OROBANCHE. 
when frefh. It has, ous the three a hea of the — 
kp obtufe, and much more frin inged and curled. The germen 
is entirely fmeoth, which i in O. major is ha 
ceived Swifs {pecimens which ve this to be Haller’s 
A. 2 That author defcribes a variety with a denfe coni- 
cal {pike, a very fhort fower, and very prominent fyle, of 
which he had feen a drawing only. wus had a 
peci 
men aes Pom asin which anfwers exatly to this icleep: 
really 2 be a variety of our caryophyllaceas 
% agree, 
of S Morkisaicn, which is eee our halle ar 
3. O. fatida. Foetid Broom De sig Atlant. 
- 144. Willd. n. r@; Vahl. 
mb. v. 2. 70. OQ. flore {peciofo Sabriato ruberrimo ; 
Spec. n. 452-)—Stem fi orolla fomewhat 
u — in wild as well as cultivated Porand | in 
Barbary, in the {prin cimen fro = 
fontaines. is t nder in habit than either 
fle 
of the former, with a long cylindrical ieee The calyx- 
leaves are {plit into two deep, long, narrow, unequ ual 
fegments. Corolla dark purple ; 3 its upper Lp in two, and 
lower in three, all ail equal rounded lobes, tharply 
toothed at the edge. mens hairy at the very bafe and 
fummit only, otherwife fmooth, Style, and top of the sr 
men, beSprinkled with hairs. e flowers are faid to 
foetid, but, according to “Vahl, this circumftance is va- 
ia 
. O. rubra. Red Fragrant Broom-rape. Sm. Engl 
Bot. t. 1786.—Stem fimple. Corolla tubular, fringed ; its 
upper lip cloven; lower in three nearly equal fegments. 
Stamens fringed on one fide: at the bafe; germen and ftyle 
at their f{ummits. spa ee undivided.—-Difcovered by 
John ‘Templeton, efq. a acute and obferving botanift, 
growing plentifully on she: eee rock at Cave-hill, near 
same in Augulft 1805. roots creep, = do not ap- 
ar to be “Faat big to oe ot any other 
ot red, fig! 
face ree Crolly se a hoi or pink. 
8 ae n to the laft, but the fegments of the 
upper “ip are confdevably larger than thofe of the lower ; 
abo 
undivided ed. diftinguifh in {pecies sae all the 
oregoi 
ie carulefcens. eae Sg oa Willd. n. 4.— 
Corolla tubu Bracteas the length of = 
: calyx-leaves, with w 
poh Nae of 
it w 
owny, sa as are alfo 
its feales or eaves. Spike denfe, three ge long, white in 
onfequ long fnowy r the 
the cove 
bradcas and calyx, “nen the ¢ eine are e blaciPh, BraGeas 
- feales of the ftem, 2s well a 
— with a taper point oo to the flowers. Calyx-deaves 
o deep, unequal, awl-fhaped fegments, almoft as long 
as ee ube of the corolla, ak is not inflated. Stamens 
and at pe {mooth 
comofa. Tufted henna —Stem fimple. Co- 
voll, inflated. Bracteas hairy ; er ones Br ievh ~ 
ovate; the upper elongated jad taper: potted, Stamens 
and ftyle fmooth. We have received this from our learned 
friend Mr. Schmaltz of Palermo, by thename of OQ. rubra 
but it 1s different from what we have defcribed above aide 
that appellation, the calyxz-leaves being deeply divided. 
s the lower braGeas, are remark. 
o diftinguith it from the laft ; the lower fp is in three very 
soa. broad lobes, conne&ed by elevated plait 
7. O. elatior. Broom-rape. Sutton Tr. of Linn, 
Soc. v.4 178. t me oe Fl. Brit. n. 2, Engl. Bot. t. 
Willd. n. 5. ( ; Sibth. Oxon. igi, a 
Profeffor Walliams.’ ad ace fimple. Corolla tubular ; ce 
fegments of its lower lip equal and acute. 
Its roots moftly adhere to thofe of Trifo- 
The Powers are more 
Leffler Broom-rape. Sm. Fl. Brit. n. 3- 
Eng]. Bot. t. 422. Sutton Tr. of Linn. "Soc. v. 41 
Willd. n. 7. (OQ. major; Loefl. Hifp. 151. O. flore minore 
Bauh. Hilt. v. 2. 781. Dill. in Raii Syn. *288. Tourn. 
Init. 176.)—Stem fimple. Corolla tubular; the middle 
ni leat of its lower lip lobed. Stamens fringed. Style 
ooth. —Abundant in fields of clover i in Britain, on Bere 
tropa \ 
at aie White Broom-rape. Willd. apa 
mpl "Corolla tubular, toothed; its lewer lip in ree 
rounded, nearly equal fegments.. Stamens flig nged 
tly fei 
alyx-leaves  undini ed, 
combined. —Native of Siberia, . near the Cafpia' Stem 
