OrobAnche major. Common 



OROBANCHE Lin. Gen. Ph Didynamia AngioSpermia. 



Cal. bifldus. Cor. ringens. Caps, unilocularis, bivalvis, polyfpernia, 

 Glundula Tub bafi germiais. 



Rail Syn.Gen. 18. Herb^e fructu sicco singulari flore monopetalo. 



OROBANCHE major caule fimpliciffimo pilbefcente, ftaminibus fubexfertis. Lin. Syfi. Vegetal, p. 497= 



Spec. PL p. 882. Fl. Suec. n. 561. 



OROBANCHE caule fimplici, ftipula unica, calyce quadrifido. Haller. Hi/I. 295. 



OROBANCHE major. Scopoli Fl. Cam. 11:782. 



OROBANCHE major Garyophyllum dlens. BauB. fin. 87. 



RAPUM Gcniftse Ger. ema'c. 1 3 1 1 . Parkin/. 229. Rail Syn. p. *2 88. Brpom-rape. Hudfion. Ft. Angh 



ed. 2. p. 266. IJghtfoot Flor. Scot. p. 332. 



RADIX Spartii fcoparii radicibus plerumque adriafcitur. | ROOT generally grows to the roots of the common 



I Broom. 



CAUL1S pedalis ad fefquipedalem, ere&us, firriplex, fif- % STALK from a foot to a foot and a half in height, up- 

 tulofus, teretiufculus, fulcato-ftriatus, villo- | right, fimp'le, hollow, roundifh, fomewhat 



fus, purpurafcens, fquamis fparfis, marcidis, f channeled, villous, of a purplifh colour, co- 



tedtus, ad bafin bulbofus, bulbo fquamofo. | vered with withered fquama?, bulbous at bot- 



| torn, the bulb fquamous. 



FLORES fpicati, fefliles, purpurafcentes plerumque, all- | FLOWERS growing in fpikes, feffile, for the moft part 

 quando etiam flavefcentes, fpica primo acuta, y purplifh, fometimes alfo yellowifh, the fpike 



dein fubcylindrica. % is at fir ft pointed, and then becomes cylin- 



| drical; 



CALYX: Perianthium monophyllum, erectum, t CALYX : a PerIanthium of one leaf,- upright, di- 

 quadrifidum, poftice ad bafin ufque divifum, et | vide'd into four fegments, pofteriorly quite 



antice magis profunde quam ad latera, villo- 1 down to the bafe, and anteriorly more deeply 



fum, albefcens, laciniis feu dentibus fubrequa- 1 that at the fides ; villous, whitifh, the feg- 



libus, ferrugineis. jig. 1. \ ments or teeth nearly equal, and ferruginous. 



I fig- T> 



COROLLA: monopetala, ringens, plerumque purpu- | COROLLA monopetalous, ringent, generally purphfn, 

 rafcens, ad ferrugineum colorem accedens, per- \ approaching to the colour of rufty iron ; tube 



fiftens; tubus inclinatus, amplus, ventricofus ; | bending downward, large, bellying out ; mouth 



faux hians ; labium juperius concavum, obfolete % g a P 1D g > upper-lip hollow, obfoletely trifid, 



trifidum, fubcarinatum, externe vifcidum ; la- | fomewhat keeled, and externally vifcid ; the 



bium inferius trifidum, lacinula media produc- 1 lower lip trifid and hollow, the middle feg- 



tiore, concava. fig. 2. | ment the longeft. jig. 2. 



STAMINA: Filamenta quatuor, fubulata, alba, fub \ STAMINA : four Filaments, tapering, white, hid 

 labio fuperiore recondita, quorum duo longiora ; % under the upper lip, two of which are longer 



Anthers leviter cohaerentes, ftramineai, di- 1 than the reft; Anthers flightly cohering, 



dyma?, ovatas, mucronibus terminate, jig. 3.! of a flraw colour, double, ovate, each cavity 



I terminating in a point, jig. 3. 



PISTILLUM: Germen oblongum, bafi antice tribus f PISTILLUM : Germen oblong, marked anteriorly at 

 glandulis, protuberantibus, flavis, melleum li- 1 the bafe with three protuberant yellow glands, 



quorem copiofe fundentibus, notatum ; Stylus ■% which pour forth plentifully a fweet liquor ; 



pubefcens, ftaminibus paulo longior, purpuraf- I Style downy, a little longer than the fta- 



cens, apice inflexus ; Stigma femibifidum, | mina, purplifh, bent down at top; Stigma 



obtufum, craffiufculum, flavum. jig. 4... half-divided, obtufe, thickifh, and yellow. 



\ . fig. A. 



PERICARPIUM : Capsula ovato-oblonga, acuminata, % SEED-VESSEL an ovate, oblong capjule, terminating in 

 unilocularis, bivalvis. fig. 5. | "a point, of one cavity and two valves, fig. 5. 



SEMINA numerofa, minima; receptacula quatuor, \\-% SEEDS numerous and very fmall; receptacles four, li- 

 nearia, lateralia, adnata, fig. 6, 7. | near, growing to the fides of the capfule. 



% fig- 6, 7- 



The literal Englifh tranflation of the Greek word Orobancbe is Strangle-tare* : this term has been given by* 

 Dioscorides to one plant, and by Theophrastus to another ; ours is undoubtedly the Orobancbe of Dioscorides, 

 (as it accords with his defcriptionf), and alfo of Pliny. The Orobancbe of Theophrastus muft have been lome 



* OPOBArXH, Ervangina Gaza, quod opotov olyx^h ervumjlranguht, dicitur, 



f u Orobariche cauliculus eft fefquipedalis, et interdum major, fubruber, hirfutus, tener, fine folio, pinguis : flore fubalbido, aut in luteum. 

 " vergente : radice digiti crafiitudine, et cum ariditate flaccefcit caulis, fiitulofa. Hanc inter qusedam legurnina nafci conftar, ec ea ftrangul<sre, 

 " undc Orobanche fibi cognomentum ufurpavit. Eftur, ut olus, cruda, et in pauuis, afparsgi modo, decofta. Legumentis addita, concoiiio- 

 ** nem accelerare creditur." Mattk. ex Diofc. 



climbing 



