MIMULUS—OROBANCHE. 347 
James Ward. In the Vale of Pickering in wet places at Kirkby- 
Moorside and Normanby Bridge ; Archd. Peirson. 
Mimulus luteus Willd. Alien. An occasional straggler 
from garden cultivation. Rocks in the Hawes stream near the 
town; J. Wheldon! Kildale; W. Mudd! Strands pasture, 
Carperby; J. Percival, A native of North America. 
Orobanche major Angl.(= 0. Rapum Thuill.). English 
type. Native. Area 3.1. Range too. Parasitic upon the 
roots of furze, very rare. It has been gathered by M. B. 
Slater in the neighbourhood of Malton, and by A. R. Waller 
at Strensall. 
Orobanche elatior Sutt. Germanic type. Native. Area 3. 
Range roo. Parasitic on Centaurea Scabiosa, very rare. It 
was found by Mr. Hebblethwaite in 1855 on the Limestone 
between Hildenley and Easthorpe, and has been noticed by 
various other botanists in the same neighbourhood. 
Orobanche minor Sutt. Germanic type. Native. Area 
87.2. Range o-100. Parasitic principally upon Clover, 
occasionally plentiful in clover-fields in the low country. 
Burniston, Howe-upon-Swale, Nunwick, Northallerton, Thirsk, 
Sowerby, etc. 
Orobanche ramosa L. Alien. Casually on hemp ona 
manure heap in a flax-field between Wighill and Healaugh, 
several plants, Aug. 1880; Æ A. Lees. 
Orobanche rubra Smith. Scottish type Native. Xero- 
philous. Area 7. Range 250-400. I saw this species in 1861 
at Leyburn Shawl, where it had been met with previously by 
Messrs. Ward and Pulleine. It grows upon Thyme, upon the 
surface of this Main Limestone Scar, immediately beneath the 
débris of the flagstone quarries which yield Zvesdalia and 
Arenaria tenuifolia. On the Main Limestone Scars above 
Leyburn, Preston, and Carperby, up to 1,200 feet, first gathered 
by Jas. Ward, and lately, in fresh places, by J. Percival. 
May 1892. 
