Lathrcea.] oeobanchace^. 369 



yellowish, in my specimens quite glabrous (sometimes a little haiiy, Koch and 

 Bah), the cells mucronate at the base. Style slightly incurved, compressed late- 

 rally, white or bluish, glanduloso-pilose its entire length, deciduous; stigma waxy 

 white, deeply 2-lobed, the lobes divaricate, snbglobose or somelimes flattened, 

 minutely glandulnse. Germen ovato-ohlong, waxy white, shining and glabrous 

 except at the summit, 2- or faintly 4-lobed, without any tumid ring or gland at 

 the base. Capsules brown, ovate or elliplical-oblong, mostly with 4 deep furrows 

 (hence 4-lobed), the 2 lateral furrows sometimes obsolete ; a little shining, some- 

 times downy, opening at the apex chiefly in the line of the anterior suture. Seeds 

 numerous, very slightly pellucid, blackish, the size of those of O. major, to which 

 they are precisely similar, except in being somewhat pointed for the most pait at 

 one end. 



In one of my specimens I find the terminal flower reduced to a simple, angu- 

 lar, straight and coloured tube, terminating in a flat, fleshy, 6-lobed limb, of a 

 yellowish colour and resembling a siigma. 



Sutton's description of this species in the ' Linnasan Transactions' is excellent, 

 as is that by Koch in the ' Deutschlands Flora.' 



I do not see how this plant can be the O. cierulea of Villars, in which that 

 author expressly tells us the bracts aie solitary, unless perhaps he overlooked the 

 two lateral and inner ones, which are very narrow and much smaller than the mid- 

 dle and outer one. 



II. Lathe^a, Linn. Toothwort. 



" Calyx campanulate, equally 4-cleft. Corolla tubular, 2-lipped : 

 the upper lip concave, entire ; lower 3-cleft. A depressed gland 

 is at the base of the germen. — Plants leafless, coloured." — Br. Fl. 



The genus Lathvaea closely borders on Orobanche, and an American genus of 

 this order, Cimopholis (Orohanuhe) americana, has greatly the habit and aspect 

 of Lathrffia, having, like it, large and pale seeds, not very minute and lilack ones. 



1. L. Squamaria, L. Greater Toothwort. " Stem simple, 

 flowers pendulous in 1 -sided racemes, lower lip of the corolla 

 3-cleft."— Br. Fl. p. 288. E. B. t. 50. 



In damp shady places, woods, groves and shrubberies, amongst dead leaves and 

 vegetable mould about the roots uf the trees ; rather rare. Fl. April, May. 11- 



E. 2Iff<i.— Scattered, though rather sparingly, in Bloodstone copse, near Ashey, 

 at the roots of hazle, 1846. Very abundant in the adjoining Eagle-head copse, 

 revealed by the clearing of the wood, 1846. 



W. Med. — A single specimen gathered in Tolt copse, Gatcombe, 1845. In 

 the Great and High Woods at Swainston, also in another wood near the house of 

 Miss Jane Simeon. In Long copse (the wood beyond the Calaminlha station), 

 Apes Down, Miss Dennett (v. icon, color, prsestantiss.) I have since heard from 

 Mrs. Dennett that it was in very great abundance in Long copse, from whence I 

 saw a fresh specimen, 1848 !! Abundantly under the shrubs about the terraces at 

 North Court, Shorwell, Rev. James Penfold .'.' Little Standen wood ; not uncom- 

 mon in the island : G. Kirkpatric/c, Esq. A single specimen in the wood between 

 Apes Down and Rowledge, Dr. Bell-Salter, 1845. 



A singular parasitic plant, the stem of which is partly subterraneous and fur- 

 nished with closely imbricated leaves of a fleshy texture. Root small, fibrous, 

 attached to the roots of hazle and other trees, as also to the underground stems of 

 ivy, amongst which and decaying leaves it delights to grow. Stem_ branched, 

 creeping under ground, in which part it is clothed with close-set, imbricated, 

 fleshy and scaly leaves, having a great resemblance to the canine or eye-tooth in 

 the human subject, whence the English name. Flowering branches erect, from 

 4 or 5 inches to a foot or upwards in heiRht, pale rose-coloured and finely downy 

 above, whitish and naked towards the base. Flowers in a long nnilaternl spike, 

 flesh-coloured or bluish, nodding, on stalks of about their own length, each with 



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