106 Class V. Order II, 



the sun, erect and twisted at other times, contracted below, with 

 four large internal glands at base. Germ lanceolate, stigmas? 

 two, thin, roundish ovate. On the Concord turnpike. Septem- 

 ber, October. 



108. CUSCUTA. 



CUSCUTA AMERICANA. L. Dodder. 



Flowers peduncled, umbellate, five cleft. Willd. 



A small, yellowish, leafless vine, twining round other plants, 

 which it penetrates with lateral roots so as to derive nourish- 

 ment from their juices. Its small umbels of flowers appear in 

 June and July, and are followed by crowded, roundish, depress- 

 ed, mostly four seeded capsules, tuberculated under a magnifier, 

 and having a terminal cavity. 



109. HEUCHERA, 



HEUCHERA AMERICANA. L. Mum Root. 



Viscid-pubescent ; leaves rough, round-lobed and 

 toothed ; stalks of the panicle divaricate ; calyx ob- 

 tuse ; petals as long as the calyx, lanceolate ; sta- 

 mens much exserted, 



Syn. HEUCHERA CORTUSA. MX. 



Found in Connecticut, but not within my knowledge in Mas- 

 sachusetts. June. 



110. SALSOLA. 



SALSOLA CAROLINIANA. Mich, American Saltivort. 



Herbaceous, decumbent ; leaves subulate, spinous. 

 smooth, dilated and entire at base ; calyx axillary r 

 margined. 



A stiff, prickly plant of the sea shore. Stems much branched, 

 angular, smooth.. Leaves cylindrical while youag, tipt with a 

 spine, sessile. The lower leaves are deciduous, so that when 

 the fruit is ripe, only the floral leaves remain. These are three 

 in number to each flower, resembling the other leaves, but short- 

 er, their base dilated and perfectly entire, not repand as in Sal- 

 sola Kali. The calyx is externally compressed into a broad. 



