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their scent powerful, resembling a honey-suckle, or pink. Cal. 

 of 2 narrow, lanceolate, undivided leaves. Cor. but little in- 

 flated; upper lip cloven, lower in 3 rounded segments, all the 

 margins crenate, and fringed with short glandular hairs. FUam. 

 fringed and glandular at the base ; Dr. Hooker says at the 

 . summit also. Anth. and stigma red ; the latter sometimes with 

 3 lobes. Style partially glandular and hairy. Germen smooth. 



** Bracteas three to each Jloisoer. 



5. O. ccprulea. Purple Broom-rape. 



Stem simple. Bracteas three. Upper lip of the corolla 

 cloven and notched ; lower in thi'ee equal entire seg- 

 ments. Style downy. 



O. cserulea. Villars Dauph. v. 2. 406. Fl. Br. 67 1 . Engl. Bot. v. 6. 



t. 423. Sutton Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. 4. 1 82. JVilld. v. 3. 352. 

 O. purpurea. Jacg. Austr. t. 276, 

 O. ramosa /3. With. 558. 

 O. n. 294. Hall. Hist. V. 1. 129. 

 O, n, 28, var. 1. Gmel. Sib. v. 3. 21 5. t. 46./. 1. 

 O. quarta. Lob. Ic. v. 2. 269./. 

 O, flore obsoleto majore. Moris, sect. 12. t. 16./. 2 ; the figure at 



least. 

 O, flore majore. Ger. Em. \3\2.f. 

 Nidus avis flore et caxile violaceo-purpureo colore, Goodyer in 



Ger. Em. 228, nof. 



In grassy pastures near the sea. 



In the borders of fields in Hampshire. Goodyer. Near Northreps, 

 Norfolk. Mr. Scarles, 1779. At Sheringham, Beeston and 

 Northreps. Rev. Dr. Sutton and Mr. W. Skrimshire. 



Perennial. July. 



Root fibrous, parasitical on those of various herbaceous plants. 

 Stem a foot high, more or less, unbranched, dark grey, minutely 

 downy like the rest of the plant, angular, scarcely swelling at 

 the base ; scales brown, all rather distantly scattered. There 

 are 2 smaller, interior, linear-lanceolate bracteas, besides the 

 usual solitary one, to each flower. Calyx-leaves combined, ra- 

 ther unequally cloven. Cor. funnel-shaped, angular, curved, 

 downy, of a greyish or blueish violet ; upper lip ascending, 

 cloven, with some intermediate notches ; lower in 3 equal, lan- 

 ceolate, entire lobes, with a white, elevated, divided palate, 

 Filam. quite smooth. Style minutely downy. 



The botanical history of this species is embroiled with that of the 

 Linnaean Orchis abortiva, Limodorum austriacum of Clusius, 

 whence the latter has wrongly been admitted into the list of 

 British plants. See Tr. of Linn. Soc.v.4. 164, 



