56. OHOBANCHACE^. 
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downy, glandular, viscid, fetid. FI. sometimes without dark veins. 
— Waste places, preferring a calcareous soil. A. or B. — "VTI. 
E. S. I. 
Ltc'ittm Linn. 
[*L. har'bariim (L.) ; 1. narrowh' lanceolate nan'owed at the 
base, cal. 2-lipped, cor. -tube equalling the limb, berry oblong. 
— A straggling shrub with long pendulous spinous branches. Fl. 
bluish. Filaments woolly at the base. Berry reddish. — Hedges. 
sh. \t:.— \Tri.] E. 
4. Datu'ra Linn. Thorn-apple. 
[•1. D. Stramonium (h.) ; 1. ovate imequally sinuate-dentate 
flabrous, caps, erect spinose. — E.B. 1288. — St. 1 — 2 ft. high. 
"1. white, large, erect. Fr. densely spinose. Caps, with 4 dis- 
sepiments below, only 2 at the top. — Waste groimd, rare. 
A. Yl. vn.] E. 
Order LYI. OROBANCHACKi:. 
■ Cal. vaiiously divided, persistent. Cor. irregular, usually 
2-lipped, persistent, imbricate in the bud. Stam. on the cor., 4, 
didj-namous. Anth. 2-ceUed ; cells distinct, parallel. Ovaiy in 
a fleshy disk, 1-ceUed, with 2 or more parietal placentas. Stigma 
2-lobed. Fr. capsular, 2-valved, with many minute seeds. 
1. Orobanche. Cal. 4-cleft or of 2 usually bifid sepals. 
Cor. ringent, 4 — 5-cleft, deciduous, its base persistent. 
Bracts 1— 3.— G. F. G. Gam. i. 49, 50. 
2. Lathb.S!a. Cor. 2-lipped, the upper lip concave, deciduous, 
entire. Otherwise like Orohanche. — G. F. G. Gam. i. 51, 
1. Oeoban'che Linn. Broom-rape. 
* Sepals 2, entire or hijid, separate or connected hehw in front. 
Bract 1. Valves of caps, cohering at each end. 
1, 0. JRdpum (Thuill.) ; sep. 2-veined equally bifid nearly equal- 
ling the cor.-tube, cor. beUshaped ventricose at the base in front, 
its back curved, lips wa'VT 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 their upper part and the style 
glandular-pubescent.— B. 421. B. L f. 900 & 92.3. O. major 
(L.) Sm., but Fries states that that syn. belongs to 0. elatior. — 
Stig. of 2 distant yelloxo lobes. Anth. white when dry. — Para- 
sitical upon Broom, Furze, and other shrubby leguminous plants. 
P. v.— VII. E. S. I. 
