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294 Lxi. OROBANCHACE^. [,Orobdnche 



Ord. lxi. OROBA^tcHACE^ Ve7it. 



Calyx variously divided, persistent. Corolla Irregular, per. 

 sistent, with an imbricative aestivation. Sta7nens 4, ditlynaiuoug" 

 Anthers 2-celled, the cells distinct, parallel, often mucronate' 

 Ovai^y on a fleshy disk, 1 -celled, with 2 — 4 parietal, rnany-seeded 

 receptacles. Style I, Stigma 2 Aohed. Capsule 2'y^\wed. Seeds 

 very minute. Embryo at the apex of a fleshy albumen. 

 Herbaceous, dingy -coloured, someivhat succulent^ i^qfless plants 

 glandular and scaly ^ generally parasitical on the roots of other 

 pi nits. 



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h Orobanche. Cor. ringent, 4— 5-cleft, deciduous with a persistent 

 base. 



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2. Lathr^ea. Cor. two-lipped, deciduous, upper lip entire, concave. 



1. Orobanche Linn. Broom-rape. 



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Cal. of 2 lateral, often combined and bifid segments, brae- 

 ■teated. Cor. ringent, 4— 5-cleft. A gland is at the base of the 

 germen henaath. — Leq/Iess, broivn or purplish, herbaceous, scaly 

 plants, often attached to the roots of other plants . , — Named from 

 of)o€og^ ^leguminose or pea-lihe plants and ayx^^'^ to strangle; 

 the roots, being frequently attached to plants of that descrip- 

 tion, are supposed to injure them. 



^ Bracteas solitary mider each flower. Sepals 2, entire or bifid, distinct f^'^^ 



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sfiffinent: 



of tie ti 



f er pa 



Clover- 

 fan™ S 



or connected below in front Valves of capsule cohering at the base \ W ^^ 

 and apex. Osproleon. 



. 1.0. mcljor L. ? {greater B.) ; stem simple, sepals 2-nerved 

 equally bifid (or entire) nearly as long as the tube of the corolla, 

 corolla campanulate ventricose at the base in front curved on 

 the back, lips wavy scarcely denticulate, upper one concave 



nearly entire, lower one in 3 segments, the middle lobe twice : 



as large as the lateral ones, stamens inserted near the base of ^Ijello 



the corolla glabrous below, their upper part and the style I '*^- " 

 glandular pubescent. E. B. t. 421. (). Rapum Thuill. '''M^ 



On the roots of Broom and Furze and other legumxaose plants, J 5.0. 



not unfrequcnt m England. 1^. 5— 7.- Stem l~U ft, high, leafless. 1 #1- 

 Whole p ant dingy purplish-brown, pubescent. Stem swelling at the 



base and very scaly: scales more distant upwards and becoming I tcorc 



bracteas among the flowers, one at the base of each. Flowers in a 1 He an 



long spike. Cor. larffe, i T^ 



ratter d 

 lelow tl 



the appearance may be so corm;^^^ h.tfl'l' ' T^ "' all parasitical plants I Stjle 



uoon that wp fpqr m^nvro,:/Ai!i ^ "^ the Structure of the tribe they prey 1 J,i 



upon, uiat we lear manj reputed species are merely diflerent states of the same. ' ^'4 



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