DIDYNAMIA— ANGIOSPERMIA. Orobanche. 147 



In bushy places on a barren gravelly soil, growing on the roots of 

 Broom or Furze. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Root of a few fibres. Stem about a foot high, erect, dusky, un- 

 branched, angular, hollow, fleshy, clothed, like every other part, 

 with short, rough, glandular pubescence, and beset with scattered, 

 lanceolate, upright scales, in the place of leaves ; the base tu- 

 mid, ovate, clothed with smaller, more abundant scales. Spike 

 terminal, simple, rather dense, of from 15 to about 20 flowers, 

 of a dull purplish brown, without any scent, and after awhile 

 turning entirely brown, dry and membranous. Bracteas soli- 

 tary under each flower, lanceolate, acute, rusty and downy. 

 Calyx-leaves deeply cloven. Upper lip of the corolla large, 

 sometimes slightly cloven, often entire and rather pointed j lower 

 in 3 acute, nearly equal, wavy, sometimes crenate lobes. Filam. 

 dilated and channelled, as well as perfectly smooth, in their 

 lower half ; glandular and downy at the summit. Anth. smooth, 

 brown. Germ, downy all over, as well as the $hjle. Stigma of 

 2 large, distant, globular, yellow lobes. 



Haller's n. 295 appears, by his description of the smell, and by 

 Swiss specimens, to be the real 0. major, garyophyllum olens of 



• Bauhin's Pinax S7 ; . caryophyllacea, Sm. Tr. of Linn. Soc. 

 V.4. 169 ; though part of Haller's account applies rather to our 

 minor, especially with regard to its being a troublesome weed. 

 This O. caryophyllacea has been confounded by most former bo- 

 tanists with our major, as likewise with elatior. Its stamens are 

 hairy internally at the base. Style somewhat downy. 



2. O. elatior. Tall Broom-rape. 



Stem simple. Corolla funnel-shaped; lower lip with acute, 

 nearly equal segments. Stamens downy. Style smooth. 



O. elatior. Sutton Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. 4. 178. t. 17. Willd.v.3. 

 349. Fl. Br. 669. Engl.Bot.v. 8. t. 568. Fl. Dan. t. 1338, good. 

 O. major. Sibth.\9\. Prof. Williams. 

 Orobanche. Matth. Valgr. v. 1 . 489./. 



In clover fields, thickets, and bushy hilly places, on a gravelly soil, 

 not uncommon ; but never on the roots of Broom or Furze. 

 Rev. Dr. Sutton. 



Perennial. July, August, 



Taller, and of a more yellowish hue than the former, with^o!<;er5 

 of a lighter purple, more wavy in their margins ; their upper lip 

 lobed. They are commonly three times more numerous in the 

 spike than in that species, and of a smaller size. But their clear- 

 est and most essential dift'erence, first remarked by Dr. Sutton, 

 consists in the stamens being downy in their lower half, within- 

 side, and smooth at the top ; while the germen and style are all 

 over perfectly smooth. The stamens proceed from a higher part 

 of the tube than in 0. major. 



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