p. 519. — Lindl. Syn. p. 176.— Hook. Brit. FI. p. 186. — LiglUf. FI, Scot. v. i, p. 
214.— Sibth. FI. Oxon, p. 136.— Abb. FI. Bedf. p. 92.— Kelli. FI. Cant. (3rd edit. ) 
p. 171.— Purt. Midi. FI. v. iii. p. 36.— Hook. FI. Scot. p. 125.— Winch’s FI. of 
Northumb. and Durham, p. 27. — Walker’s FI. of Oxf. p. 117. — Bab. FI. Bath. p. 
30. — Mack. Catal. of PI. of Irel. p. 39. ; FI. Hibern. p. 184. — Hypipitys lutea, 
Ray’s Syn. p. 317. — Blaekst. Spec. Bot. p. 39. — Gray’s Nat. Arr. v. ii. p. 404. — 
Hypopitys Europeg' a, Don’s Gen. Syst. of Gard. and Bot. v. iii. p. 886. — Oro- 
bunche verbascali odore, Plot’s Nat. Hist, of Oxf. p. 146. t. 9. f. 6. 
Localities. — In woods of beech and fir, on a dry soil ; not uncommon. — 
Oxfordsh. In Stokenchurch Woods. Woods between Netllebed and Henley: 
Hr. Sibthorp. In the Beech Walk at Mongewell ; and also in Mongewell 
Woods; 1837: Mr. W. VVji.lis, Engraver, Wallingford, Berks. Beech Woods 
between Henley andGreat Marlow: N. J. Winch, Esq. — Berks ; In the woods 
at Park Place: Dr. Noeheden. Woods and Plantations near Buckland : Mr. 
John Reddv. Near the path, upper side of Bisham Wood: Mr. W. Hurst. 
In a wood at Baseldon House: Mr. E. Foster, jun. — Beds. Hostler's Wood, 
near Market Street: J. Sibley, Esq. — Bucks ; In Marlow Wood, in abundance : 
Mr. Gotobf.b. Common in this county : Hudson. — Cambridgesh. Madingley 
Plantations: Rev. R. Relhan.— Gloucestersh. W'oods near Uley : Mr. Baker. 
Leigh Wood, Bristol: Mr. Dyer. Slade Woods: G. W. Sandys, Esq. Upper 
Slaughter, Stow-on-the-Wold, Cranham Woods, &c.: E. F. Witts, Esq. — 
Hampsh. In Selborne Hanger under the shady beeches, to whose roots it seems 
to be parasitical ; at the N. W. end of the Hanger: White’s Selborne. Mr. W. 
Pamplin, jun. observed it in the same place, in May, 1836. In Halt Wood: 
Dr. Pdlteney. By the footway through the under-cliff from Luccombe to Bon- 
church: Mr. J. Woods, jun. — Hertfordsh. NearTring: Mr. Doody, in Ray's 
Syn. ; and Mr. W. Pa.mpi.in, jun. — Kent ; Stowting, at the foot of Ashes and 
Alders: Sir W. J. Hooker. Woods near Cobham : Mr. W. Pamplin, jun. 
Wood near Maidstone : Mr. Jarvis. — Lincolnsh. Close to Summer Castle, in 
Fir Woods: Rev. J. Dalton. — Norfolk; In a Fir Wood at Shotisham, near 
Stoke: Mr. Crow. — Notts; Oak Plantations near Ollerton : N. B. G. — Somer- 
setsh. In Fir Plantations at the top of Widcombe Hill : Dr. Davis. — Stqffordsh. 
Lord Stamford’s Woods at Enville : Dr. Withering. — Suffolk ; Bungay, found 
only in one station : N. B. G. — Surrey ; About Box Hill : Air. Graves. Alickle- 
ham : Mr. W. Christy. Coulsdon : Mr. E. Wood, in N. B. G. — Sussex ; St. 
Leonard’s and Charlton Forests; Eastclean, towards Houghton Beech Woods: 
Bot. Sits. — Wilts; Clarendon Wood, near Salisbury: Dr. AIaton — Worces- 
tersh. Shrawley Wood: Mis. Gardner. — Yorksh. Wood near Everton : Mr. 
Salt.— In SCOTLAND, and IRELAND, but rare. 
Perennial. — Flowers in June and July. 
Root fibrous, branched, and somewhat creeping, often adhering 
to the roots of trees, under which it grows, but it is uncertain whe- 
ther it is parasitical. Stem, from 5 to 9 inches high, upright, mostly 
solitary, simple, round, smooth and shining, having no leaves , but 
instead of them numerous egg-shaped scales, of the same dingy 
yellow-colour as the stem. Flowers the same colour as the rest of 
the plant, on short, scaly, or bracteated peduncles, in a kind of 
raceme or cluster at the top of the stem, at first drooping, then up- 
right. Cedyx smooth, the sepals slightly ciliated at the edge. 
Stamens alternately smaller, often hairy. Germen roundish, 4- or 
5-lobed. Stigma large, peltate. Seeds very minute, rarely per- 
fected, enveloped in a reticulated arillus. 
The whole plant is succulent, and of a pale yellow, or brownish-yellow colour, 
which peculiarity is generally confined to parasitic plants, or such as grow in very 
shady situations. It turns quite black in drying, and exhales, during that process, 
an agreeable musky scent. It is a native of many other parts of Europe besides 
Britain ; as Sweden, Denmark, France, Italy, &c. It is also found in N. America, 
from Canada to Pennsylvania, at the roots of beech and other trees, in shady moist 
places. Linn.eus informs us, in his Flora Suecica, that in Sweden it i9 given 
dry to sheep that are effected with a cough. 
