746 DIDYNAMIA. ANGIOSPERMIA. Ohobanche. 
shaped, somewhat keeled, sessile. Calyx segments pointed, the two outer 
largest, the inner halved, the sides next the stem being wanting. Blossom 
tube ventricose, yellow at the base, the upper part and lips bluish purple, 
hairy on the outside ; upper lip roundish, cloven, lower lip broad, three- 
cleft, the middle segment largest, and with two yellowish prominencies 
at the mouth. Filaments within the tube, bluish. Anthers yellow. Style 
longer than the filaments and bending towards them, bluish. Summit 
blunt. Woodw. Stem about a span high; generally, but not always, 
branched. 
Branched Broom-rape. Corn-fields and dry pastures. (Mr. Sutton has 
found it only in rich moist soil. E.) Isle of Sheppey, and near Feversham 
and Rochester; about Glastonbury; and in Devonshire and Hants. 
Hudson. (In a Hemp-field on the opposite side of the river at Metting- 
ham, near Beccles; and Brome, near Bungay, Suffolk, on the roots of 
hemp and Galeopsis Tetrahit , both annual plants. Mr. Woodward. 
Hemp-fields near Wisbeach. Rev. R. Relhan. (Among hemp at Out- 
well, Norfolk. Rev. C. Sutton. E.) A. June—Sept.* 
* (The different species of Broom-rape are probably much alike in quality, viz. astrin¬ 
gent and vulnerary. Where these plants abound they must be treated by the agriculturist 
as the most destructive weeds, which will fatally impoverish any other crop. E.) 
