744 DIDYNAMIA. ANGIOSPERMIA. Orobanche. 
its peculiar characteristic, the scent of cloves, ec garyophyllum olevs,” 
(Bauh.) is remarkably developed if the plant be flowered in water, Vid. 
pi. iii. in Obs. on the Plants of 8. Kent, by Gerard. Edwards. Smith. E.) 
(O. ela'tior. Stem undivided: blossom tubular, lower lip in three 
acute equal segments: stamens downy: style smooth. 
Linn. Tr . vol. 4. 1 . 17 — E. Bot. 568-—FL Dan . 1338. 
The Rev. C. Sutton, who first discriminated this species, states that it has 
usually been confounded with O. major. It is taller and yellower than 
that plant, also bearing a much more numerous assemblage of flowers ; 
as many as a hundred having been counted on one spike. Smith observes 
that the leaves of the calyx are united at the base before ; the blossom 
less inflated than in O. major ; its border much curled and fringed; 
upper lip sometimes a little cloven. Stamens inserted into the tube above 
its base, smooth on the upper part. Stigma inversely heart-shaped, yel- 
low. 
Tall Broom-rape. Not uncommon in clover-fields, balks, and thickets; 
but not on the roots of Broom or Furze. About Gunton, Kelling, Sher- 
ingham, Catton, and Costesy, Norfolk. Rev. C. Sutton. At Houxton, 
Comberton Hill, between Shelford and Stapleford, Cambridgeshire. Rev. 
R. Relhan. (In Cawsey Wood, Durham. Mr. Winch. Near Leiston Abbey, 
Suffolk. Mr. W. Christy. In July, 1825, Mr. Frederick Russell gathered 
a specimen on the sea shore, a quarter of a mile from Clevedon New Inn, 
Somersetshire, which measured in height two feet one inch and a half, 
and was as thick as a man’s thumb. E.) P. July—Aug. E.) 
(O. mi'nor. Stem simple: blossom tubular: upper lip undivided: 
lower with three curled segments, the middle one lobed: stamens 
fringed : style smooth. 
E. Bot. 422—FI. Dan. 1219. 
Smaller in all its parts than O. major; and more generally of a purplish cast, 
though it has been sometimes found by the Rev. C. Sutton of a pale yel¬ 
low colour. Floral-leaves solitary. Flowers scarcely at all tumid. Calyx - 
leaves more unequally divided though not invariably so. Stem inclined to 
zigzag in a slight degree. Stamens in their lower part thickly ciliated 
with projecting hairs, a distinction which never fails. Stigma purple. 
E. Bot. Mr. Sutton remarks that the stigmas are not well represented 
in the above-cited figure of E. Bot., and that the spike is frequently 
much longer, bearing more numerous and more thickly set flowers than 
are there represented. 
Lesser Broom-rape. Plentiful in Kent, as found by Mr. Joseph Rayer, 
whence Sir J. E. Smith conjectures it to be the O. Jlore minore of Dill, 
in Ray Syn. In various parts of Norfolk ; especially in clover-fields, to 
the roots of which it seems attached. Near Sheringham. Rev. C. Sut¬ 
ton. (A destructive weed in Surry and Sussex, highly injurious to the 
clover crops : also among clover at Brockham and Betchworth, Surry. 
Mr. Winch. Covering a field near Matford, on the Starcross road about 
half a mile from Alphington church, Devon. Rev. H. T. Ellicombe. E.) 
A ? July. E.) 
(O, rubra. Stem simple, : blossom tubular, upper lip cloven : lower 
in three nearly equal segments: stamens fringed at the base: 
germea and style at their summits .* tacteas solitary. 
