190 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
generally exserted, glabrous ; stigma 2-lobed, purple. Capsule ovate, 
acuminate, compressed. Plant brittle, fleshy, nearly glabrous. 
Toothicori 
French, Clandestine jZcailleuse. German, Gemeine Schuppenwurz. 
The common name of this plant was given to it from a supposed resemblance of 
the scaly roots to a human tooth. 
GENUS II— O ROBANCHE. Linn. 
Calyx of 2 entire or cleft sepals more or less connected below, 
or irregularly 5-partite or tootbed. Corolla irregular, marcescent, at 
lengtb splitting circumscissily and sub-deciduous; tube cylindrical 
or bellsbaped, generally arched ; limb bilabiate and ringent ; the 
upper lip erect, 2-lobed or 2-cleft ; the lower one spreading, 3-cleffc. 
Stamens 4, didynamous, inserted in the tube of the corolla, included ; 
filaments flattened at the base ; anthers 2-celled, the cells divari- 
cate at the base, mucronate. Style simple, curved at the apex ; 
stigma bi-globular, the lobes right and left. Capsule ovoid-conical, 
1-celled, more or less distinctly 2-valved, with 4 narrow placentas 
approximating in pairs on each valve. Seeds very numerous, minute, 
with a spongy testa. 
Glandular-hairy fleshy herbs without green leaves, parasitical 
on the roots of various dicotyledonous plants ; the base of the stem 
(which is often swollen) directly attached to the roots of the plant 
on which it is parasitic 
The name of this genus of plants comes from opoftoc (orobos), pulse, and ayxetv 
(ancheiri), to strangle, owing to its supposed power of destroying the plant on which it 
grows. 
Sub-Genus I.— PIIELIP/EA. Tourncf. C. A. Mey. 
Flowers each with 3 bracts, 1 beneath and 1 on each side. 
Calyx of 4 lobes united at the base, or united except along the top, 
rarely of 5 lobes. Stem slightly branched or simple. 
SPECIES I— OROBANCHE RAMOSA. Linn. 
Plate MYII. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCCLXXI1I. 
BUlot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. GO. 
Phelipsea ramosa, C. A. Mey. Renter, in D. C Trod. Vol. XI. p. 8. Gr. & Godr. Fl. 
de Fr. Vol. II. p. G27. Reich. JU. 1. c p. 88. 
