:248 50. OEOBANCHACE^. 



Stj. E. B. 936. St. 3. 4.— St. 1—2 ft. high. Fl. hn-id yellow 

 with dark Yeins, drooping. Fr. erect. Whole herbage downy- 

 glandular, viscid, fetid. Fl. sometimes without dark veins. — 

 Waste places, preferring a calcareous soil. B. V. — VII. E. S. I, 



Lyc'itjm Linn. 



\*L. bar'harum (L.) ; 1. narrowly lanceolate narrowed at the 

 base, cal. 2.-lipped, cor. -tube as long as the limb, berry oblong. 

 — St/. E. B. 933. — A straggling shrub with long pendulous 

 spinous branches. Fl. bluish. Filaments wooUy at the base. 

 Berry red. — An A&icaa plant established in hedges. Sh. YI. 

 — VIII.] E, 



4. Dattt'ea Linn. Thorn-apple, 



[*1. I). Stramdnium (L.) ; 1. ovate imequally sinuate-dentate 

 glabrous, caps, erect spiiiose. — E. B. 1288. — St. 1 — 2" ft. high. 

 Fl. white (purplish in D. Tatttla), large, erect. Fr. densely 

 spinose. Caps, with 4 dissepiments below, only 2 at the top-. 

 — Waste ground, rare. A. vl. VII.] E. 



Order INl. OEOBANCHACE^iE. 



Cal. variously di-nded, persistent. Cor. irregular, usually 

 2-lipped, persistent, imbricate in the bud. Stam. on the cor., 4, 

 didynamous. Anth. 2-celled ; cells distinct, parallel. Ovary in 

 a fleshy disk, 1-ceUed, with 3 or more parietal placentas. Stigma 

 2-lohed. Fr. capsular, 2-valved, with many minute seeds. — 

 Leafless root-parasites. 



1. Obobancbcb. Cal. 4-cleft or of 2 usually bifid sepals. 

 Cor. ringent, 4 — 5-cleft, deciduous, its base persistent. 

 Bracts 1 — 8. 



2. Lathe^a. Cor. 2-lipped ; the upper lip concave, decidu- 

 ous, entire ; its base persistent. Otherwise like Orobmiche. 



1. Oeoban'che Linn. Broom-rape. 



* Sepals 2, entire or bifid, separate or cmmected below in frmit. 

 Bract 1. Valves of caps, cohering at each end. 



1. O. Rdpu7n (Thuill.); sep.2-veined equally bifid nearly equal- 

 ling the cor. -tube, cor. bellshaped ventricose at the base in front, 

 its back curved, lips wavy obscurely denticulate (not fringed), 

 upper lip concave nearly entire its sides patent, middle lobe of 

 lower lip much longer than lateral lobes, stam. inserted at the 

 base of the cor. glabrous below but their upper part and the style 



