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O. minor. H. J. Boreham's 1953 record from Bury St Edmunds on Ground Ivy (Glechoma hederacae) (Simpson, 1982) can be dismissed. O. caryophyllacea Sm. Clove-scented Broomrape Rumsey (1985) suggests Suffolk records of this species are confusions with O. rapum-genistae. No specimens were collected by C. T. Giles of the plants found at Cläre apparently growing on Lady's Bedstraw (Galium verum) (Giles, 1951); it seems the identification was based on the assumed host rather than the Broomrape itself. As O. elatior was found at the same site, it is likely it was simply this species growing some distance from Centaurea and assumed to be parasitising Galium. There are no specimens to support the records from Hawstead, Semer and Sudbury in Hind (1889), and given the very restricted native distribution of this species it seems likely these were also errors for other species. O. elatior Sutton. Tall Broomrape This species is now quite scarce in the County, it has lost most of its sites in E. Suffolk (v.c. 25) and there are only a few left in the west of the County. It still
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