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in the counties of Cornwall, Glamorgan, York, Fife, Argyle, Ross, 
and in the Isle of Skye ; also in co. Clare, Galway, Donegal, Deny, 
and Antrim. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer 
and Autumn. 
Stem rather stout, 3 to 9 inches high, with numerous scales 
tinged with purplish-red. Flowers f to J inch long, more or less 
tinged with red. Corolla livid-red, smaller and less enlar 
upwards than in O. Rapum; the upper Lip with much more distinct 
and longer lobes and fewer glandular hairs ; the lower lip more 
distinctly denticulated. 
It is probable that O. rubra is identical with O.Epithymum (D.C.), 
or at the utmost that they are merely distinct as sub-species ; but 
until the two are examined side by side in a recent state, this ques- 
tion cannot be satisfactorily decided. 
I am indebted to Dr. S. Ilea of Belfast for fresh specimens from 
Cave Hill. 
Bed Broom-rape. 
German, Rotliche Sommerwurz. 
This species infests the roots of broom, and is parasitic on the wild thyme. 
SPECIES VI— OROBANCHE C ARYOPH YLL ACE A. Sm. 
Plate MXII. 
Reich. Ic. EL Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCCLXXXIII. Fig. I. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. GOO. 
( ». Galii, Duly. Renter, in D. C. Prod. Vol. XI. p. 21. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. 
ed. ii. p. 615. Gr. & GoJr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. p. 631. 
O. vulgaris, D. C. Fl. Fr. Vol. III. p. 489. 
Flowers ascending. Bracts shorter than the flowers. Sepals 
2-cleft, shorter than the tube of the corolla ; upper segment with 
3 conspicuous veins. Corolla densely pubescent with gland-tipped 
hairs ; tube widely cylindrical, regularly curved ; upper lip notched, 
with the margins tree' ; lower lip 3-lobed, with the lobes nearly 
equal ; all crimped and sharply denticulate, those of the lower lip 
almost fimbriate. Stamens inserted near the base of the corolla ; 
filaments hairy on the inner side towards the base, their apex and 
the whole of the style clothed with gland-tipped hairs. Stigma of 
2 divaricate lobes, purple. 
Parasitical on Galium Mollugo (datum) and G. verum, Lotus 
corniculatus and Rubus fruticosus. Very local. Only known to 
occur in South Kent, principally about Folkestone, as about 
