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Ramosissimaj an ia tWo anrantiacft? in aieeo fuBcesepos. 

 Rami dGxtrorsnm rolabileB aag^oloBi^ 119 Ou&cutae europaeac 

 craasiiie fere aeqaales, nllimi filiformos. RacemuH pienira^ 

 qne 4 — 6-Hori '/g cent, propemoc)«rn lon^i, Icrni fnscimilalini 

 aggtegatj, siuguli bractea lanceolata sustcBti; ali((tiaHcIo iu 

 ramoio plnrea fascicnli coiifprle disposili racemum compont- 

 turn eisteastes; pedweUi brevissimi, vel uiilH; hracteolae 

 elliptioae obtti^ae, i^/aa sub aKlhesi eirciter 3 mm. longos. 

 Gal^x iparumper oMiquaf^, lobis acit. axis speciantibas paul- 

 lalnm breTioribaa et angnstioribos, reliqnis lato-ovatis ob-^ 

 tusissiiDis. Coroilae tDbU3 basi circum oyarium eubreulrico- 



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8D3^ caelerHiD t»bu)DSo- rampauuialns , lacinib aiigiislc til- 

 l/ptiris coiicavis connivejitlbNS, arfeo ui in specmliubns srrcis 

 omiies flores clausi, Stafiiina laciciis coroUac Y2 I»reviora, 

 filamentis compresso ^ subulatis anthera coniaia Mlor uinri 

 antice rimis loiigitudiiialibug aperta paiilo lon^ioribus- Squa- 

 mae pan Ho supra Imsiii Uibo corolUe insert ae coiinivciites? 

 elliplico - laiiceolatae^ in sicro morabraiiaceac, aciitae vel obtii- 

 sae^ baud raro iriincalae Tel sinuato- tniiicalae, intcgerrimae 

 et glabrae , quaodoijiie deotiiulo lateraii inslritctae. StyU 

 ovario depresso-gioboso paiillo loDglores teretes glabri di- 

 varicatf aeqoales stigmatibus capHcIlaJlg, 



Observe Sub Cuscutae americanae L, tJlnlo hodicPliaro 

 post aciitas Eugelmanni disfjinsiiiones p!urc3 adhac spe- 

 cies confusaa esse, neiBO non inlclligll. Qnaeoam e rasta 

 Cuscutaruin americanarum gregc bU gennina species Lid- 

 uacana difficile dictu, Quara Jacquines {PL americ. p.24:, 

 edit, pf'ct. Tab^ 17.) ex India ocfidentali hoc Domioe acca- 

 rale desrripsit fjiiaraqne e characteribus proposUis cognosccrc 

 Jicebitj hi posterum lioc nomine recipere conanUnm eo magis 

 vrdetnr, crira hiij^s forlasse synonymon sit Ctiscuta Sloane 

 Hint. Jam. I. p. 201. Tab, 128. Jig. 1^ quam Linnaeus 

 etiam ad C amertcanam citabal. Haec aotem species a 



