Orobcmche.] orobanchace^e. 367 



miDor, in a dense spike sometimes of a foot in length, very numerous, in all my 

 specimens from the above locality of a very pale colour, when quite fresh of a 

 cream-colour or nearly milk-white * with more or less suffusion of dilute bluish 

 purple, and pale purple or bluish veins, in the topmost unopened part of the spike, 

 showing in the aggregate of a sulphur-yellow. Bracts solitary beneath each 

 flower, lanceolate, taper-pointed, many-ribbed, glabrous above, hairy beneath, and 

 fringed with brown, tapering, mostly recurved points about as long as or rather 

 longer than the flowers (in 0. minor considerably shorter than the flower ?). 

 Calyx about as long as the corolla, whitish, hairy without, glabrous within ; sepals 

 ovate, sometimes entire and undivided, or with a tooth or two at the sides and 

 single-nerved ; often one or both sepals bifid, with several (usually very indistinct) 

 nerves; in either case each sepal is gradually attenuated into.a long, tapering, 

 brownish, very slender point, and is quite distinct or separate from its fellow to 

 the very base, not soldered or united for any part of their length. Corolla about 

 fths of an inch in length, tubular, laterally compressed so as to form an obtuse 

 angled triangle in section, of which the back is the apex slightly arched or curved 

 at both ends, certainly less so than in the fresh specimens of 0. minor before me, 

 as Mr. Babington observes, and the flowers appear to be decidedly and consider- 

 ably larger ; glanduloso-pubescent all over externally, within glabrous, yellowish 

 white or cream-colour, or often nearly milk-white, mostly with a faint suffusion of 

 dilute purplish blue, more conspicuous along the ribs on the anterior part of the 

 tube, the limb 2-lipped, the lips minutely eroso-denticulate, wavy, crisped and 

 plaited ; upper lip pon-ected, nearly semicircular, entire, but folded anteriorly in 

 the centre so as to give the appearance of being 2-lobed, with a notch or sinus 

 between the lobes, and which does often really exist, as it appears to myself; 

 lower lip in 3 roundish spreading lobes, of which the middle one is somewhat 

 elongated and occasionally exceeding the 2 lateral, that are short and nearly orbi- 

 cular, all 3 strongly crisped, wavy and erose, deeply plaited in the middle at their 

 base, the central lobe especially, which terminates behind in two palatal protube- 

 rances, as in the personate genera of ScrophulariacesB, &c. Stamens adnate with 

 the tube of the corolla for some considerable part of its length, very villous in 

 front in the united portion, and from thence to some distance upwards on the free 

 part ; their superior half and the whole of their exterior side glabrous, certainly 

 not in the British plant scabrous above, as represented by Koch and Godron ; 

 anthers dilute purple in the bud, afterwards fuscous, the lobes strongly apiculate. 

 Ovary oblong, conical, slightly hairy at its summit in front, with a bright yellow, 

 tumid and glandulose spot anteriorly at base. Style about as long as the ovary, 

 stout, cylindrical, purplish, hairy mostly in front along its whole length into the 

 top of the ovary, and all around towards the much decurved summit (quite gla- 

 brous according to Bertolonif), which is deeply cleft into 2 diverging, globose, 

 scabrous lobes (stigma), of a brownish red or sometimes violet-colour. 



** Bracts 3 under each flower. 



5. O. ceerulea, Vills. Purple Broom-rape. " Stem simple, 

 calyx witli 5 lanceolate aciite teeth shorter than the tube of the 

 corolla, corolla tubular curved in front, middle of the tube com- 

 pressed, upper lip of the corolla cloven, lobes of the lip acute with 

 reflexed margins, anthers glabrous, style glandular downy." — Br. 

 Fl. p. 387. E. B. t. 423. Sutton in Trans, of Linn. Sac. iv. p. 

 182. 



* The flowers of O. minor are occasionally white, as well as in this supposed 

 species, 

 f " Stylus quoque glaberrimus," Fl. Ital. vi. p. 439. 



