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OROBANCHE major.
Greater Broom-rape.
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D I D T N A M I A Angiofpermia.
G ejx. Char. Cal. in 2, lobed, lateral fegments. Cor.
ringent. Capf of x cell, with 2 valves, and many
feeds. A gland at the bafe •of the germen beneath.
Spec. Char. Stem Ample. Corolla inflated ; its upper
lip undivided ; lower in three equal fegments.
Stamina fmooth. Style downy.
S y n . Orobanche major. Linn. Sp. PI. 882. Hudf. FI. An.
265. With. Bot. Arr. ed. 3. 557. Relh. Cant. 237.
Sibth. Ox. 19 1 . Curt. Bond. fafc. 4. t. 44.
O. major Garyophyllum olens. Rail Syn. 288*.
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O U N D not unfrequently on fhrubby hills over-run with
broon\ and furze, on the roots of which it grows parafltically,
flowering in June or July.
. /The Item is Ample, ereCt, ftraight, angular, downy, very
juicy, clothed with fcattered, upright, lanceolate, leafy fcales;
its bafe fwelling into a bulbous form, which is ftill more
fcaly, and throws out feveral radicles, by which the plant is
attached to, and nourifhed from, the thrub on which it grows,
and it is to all appearance perennial. Flowers feflile, in a terminal,
rather clofe-fet, upright fpike, the whole being of a dull
purplifh yellow hue, clothed with rufty downinefs, and foon
turning altogether brown and withered, in which (late the plant
remains a confiderable time. BraCtese folitary, lanceolate,
moftly Ihorter than the flowers. Calyx of 2 lateral leaves, each
of which is deeply cloven into 2 nearly equal, lanceolate, acute
fegments. Corolla ventricofe or inflated, a little incurved, cari-
nated at the back ; its upper lip perfectly undivided, with a
reflexed waved margin; the lower lip in 3 dependent lobes,
which are equal, acute, more or lefs undulated, and fometimes
almoft crenate. Stamina rather Ihorter than the tube, channelled
at their bafe on the inflde, and perfectly fmooth, or void
of all pubefcence, in their lower part, though a little glandular
juft under the antherse. Style downy. Stigma of two yellow
feparate globules.
We are now perfuaded that the foreign O r o b a n c h e diftinguilhed
by Bauhin as fmelling of cloves, which ours does not, is a diftinCt
fpecies, its ftamina being very hairy at the bafe, which in this
genus feems an important mark. See Sketch gf a Tour on the
Centinentf v. ii. 308.
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