336 THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 
near Leeds, which although near minor did not agree with the 
description in the ‘ Manual.’ On the 31st of July he sent me 
in answer to my request 2 specimens. These I saw were distinct 
from any described British species, and I thought they were 
O. procera, Koch. I sent them to Or. Gunther Beck, and he 
without doubt referred them to procera, which he puts as a form of 
O. reticulata, Wallr. This year in July I visited the locality with 
Mr. A. H. Evans of Cambridge, and found the plant certainly 
parasitic on Cirsium eriophorum (which here hybridises with 
C. lanceolatum) ; the place being a grassy slope with bushes on 
Permian limestone which overlies the Millstone grit about 12 
miles from Leeds with an altitude of about 300 feet. The e.xamina- 
tion of the fresh plant shows that it is quite distinct from majus. 
The height is 12 — 21 inches. In colour the pinky-grey to amber- 
yellow flower spike with brown tipt bract sepals unequally bifid, 
many-veined, orate below, gradually narrowed into subulate points, 
much shorter than the very short corolla tube which is angled rather 
than curved, slightly inflated at base, with a small wavy-edged tri- 
parted equal-divisioned lip with darker veins, anthers orange, 
changing to chocolate, stamens inserted below the middle of 
corolla tube, glabrous. Stigma with lobes not much conhated 
purple. 
From O. major it is readily distinguished by the above 
sectional characters, i.e. the less curved corolla, and by the glabrous 
or nearly glabrous filaments, and in the fresh state by the paler 
colour of the plant and by the purple, not yellow stigma. 
Orobanche reticulata, Wallr., Orob. gen., p. 42, 1825, 
var. procera (Koch. ‘ Flora Deutsch.’ iv., p. 438, as a species), 
Reich. ‘ Ic. FI. Habitat Germ.’ xx. t. 1787. As O. pallidijiora, 
Wimm and Grab. Alsatia (r.r.), Badia, Bavar. (r.r.), Thuringia, 
Borussia (r.), Pomerania (r.), Silesia, Bohemia (r.), Morav., 
Austr. (r.), Styria, Salsb., Tyrol., Hungaria, Slavon., Banatia, &c., 
teste Nyman Consp. 559. See also Archangeli ‘FI. Ital.’ 411, 
1894. 
We owe it to the critical acumen of Mr. H. C. Craven that 
this striking plant was added to our flora, and it is sincerely to 
be trusted that botanists will not eradicate this interesting addition 
to our list. Mr. G. R. Lane Fox, M.P., has kindly consented to 
