150 DIDYNAMIA— ANGIOSPERMIA. Orobanche. 



6. O. ramosa. Branched Broom-rape. 



Stem branched. Bracteas three. Upper hp of the corolla 

 deeply cloven ; lower equally three-lobed ; segments all 

 rounded and entire. Style smoothish. 



O. ramosa. Linn. Sp.Pl.882. Willd. v. 3. 353. Fl.Br.67l. Engl. 

 Bot.v.3. 1. 184. Sutton Tr. of Linn. Sac. v. 4. 185. DiU.inRaii 

 S2jn.*288. Ger. Em. 1312. f. Bauh. Pin. 88. BuU. Fr.L399. 



O. n. 296. Hall. Hist. V. 1. 130. 



Orobanche. Corner. Epit. 311./. Lob. Ic. v. 2. 270. f. 



In low moist rich fields, attached to the roots of Hemp. 



Near Beccles, Suffolk. J. Sherard. In hemp fields at Brome, 

 Norfolk, and Mettingham, Suffolk. Mr. Woodward. AtOutwell, 

 Norfolk. Rev. Dr. Sutton. Near Wisbeach. Rev. Mr. Relhan. 



Annual. August, September. 



Root fibrous ; sometimes diseased and tumid, probably from the 

 attacks of an insect, as represented in Engl. Bot. Stem more 

 or less branched, rather wavy, a little downy ; the scales few 

 and scattered. Fl. loosely spiked, light purple j the 5 segments 

 of the corolla nearly equal ; palate downy, yellowish. Bracteas 

 each accompanied by a pair of interior, very narrow ones. 

 Filam. shortish, somewhat fringed at the base. Germ, roundish, 

 smooth. Style nearly or quite smooth. Stigma white. 



In the south of Europe the Jlowers are more highly coloured than 

 with us, as well as larger. 



The withering, not deciduous, corolla in this genus and Lathrcea, 

 p. 1 26, seems scarcely sufficient, as a technical character, to 

 establish a separate natural order, nor will analogy permit us 

 to take into account, for this purpose, their parasitical mode 

 of growth. 



