth. Falgr.v.2.3]3.f. 

 D. major. Camer. Epit.7 05. f. 



D. major MatthioJi. Ger. Em. 1585./. Blackstone 23. 

 Orobanche radice dentata major et minor. Rudb. Elijs. i\ 2. 230. 



/7,8. 

 O. radice squammata, foliis rotundis, flore pendente et suaveru- 



bente Funbaensis. Ibid. 234./. 17. 

 O. radice dentata, altius radicata, foliis et flovibus albo-purpureis. 



Mentz. Pugill. t. 3. Moris, v. 3. 503. sect. 1 2. «. 1 6./. 14 j see 



alsof. 11. 



In dry shady places, mostly at the roots of hazels or elms. 



In several parts of Kent. Ray, Dickson. In a shady lane near 

 Harefield, Middlesex, plentifully. Blackstone. We.stmoveland. 

 Huds. At Exton, near Stamford. Earl of Gainsborough. In 

 Newburgh woods, Yorkshire. Rev. Archdeacon Peirson. Under 

 high rocks behind Saxton's bath house, Matlock. Rev. W. F. 

 Drake. In St. Catharine's wood, Dublin. JVade PL Rar. Hib. 48. 



