0R0BANCHACE7E. 



601 



7. Branched Broomrape. Orobanche ramosa, Linn. 

 (Fig. 717.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 184.) 



Very much smaller than the blue B., 

 of a pale straw-colour, with smaller pale- 

 blue flowers. Stem often branched, sel- 

 dom above 6 inches high. Flowers 

 shaped like those of the blue B. f and, 

 like them, they have two small lateral 

 bracts besides the larger one ; but the 

 calyx is split at the back, and has only 

 4 lobes, as in the brown Broomrapes. 



On Hemp, Lueern, and some other 

 crops, chiefly in southern Europe, and 

 has been found, though very rarely, in 

 some of the southern and eastern coun- 

 ties of England. FL summer. 



Fig. 717. 



II. LATHRiEA. LATHK^A. 



A single species, closely allied to the Broomrapes, but the flowers 

 more regular, the calyx broadly campanulate or inflated with 4 short 

 broad lobes, and the placentas to which the seeds are attached in the 

 capsule are more fleshy. 



1. Common Lathrsea. Lathrsoa squamaria, Linn. 

 (Fig. 718.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 50. Toothwort.) 



A pale rose-coloured plant, with flesh-coloured or slightly bluish 

 flowers, streaked with purple or dark-red. Hootstock fleshy and 

 creeping, covered with close -set, short, thick, fleshy scales. Flowering 

 stems erect, from 3 or 4 inches to near a foot high, with a few broad, 

 orbicular, much less fleshy scales, passing gradually into the bracts. 



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