DIDYNAMIA. ANGIOSPERMIA. Oeobanche. 745 
Hook. FI. Lond. 105— E. Bot. 1786. 
Roots creeping. Stem about a foot high, bulbous and most scaly at the base, 
ending in a spike of nearly twenty flowers, and clothed, as well as the 
upper part of the blossom, with glandular viscid hairs. Floral-leaves 
spear-shaped, acute. Calyx-leaves undivided. Blossom very slightly 
tumid, fringed with glandular hairs. Style red. The whole plant above 
ground is of a purplish red. The jlowers smell powerfully like a honey-* 
suckle or pink. E. Bot. 
Red Fragrant or Basaltic Broom-rape. First discovered on a Basal-* 
tic rock at Cave hill, near Belfast, Aug. 1805, by John Templeton, Esq.) 
(Dr. Hooker considers that this plant has a peculiar predilection for 
Basaltic rocks, and, therefore, suggests that it might with propriety be 
named O. basaltica. On the Island of StafFa, and the Giant’s Causeway, 
(also basaltic), springing out of a very thin layer of soil, having no appear¬ 
ance of being parasitic. FI. Lond. Near Seafield Tower between Kirk¬ 
caldy and Kinghorn. Maughan. Grev. Edin. Ards, Donegal. Mr. Mur* 
phy. E.) 
(2) Floral-leaves ternate. 
(O. cjeru'lea. Stem simple: blossom tubular: upper-lip cloven and 
notched : lower in three equal entire segments: stamens smooth: 
floral-leaves three: style downy. 
E. Bot. 423— Jacq. Austr. t. 276— Gmel. FI. Sib . v. 131. t. 46./. 1. E.) 
Stem scaly, slightly downy ; (about a foot high. E.) Scales oval-spear* 
shaped. Spike loose. Floral-leaves oval-spear-shaped, somewhat keeled, 
as long as the calyx. Calyx with four deep divisions; segments awl- 
shaped, the two outer the largest, the inner one next the stem very small. 
Blossom tube longer than the calyx ; upper lip short, cloven, roundish: 
lower three-cleft. Stamens within the flower. Woodw. (In general less 
pubescent, and of a more decided blue colour than either O. major or 
minor. Blossom pale violet, with a downy, white, divided palate. Stem 
not always unbranched, according to the observation of Rev. C. Sutton. 
Purple Broom-rape. O. ccerulea. Vill. Orchis abortiva of the older 
British authors. O. purpurea. Jacq. O. ramosa. var. 2. With. Ed. 4. 
Hilly pastures on the north coast of Norfolk. A single specimen was 
found in 1779, by Mr. Scarles, near Northreps, and several more in 1796, 
near Sheringham, by Mr. Skrimshire, of Wisbeach; also by the Rev. C. 
Sutton at Beeston, near Cromer. E. Bot. Near Alton, in Hampshire. 
Ray. Among rocks at Steephill, Isle of Wight. Mr. Caley, in autumn, 
1300. P. July. E.) 
O. ramosa. Stem branched, five-cleft: (segments obtuse, entire: 
floral-leaves three. E.) 
E. Bot. 184; the root in a diseased state. Woodw. — Sabbat, iii. 12— Cam. 
Epit. 311— J. B. ii. 781.2 —Clus. i. 271. 1— Ger. Em. 1312. 3— Pet. 69. 11. 
Root a solid bulb, (sometimes tumid from injury or disease, E.), naked, or 
furnished with one or two spear-shaped sessile scales, and numerous short, 
thick, fibres, affixed laterally, adhering and intermixed with the fibres of the 
roots of hemp or other plants. Stem a continuation of the bulb, nearly 
cylindrical when fresh, angular when dry, slightly downy, brown or dirty 
yellow, naked, or furnished with very few scales. Branches either im¬ 
mediately from the root, or alternate, swelling at the base, .nearly upright, 
with each a scale at the base, Spikes terminal. Floral-leaves oval-spear^ 
