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and North along the West coast to Carnarvon. In Ireland chiefly 
near the coast. 
England, Ireland. Perennial. Summer. 
Stem G inches to 2 feet high, purple. Flowers rather distant, 
-f to -J inch long, cream-coloured, strongly veined with purple. 
Bracts purple. 
Most probably O. Ilcdenc is merely a sub-species of O. minor, 
as the more lax spike, 1-nerved sepals, and yellowish stigma of 
2 coherent globular lobes, are all the points by which it can be 
distinguished from the common form of O. minor; at the same 
time it must be borne in mind that the differences between the 
different species of Orobanche are very slight, and the junction of 
O. Hederse with O. minor would necessitate the reduction of half 
the species described by M. Reuter; so that it is necessary to pause 
before inaugurating such wholesale changes. 
Ivy Broom-rape. 
German, Epheu Sommerwurz. 
SPECIES X— O ROBANCHE MINOR. Linn. 
Plates MXVI. MXYIL 
Flowers spreading. Bracts as long as, or longer than the 
flowers. Sepals about as long as the tube of the corolla, entire or 
2-cleft ; the upper segment usually with 3 conspicuous nerves. 
Corolla pubescent with gland-tipped hairs ; tube rather narrowly 
cylindrical, slightly curved, with the curvature greatest towards 
the base ; upper lip sub-erect, notched or 2-lobed, with the lobes 
spreading ; lower lip 3-lobed, with the middle lobe slightly larger 
than the others ; all crimped and sharply denticulate. Stamens 
inserted a little below the middle of the corolla-tube ; filaments 
very slightly hairy on the inner side towards the base, their upper 
half and the style sub-glabrous. Stigma of 2 divaricate lobes, 
purple. 
Sub-Species I— Orobanche eu-minor. 
Plate MXVI. 
Reich. Ic. EL Germ, et Helv. Vol. XX. Tab. MDCCCIV. 
Billot, FL Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 2513. 
O. minor, Thuill. Reuter, in D. C. Prod. Vol. XL p. 29. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. 
p. 237. Hook. & Am. Brit. FL ed. viii. p. 301. Koch, Syn. FL Germ, et llelv. 
ed. ii. p. 611. Or. k Godr. FL de Fr. Vol. II. p. 640. 
