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in, yellowifh-white, (lightly pubefcent; having, inftead 
of leaves, fcales, which are ovate, acuminate, yellowifli- 
white, fcattered, and fefliie. Flowers folitary, alternate, 
fefliie, eredl, forming a loofe (pike, cloferattop; fome- 
times there are two or three flowers together from a 
bradle, and about twenty-two in the whole fpike; they 
are half an inch in diameter, about feven lines in width, 
and an inch in length ; bradies lanceolate, the length of 
the flowers, yellowiffi-brown ; calyx whitifh, tinged with 
pale-red, pubefcent all over on the outlide, ciliate on the 
edge, confiding of two fegments at the bafe irregularly 
toothed ; the two lateral teeth larger than the others, and 
fharp : corolla whitilh, very-pale purple at top, with a 
fmall mixture of yellow, pubefcent on the outiide: fila¬ 
ments bent, white, pubefcent; anthers yellowilh-brovvn. 
The whoie has a ftrong f'mell of cloves. It was ga¬ 
thered by Dr Smith, on lhrubby hills near Valcimara, at 
the foot of the Apennines, m April 1787. Linnteus re¬ 
ceived it from Siberia; Pollicli found it about Lauteren 
in the Palatinate, in dry padures, orchards, corn-fields, 
and among hemp; flowering in May and June. Pro¬ 
bably in other parts of Europe; but not fo common as the 
fird ipecies. 
6. Orobanche gracilis, or fiender broom-rape: Hem 
fimpie ; corolla inflated, lower lip very fliort, with the ieg- 
ments obcordate, unequal, fringed, and curled ; fiamens 
and dyle with hairs flanding out. This has a taller and 
more fiender Item than O. major, and is upon the 
whole lefs pubefcent. The bradies are fborter than the 
flowers. Corolla the fize of O. major; but the up¬ 
per lip is of a dark or purplifh colour, and lefs fimbri¬ 
ated or crifped ; the lower lip is remarkably fliort, in three 
obcordate fimbriated fegments, of which the middle one 
is larger than the other two, and is connedled at its bafe 
with the very-prominent two-lobed palate of the flower. 
The fiamens are fiender, thinly clothed all over, as well 
as the dyle, with fcattered hairs, and projedt out of the 
mouth of the flower. Gathered by Dr. Smith, in hilly 
padures at St. Orfefe, near Genoa, in July 1787. 
7. Orobanche minor, or fmall broom-rape: item quite 
fimpie; corollas quadrifid ; fiamens with glandular hairs 
below; Itigma retufe ; dyle fmooth above. Root like 
thofe of O. major and O. elatior, only with fewer 
fcales, adhering for the mod part to the woody root of 
Trifolium pratenfe. Stem from fix to twelve inches high, 
eredt, roundifh, hairy, almofi the thicknefs of a goofe- 
quiil, flelh-coloured, or foinetimes yellow, fcaly, but with 
fewer fcales; there are feverai of them fometimes aggre¬ 
gate. Flowers in fpikes, vvhitifli-yellow, with purple veins, 
hairy, varying to a full yellow. It differs from O. elatior 
in its two-leaved variable calyx; from O. major, in its 
cylindrical corolla; from both, in the fmallnefs of the 
corolla. 
8. Orobanche Americana, or American broom-rape: 
Item quite fimpie, imbricate, with leaves; corollas re¬ 
curved ; fiamens danding out. Stems fcarcely fo thick 
as the human finger, a fpan high, round, coloured, fuc- 
culent, imbricated all over with ovate-lanceolate, fefliie, 
acuminate, eredt, coloured, dirivelling, leaves. The 
whole plant, with the frudtification, yellow. Found 
in Carolina, at the roots of trees and fhrubs, by Dr. Gar¬ 
den. Linnasus received one very like it from Siberia, 
fcarcely to be didinguifiied, except in the bluntnefs of the 
leaves. 
9. Orobanche cernua, or drooping broom-rape: dem 
quite fimpie; corollas recurved; bradies ovate, fliorter 
tnan the corolla ; dem almod naked. Native of Spain 
and Siberia. 
10. Orobanche purpurea, or purple broom-rape: dem 
fimpie and branched ; corollas quadrifid ; fiamens fpurred. 
This is of a red-purple when frefii, but turns black in 
drying. Flowers large. It was found at the Cape of 
Good Hope by Thunberg. 
11. Orobanche casrulea, or blue broom-rape: dem 
commonly fimpie; corollas quinquefid ; bradies by threes; 
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calyxes tubular, half-quadrifid. Root as in the other 
fpecies, with fibres embracing the roots of different herbs. 
