192 MONOGRAPH OF THE 
ing of few teeth, styles as long as the ovary with the stylo- 
podium, capsule depressed covered with the remains of the 
corolla, crowned by the stylopodium and reflexed styles. 
(Tas. III. f. 2.) 
B. stylosa ; styles much longer than the ovary, exserted. 
On Corylus ; in the Barrens, W. of St. Louis. Aug. Sep. 
B. On Solidago; dry prairies near St. Louis. E 
Nearly related to C. Cephalanthi, but easily distinguish- 
able by the shape and proportions of its calyx and corolla 
and by the stylopodium on its ovary. Scales of the filaments 
smaller than in any other of our Cuscute and consisting of 
2 teeth on each side of the filament (where it adheres to the 
tube) thereby indicating the real nature of these singular 
* nectaries" Rarer than the other sp. and oftener found 
on dry ground. i 
3. C. vulgivaga (n. sp.) ; stem branched, flowers peduncu- 
late somewhat glomerate or more lax, generally 5-partite 
tube of the corolla deeply campanulate, longer than the pel- 
lucid punctate open (finally reflexed) lobes and the roundish 
carinate obtuse and slightly crenulate calycine segments, 
scales convergent fimbriate united at the base, styles about 
as long as the ovary (with the stylopodium ?) the remains of 
the cor. persistent at the base of the globose capsule. 
(Tas. IIT. f. 3.) . 
a. laxiflora ; flowers in loose cymes. 
B. glomerata ; flowers conglomerate. ; 2 
y. tetramera, flowers in umbelliform cymes 3-4-partité — 
This species has the widest range of any American Cuscutt, 
but is less restricted to the same family or genus of plants; 
indeed I have scarcely met with it twice upon the same 
Var. a. is the S. or W. form, f. is from the Northern pp 
vinces, and from Connecticut. ur 
Intermediate, as a species, between C. Cephalanthi and 
C. Saururi, but distinguished from both by the carina 0* 
the lobes of its calyx being formed of larger uneven prom. 
nent cells and by the large pellucid dots in the substance of 
