35 ; Supp. p. *5. ; Prim. FI. Sam. p. 66. — Ivv. Lond. FI. p. 127. — Luxf. Reig. FI. 
p. 56.— Mack. Cat PI. Irel. p. 59. ; F). llibern. p. 206. — Orobdnche major, Loefl. 
It. Hisp. p. 151. — O. barbata, Lam. Diet. v. iv. p. 621. — O. ramosa, 3. Iluds. 
FI. Angl. (2nd cd.) p. 266 ,—O.flore minore, Dill, in Ray’s Syn. p. *288. — Bauh. 
Hist. v. ii. p. 781. 
Localities. — In fields and pastures, growing from the roots of Trifolium 
pratense, plentiful in some paits of Britain. — Oxfordshire ; Woods about 
Ev\ el me ; 1823: Kev. Dr. Lloyd, Lord Bishop of Oxford. Above Headington- 
Wick Copse: Rev. R . Walker, Oxf. FI.— Berks ; In a clover field near 
Buckland; Nov. 1831: Mr. John Reddy. — Cornwall ; About the Lizard : 
N . II. G . — Devon ; I lelds about Alphington and Shillingtord ; fields at Kenton : 
FI Dev. Covering a field near Matford on the Starcross road about half a mile 
from Alphington church : Rev. I I. T. Kllacombe. — Dorset; Among vetches and 
clover in Pimpern field near Blandl'ord: R. G.— Gloucestersh. St. Vincent's 
Rocks; Weston in Gordano: N'. B. G .—Hants; Near Bonchurch, Isle of 
Wight: II. W'oollcombe, Ksq. Ch. Gh. — Kent; Found by Mr. Rand, in a field 
of oats two miles beyond Rochester, on the left hand going towards Horn’s 
Place: Dill, in Ray's Syn. In a sand-pit at Charlton ; and under the Cliffs 
E. of Dover: B. G. in Eastwear Bay ; and upon the Sand-hills, Deal : S. K . — 
Norfolk; Clover-fields and pastures at Sheringham, Weyborn, Eaton, and 
Frettenham: Rev. C. Sutton. Burnham; and near Norwich: N. B. G. — 
Somersctsh. Near the Sham ruin on Combe Down, and not uncommon in 
clover-fields. ( lover-fields at Rudloe and Box ; Woolley : FI. Bath. — Suffolk; 
Plentifully among clover at Raydon Cottage, Oi ford : B.G. Bungay: N.B.G. — 
Surrey ; Near Croydon, Leatherhead, Wandsworth, Coulsdon, Belchworth, 
and in clover-field at Brockham : N. B. G. In the greatest abundance in a large 
clover-field at Morden ; 1833: Mr. W. Pamelin, jttn. — Sussex ; Not uncommon 
in clover-fields: W . Bokker, Esq — Wilts; Frequent in old clover-fields: 
N. B. G. — Yorksh. Dunkirk Wood near Sleninglord ; near Nunwick by Ripon: 
B. G. — WALKS. Brecon; Clover-fields near Oriekhowel : B.G. — Caernar- 
vnns/i. Conway Castle; Diganwy Castle: N. 1>. G. — Munmouthsh. Near 
Abergavenny: N.B.G. — Pembrokesh. lenity: B.G. — IRELAND. Hill of 
Howlh, South side, on steep banks near the sea ; in Sir Robert Staple’s woods. 
Queen’s County; on the ruins ol Mucruss Abbey. Killatney; South Isles of 
Arran ; and plentiful in Ralmerston W oods, and Leixlip, always near the roots 
of Ivy. 
Perennial? — Flowers in July and August. 
Root fibrous, usually adhering to the woody root of Trifolium 
•pratense (t. 283). Stem thickened at the base, from 6 to 12 inches 
high, upright, simple, often wavy, roundish, hairy, almost the thick- 
ness of a goose-quill, flesh-coloured, or sometimes yellow, moder- 
ately scaly. Flowers in spikes, pale yellow with purplish veins, 
hairy, sometimes of a full yellow. Bracteas solitary, simple, spear- 
shaped, hairy, almost as long as the flowers. Calyx-leaves ( sepalsj 
sometimes simple, and sometimes divided. Corolla not at all tu- 
mid ; upper lip rounded and crenulated ; lower lip 3-cleft, with 
equal, rounded, crenulated lobes. Stamens thickly fringed in their 
lower part. Gerrr.en and Style smooth. Stigma purple. 
The whole plant is generally of a purplish cast, though occasionally it is of an 
uniform pale yellow, always turning brown and dry in decay. All the species are 
parasitical, and are probably much alike in quality, viz. astringent and vulnerary. 
Wherever they abound they must be treated by the Agriculturist as the most de- 
structive weeds, which will fatally impoverish any other crop. 
The Natural Order Oroba'nchel consists of dicotyledonous, herbaceous, 
dingy-coloured, somewhat succulent, leafless plants, which are glandular and 
scaly, and generally growing pat asi lica 11 y on the roots of other plants. The calyx 
is inferior, variously divided, and permanent. The corolla is monopetalous, 
irregular, permanent, and imbricated in the bud. 1 he stamens are 4 in number, 
and didynamous. The ovary is superior, in a fleshy disk, 1 -cel led, with 2 or 4 
parietal, manv-seeded receptacles. The style is simple, with a 2-lobed stigma. 
The capsule is 2-valved. The seeds are indefinite, and very minute ; with the 
embryo at the apex of a fleshy albumen. 
'1 he only British genera of this order are, Orobanche, t. 381 ; and Lathreea, 
t. 365. 
