362 scEOPHULARiACE^. — oROBANCHACEiE. [OrohaiicJie. 



back pair much longer than all the rest and very slender. Style long, white, 

 incurved, its superior half sprinkled with stiff suberect hairs ; stigma white, pel- 

 tate, glanduloso-pilose. Germen (ovarium) hairy on the top. Capsule brownish, 

 a little shorter than the calyx, oblong, vertically compressed, attenuated to a thin 

 edge, and hispid at the summit, which is obtuse or a little emarginate, and tipped 

 with the base of the style. Seeds several in each cell, oblong, pointed at both 

 ends, covered with a loose skin, longitudinally ribbed with fine transverse stria;. 



3. 'E,. Odontites, 1j. Red Eyebright. " Leaves linear-lanceolate 

 remotely serrated, upper ones (or bracteas) alternate, flowers in 

 unilateral racemes, anthers nearly glabrous, stem branched erect 

 scabrous pubescent." — Br. Fl. p. 394. E. B. t. 1415. 



/3. With white flowers. 



Abundant everywhere, whether moist or dry, in pastures, woods, waste places, 

 borders of fields, by waysides, amongst corn, &c. Pi. June — August. 0. 



p. Near Ryde, W. Wilson Saunders, Esq. Near Cowes ? Captain Beckford, 

 R.N. 



Root parasitic, according to Decaisne. 



Bartsia viseosa, or what is supposed by Dillenius, in Ray's Syn. (ed. 3tia Ind. 

 Plant. Dub.) to be that plant, is obscurely mentioned as growing in the Isle of 

 Wight, on the authority of Mr. Cole, under the name of Crataogonum cubitalis, 

 altitudinis, fiore luteo. It is not unfrequent so near this island as Poole in Dor- 

 setshire, and is still less so in the Channel Islands. It may therefore well be 

 expected to occur here. 



Order LVI. OROBANCHACEiE, Vent. 



" Calyx variously divided, persistent. Corolla irregular, per- 

 sistent, with an imbricated sestivation. Stamens 4, didynamous. 

 Anthers 3-celled, the cells distiuct, parallel, often mucronate. 

 Ovary in a fleshy disk, 1-celled, with 2 — 4 parietal many-seeded 

 receptacles. Style 1. Stigma 2-lohed. Ca^swJe 2-valved. Seeds 

 very minute. Embryo at the apex of a fleshy albumen. — Herba- 

 ceous, dingy-coloured, someivhat succulent, leafless plants, glandu- 

 lar and scaly, generally parasitical on the roots of other plants." — 

 Br,Fl. 



I. Obobanche, Linn. 



" Calyx of 2 lateral, often combined and bifid segments, brae- 

 teated. Corolla ringent, 4 — 5 cleft. A gland is at the base of the 

 germen beneath. — Leafless, brown or purplish, herbaceous, scaly 

 plants, often attached to the roots of other 'plants." — Br. Fl. 



* Bracts solitary under each flower. 



1. 0. rapum, Thuill. Greater Broom-rape. Stem simple, 

 corolla tubular campanulate nearly straight, its upper lip undi- 

 vided, lower lip in 3 nearly equal segments of which the 2 lateral 

 ones are subacute the central one larger and more obtuse, sta- 

 mens glabrous, style downy, germen surrounded at the base by a 



