OROBAN CHE. 
are — with a few glandular marginal hairs. Ger- 
n{mooth. Style {moorh, clothed with Sees hairs in 
Willd. We 
m Slender-ftalked Broom-rape. Sm. Tr. 
of 4. 172. Willd. n.g—Stem fimple. Co- 
rolla inflated ; its lower lip very fhort, the fegments inverfely 
heart- fhaped, unequal, crifped and jagged. Stamens and 
ftyle loofely hairy, _prominent.—Gathered by the writer of 
this, in July 1787, in hilly paftures at St. Orfefe near Genoa. 
Dr. Noehden found the fame high on the rapes a 
is of a more Bayer habit rie rath =) bove, an 
from one tot t high. large inflated corolla, ad 
fhort lower lip, effentially anftingnith j it from O. minor, as w i 
as the hairy /fy/e, and greater length of the /lamens. 
do not recolle& the plant's having when frefh any eile: 
{m i 
— 
O. cernua. Drooping-flowered Broom-rape. Linn 
Sp. BL 882. Toefl. Hifp. 152, erage J the fynonyms.— 
Stem fimple. Corolla tubular, ownward ; its upper 
z 
3 
ct 
at Aranjuez in ain, i Spike 
lax, of about a dozen {mooth pale flowers, with a purple 
limb, remarkable for t rong curvature in t tube, 
by which the uth is turned directly downwards. The 
radeas are d ly 
of the upper ufually cloven. Stamens and /Pyle frongly in in- 
eae: Can this be the 0. media, Desfont. Atlant. 
ae 
American Broom-rape. 
O. americana. Linn. Man 
mfimple. Scales imbricated, Tagan 
lip v 
88. Willd. n. 10.—Stem 
Corolla tubular, bent downward ; its upper vaulted = 
lower in three equal oblong fegments. Stamens and ftyle 
incurved, very fmocth. Calyx fimple—Sent by the la 
Dr. Garden, from South Carolina. The whole plant is re- 
markably {mooth, yellow, .a fpan high. ee ct i im- 
bricated, polifhed, pale, ovate. Spike de of numerous 
flowers, {maller than any of the ie oe rd deflexed as 
in the laft. Braédeas lanceclate, pale and {mooth like the 
{cales of the ftem. one leaf, melee ti 
13. Virginian Broom n. Sp. 
Pl. 882. n 11. (O, minor virginiana lignolon, a 
oun rae floribus minoribus onufta ; Morif, 
fect. 12. t. 16. f.9.)—Stem branched. Corolla asia 
its lower ip in three equal acute fegments. Calyx fimple, 
four-toothed. Capfule globofe.—Gathered by Bannifter 
and Kalm in Virginia. This is widely different from all the 
foregoing, in its flender much-branched /fem, and {mall, 
racemofe, numerous, rather diltant flowers. The bration 
are {mall and ovate, about as long as each partial flower- 
fralk. Calyx hemif areas with fourteeth. Corolla flender, 
fomewhat incurved, ut half an inch long ; its /ips {mall, 
Siyk prominent, with a capitate, 
The flamens we have no opportunity 
purpurea. Purple Cape Broom-rape. Linn. 
ree 288. Willd. n.6.—Stem fimple, racemofe. Corolla 
tubular ; its limb in four rounded equal fegments. Caly 
firmly elfewhere. The plant isa foot high, nearly — 
downy, purple, turning black in drying. Corolla an in 
and a half long, curved, taper at the bafe. Flower; ‘al 
about as a as the corolla, a an oblong éradea at the 
bafe of eac 
** Braéteas three together. 
15. O. caerulea. Purple eae Broom- . 
Dauph. v. 2. 406. Sm. Fi. Brit. n.4. Engl 
Sutton Tr. of Linn. Soe: Ve 4. i : 
purea ; Jacq. Auftr. t. 276. O. Gmel. Sib. v. 3. t. 46. f. 1 
n. 2943 - 
Nove rs 
grafly paftures near the fea, at Montpellier, as. well as in 
Hampfhire and Norfolk, It is 
ee, 
Ca x tubule oA aie set the leaves being united; 
their lobes in t early equa aped fegments. Co- 
rolla palith ine bed. bale much longer than the 
braGteas ; its upper lip peg more or lefs deeply two- 
lobed, with a notc he 1 
erhaps 1 
{carcely poflible oak this or any Orobanche fhould have been 
Q 
=m 
c. 
< 
Bs 
oO 
Pu 
5 
eo 
al 
o 
aQ 
Te of Linn. Soc. v. 4. 164. The reader may alfo confult 
m. Fl. Brit. 927. 
16. O. ramofa. Branched oe Linn. § 
882. Sm. Fl. Brit.n. 5. Engl. Bor. t. 184. Sutton Tr. 
of Linn. Soc. v. 4. 185. Willd. n.17. Ger. em. 1312. 
(O. n. 296; Hall. Hit. v. r. 130. O. Camer. Epit. 341. 
—Stem branched. Bracteas ternate. Upper lip of the co- 
mp, to 
parts of Europe, flowerin 
This is more nearly allied to the laft, and to Q. eas than, 
any other. With caerulea it agrees in having a pair of in- 
ternal brabde, but the fem, being invariably more or lefs 
b ranched, except occafionally perhaps in.a very poor ftarved 
fpecimen, diftinguifhes it from all except the virginiana, 
and with that it has few characters in common befides. — 
enya is of a brighter purple hue in its flowers than 
other Britifh Orobanche, and in Greece the colour is fill 
more vivid, and the plant very beautiful as well as luxuriant. 
The fegments of the corolla are more equal and rounded 
than in cerulea, nor are there any intermediate ade aoe 