Stem from fix to ten inches high, eredl, rigid, fomewhat 
hairy, a little flexuole, angular, fomewhat woody, of a 
yellow-olive colour, the thicknefs of a goofe or fwan’s 
quill; the fcales on it ovate-lanceolate. Flowers in loofe 
bluntifh fpikes, violet with deeper-coloured veins, llightly 
hairy. The ftem in this Ipecies, though generally, is not 
always, unbranched. The little that was known of it i:i 
England, till lately, was from Mr. Pitchford’s fpecime.i 
found in 1779 at Northrepps, and from Mr. Lightfoot’s, 
in the pofleflion of the late queen. Being tnoft allied to 
O. rantofa, it was taken at fird for a variety of that. In 
1796 Mr. Scrimpfhire found feverai plants of it at Sbe- 
ringham, and Mr. Sutton a few in the adjoining parifn of 
Beeffon. It feems to be more generally found abroad, 
where it has ufually palled for O. lsevis of Linnaeus. It 
grows among grafs in paftures, and on the borders of 
fields, in Swifferland, Auffria, Germany, and the fouth 
of France. 
12. Orobanche caerulefcens, or bluifh broom-rape: 
dem fimpie ; corolla tubular ; bradies the length of the 
flower, clothed, like the divided calyx-leaves, with 
white hairs ; fiamens and dyle fmooth. Native of Sibe¬ 
ria, near the Cafpian Sea, from whence it was fent to 
Profeffor Wildenow by his friend Stephanus. Gathered 
at Algiers by the late M. Broufl'onet. Stem fimpie, near 
a foot high, driated, downy, clothed above with white 
dtaggy hairs, as are alfo its icales or leaves. Spike denfe, 
three inches long, white, in confequence of the long 
fnowy hairs which cover the bradies and calyx, though 
the flowers are blniflt. 
13. Orobanche comofa, or tufted broom-rape: ftem 
Ample; corolla inflated; bradies hairy; the lower ones 
broad and ov.ate ; the upper elongated and taper-pointed ; 
fiamens and dyle fmooth. Sent by Mr. Schmaltz from 
Palermo, by the name of O. rubra ; but it is different from 
what we have defcribed above under that appellation, the 
calyx-leaves being deeply divided. The fcales of the ftem, 
as well as the lower bradies, are remarkably broad, ob- 
tufe, and covered externally with white fhaggy hairs ; 
while the upper bradtes are furnifhed with long, Ipreading, 
fmooth, points, and crowded into a tuft, apparently pro¬ 
ducing no flowers. 
14. Orobanche alba, or white broom-rape : ffem fimpie; 
corolla tubular, toothed ; its lower lip in three rounded, 
nearly-equal, fegments ; damens fiightly fringed below ; 
dyle hairy upwards; calyx-leaves undivided, combined. 
Native of Siberia, near the Cafpian Sea. Stemhalfa foot 
high, tawny, and hairy. Spike about two inches long, 
the lower flowers remote. Bradies ovate, acute, hairy, 
rather exceeding the calyx, whole fegments are undi¬ 
vided, combined at their bafe ; corolia cylindrical, white, 
clothed with glandular hairs. Delcribed by Wildenow, 
N° 8. 
15. Orobanche ramofa, or branched broom-rape: ftem 
branched; corollas quinquefid; bradies by threes; ca¬ 
lyxes fliort, deeply quadrifid. Root a folid bulb, ellip¬ 
tical, naked, or furnifhed with one or two ovate-lanceo¬ 
late fefliie fcales; and numerous fliort thick fibres, affixed 
laterally, and intermixed with the fiender fibres of the roots 
of hemp or other annual plants, and fometimes to thofe 
of grafs. Stem a continuation of the bulb, nearly round, 
brown or dirty-yellow, naked, or furnifhed with very few 
fcales, (from fix to ten inches high, upright, fomewhat 
fiexuofe, hairy, fomewhat woody, yellow tinged with 
purple, the thicknefs nearly of a fwan’s quill.) Stem 
and branches terminated by a thick ((harp) fpike of fefliie 
flowers, each having an ovate-lanceolate fomewhat-cari- 
nated bradleal fcale. It is didinguifiied from the preceding 
by its fharp fpikes, the few fcales on the ftem and 
branches, the calyxes and bradies being fhorter by half 
than the corolla, the tube of which, after flowering, is glo¬ 
bular at bottom. Native of feyeral parts of Europe, 
fouth of France, Swifferland, Germany, England. Found 
near 
