QrobAnche major. Common Broom-Rape. 
OROBANCHE Lin. Gen. PL Didynamia Angiospermi a. 
'Cal. bifidus. Cor. ringens. Caps, unilocularis, bivalvis; polyfperma. 
Glandula fub bail germinis. 
Rail Syn. Gen. iS. Herbie fructu sicco singulari flore mcnopetalo. 
OROBANCHE major caule fimpliciflimo pubefcente, Ramiiiibiis fubeitfertis. Lin. Syjl. V e gei ab. p. 4 97. 
Spec. Pl. p. 882. FI. Suec. n. 561. 
OROBANCHE caule fimplici, ftipula unica, calyce quadrifida* Haller. Hi/l. 295. 
OROBANCHE major, Scopoli FI. Carri, n. 782. 
OROBANCHE major Garyophyllum olens. Bauh. pin. 87. 
RAPUM GeniftiE Gemmae, xatl. Parii»/. 229. Rail Syh. ji. Broom-rape. Htldfin. FI. Angi, 
ed. 2. p. 266. Lightfobl Flor. Scot. p. 332. 
RADIX Spartii fcoparii radicibus plerumque adhafeitur. | ROOT generally grows to the roots of the common 
I Broom. 
CAULIS pedalis ad fefqui pedalem, ereftus, fimplex, fif- i STALK from a foot to a foot rind a half in height, up- 
tulofus, teretiuiculus, fulcato-ftriatus, villo - 1 right, Ample, hollow, rou'ndifh, fomevvhat 
fus, purpuraicens, fquamis fparfis, marcidis, •% channeled, villous, of a purpl.lh colour, co- 
tedus, ad bafin bulbofus, bulbo fquamoio. | vered with withered fquam<e, bulbous at bot- 
| tom, the bulb fquamous. 
FLORES fpicati, feffiles, purpurafeentes plerumque, ali - 1 FLOWERS growing in fpikes, leffile, for the mod part 
quando etiam flavefeentes, fpica primo acuta, | purpli(h, -fometimes alfo yellowilh, the b ike 
dein fubcylindrica. ? is at firft pointed, and then becomes cyhn- 
| drical. 
CALYX: Perianthium monophyllum, eredum, | CALYX : a Periantiiium of one leaf; upright, di- 
quadrifidum, poftice ad bafin ufque divifum, et | '•"*« *«** nnfW.nrlv onitft 
antice magis profunde quam ad latera, villo- 
fum, albefeens, laciniis feu dentibus fubrequa- 1 
libus, ferrugineis, fig. 1. $ 
vided into four fegments, pofteriorly quite 
down to the bafe, and anteriorly more deeply 
that at the fides ; villous, whitifh, the leg- 
ments or teeth nearly equal, and ferruginous. 
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COROLLA: monopetala, ringens, plerumque purpu- | COROLLA monopetalOus, ringent, generally pdrplifii, 
rafeens, ad ferrugineum colorem accedens, per-¥ approaching to the colour ot rufty iron ; tube 
flftens; tubus inclinatus, amplus, ventricolus ; | bending downward, large, bellying out ; mouth 
faux hians ; labium fuperius coucavum, oblolete * gaping ; upper-lip hollow; ' obfoietely trifid, 
trifidum, fubcarinatum, externe vifeidum ; la- | fomewhat keeled, and externally vileid ; the 
bium inferius trifidum, laciuula media produc- f lower lip trifid and hollow, the middle feg- 
tiore, concava, fig. 2. | ment the longed, fig. 2. 
STAMINA: Filamenta quatuor, fubulata, alba, fub J STAMINA : four Filaments, tapering, white, hid 
labio fuperiore recondita, quorum duo longiora ; f under the upper Lip, two ot Which are longer 
Antheraj leviter cohaerentes, ftraminea;, di- | 
dym$, ovatze, mucronibus terminate, fig. 3. | 
than the reft; Anthers {lightly cohering, 
of a ftraw colour, double, ovate, each cavity 
terminating in a point, fig. 3. 
PISTILLUM: Germen oblongum, bafi antice tribus | PISTILLUM : Germen oblong, marked anteriorly at 
glandulis, protuberantibus, flavis, melleum li- 1 the bafe with three protuberant yellow glands, 
quoremcopiofe fundentibus, notatum; Stylus I which pour forth plentifully a lweet liquor j 
pubefeens, ftaminibus paulo longior, purpuraf-| Style downy, a little longer than the fta- 
cens, apice inflexus; Stigma femibifidum, | mina, purplifh, bent down at top ; Stigma 
obtulum, craffiufculum, flavum, fig. 4. f half-divided, obtufe, thickifh, and yellow. 
I fig-*- ... 
PERICARPIUM : Capsula ovato-oblonga, acuminata, % SEED-VEsSEL an ovate, oblong cap/ule, terminating in 
unilocularis, bi valvis, fig. 5. • ! a point, of one cavity and two valves, fig. 5. 
SEMINA numerofa, minima; receptacula quatuor, li-f SEEDS numerous and very {mail ; receptacles four, li- 
nearia, lateralia, adnata, fig. 6, 7. I near, growing to the lides of the caplule. 
I fig- 6 > 7- 
The literal Englifh tranflation of the Greek word Orobanche is Strangle-tare*: this term has been given by 
Dioscorides to one plant, and by Theophrastus to another ; ours is undoubtedly the Orobanche of Dioscorides, 
(as it accords with his delcriptionf), and alfo of Pliny. The Orobanche of Theophrastus mail have been lome 
* OPOBATXH, Ervangina Gaza, quod opoSou ayyii, ervum Jlrangulct, dicitur. 
+ “ Orobanche cauliculus eft fefquipedalis, et interdum major, fubruber, hirfuius, tener, fine folio, pinguis : -flore fubalbido, am in luteum 
“ vergente: radice digiti craffitudine, et cum ariditate flaccefcit caulis, fiftulofa. Hanc inter quaedam legumina nalci conftai, ec ea ftrangulare, 
“ unde Orobanche fibi cognomentum ufurpavit. Eftur, ut olus, cruda, et in patinis, afparagi modo, decofta.^ Legumentis addita, concoaio- 
“ nem accelerare creditur.” Matih. ex Diofc. . 
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