192 ENGLISH" BOTANY. 
Stem simple, very rarely branched. Flowers ascending, in a 
rather lax spike. Lowest bract of each flower lanceolate, a little 
longer than the calyx ; lateral ones smaller, lanceolate-subulate. 
Calyx with 4 lanceolate acuminate segments, shorter than the 
tube of the corolla ; the upper side generally closed by a small 
fifth tooth ; each segment with a strong mid-vein. Corolla-tube 
nearly straight, very slightly curved at the apex, where the tube 
is much dilated ; upper lip 2-lobed, with the lobes retuse and 
apiculate ; lower lip 3-lobed, with the lobes oblong, sub-obtuse. 
Stamens inserted a little below the contraction in the corolla- 
tube ; filaments sub-glabrous ; anthers hairy at the sutures. 
" Stigma yellow " (Coss. & Germ.). 
Parasitical on Artemisia campestris, on the Continent. On 
" Achilkea Millefolium ? Alderney " (Bab.). 
Channel Islands. Perennial. Summer. 
Stem 4 to 16 inches high, white or tinged with blue, very 
tough and somewhat woody. Flowers 1 to 1^ inch long, " bluish- 
violet, veined " (Coss. & Germ.). Capsule ovoid. Plant glandular 
pubeseent. 
Of this I have seen only Continental specimens ; and as dried 
specimens are useless for drawing from, our plate is copied from 
Pteichenbach, Icones PL Crit. Vol. VII. Figs. 929, 930. 
Sand Broom-rape. 
French, Orobanche ties Sables. German, Sand Sommerwurz. 
SPECIES III.— O ROBANCHE C^IRULEA. Fill. 
Plate MIX. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCCLXX. 
Phelipsea cserulea, C. A. Mey. Renter, in D. C. Prod. Vol. XL p. 5. Gr. & Godr. Fl. 
Ue Fr. Vol. II. p. 624. Reich fil. 1. c. p. 87. 
Stem simple, very rarely branched. Flowers ascending, in a 
rather dense spike. Lowest bract of each flower lanceolate, a 
little shorter than the calyx ; lateral ones smaller, lanceolate- 
subulate. Calyx with 4 lanceolate acuminate segments, shorter 
than the tube of the corolla ; the upper side generally closed by 
a small fifth tooth ; each segment with a strong mid-vein. Corolla- 
tube slightly curved in the apical half, slightly enlarged towards 
the apex ; upper lip 2-lobed, with the lobes acute ; lower lip 
3-lobed, with the lobes ovate, subacute. Stamens inserted a little 
