332 DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 



Baftard Plantain. AngUs, 



In muddy and gravelly places, where water has 



flagnated in the winter, but not very frequent, o. 



VIII. IX. 



It is a minute creeping plant, producing fmooth 

 elliptic leaves m tufcs, {landing on very long 

 footftalks. The flower-flalks are radical, much 

 fhorter than the leaves, and produce each a fingle 

 fmall white flower, of a regular figure, a little hairy 

 and reddifh within, containing 4 ftamina, growing 

 in pairs, two a little higher than the others. The 

 ftyle declines to one fide of the coiolla. The cap- 

 fule is nearly round. 



OROBANCHE. Gen. pi 779. 



CaL 2-bidus. Cor. ringens. Caps, i-locularis, 2-val- 

 vis, polyfperma. Gto/^^/^fub bafigerminis. 

 major, li OROBANCHE caule fmipliciflimo pubefcente, 

 ilaminibus fubexfertis. Sp. pi. 882. (^Ger. em, 

 10,11. f. 2. Moris. Hi/Lf. 12. /. 16./. 1.) 



Broom-rape. Jnglis. 



In dry paflure, but rare. Upon the buck of Burnl- 



tfiand. Sibhald. 



The root is a parafitical bulb, covered with oval- 

 lanceolate fcales. It adheres by a fibre to the 

 root of fome other plant, commonly of the Bia- 

 delphous kind, fuch as broom, &c. The ftalk is 

 10 or 12 inches high and ficfhy, having no other , 

 leaves thany^W^/, like thole of the root. The 

 flowers grow in a long cylindrical fpike, each 

 fubtended by an oval-lanceolate fcale or Branca. 



The 



