564 Mr. BaBiNGTON on Cuscuta epilinum and halophyta. 
Bowman for the specimens examined, which were gathered near Trelydan 
Hall, Montgomeryshire, on the 8th of August, 1839. 
The other species to which I would direct attention is a newly-discovered 
plant, first described by Fries in his Novitiarum Fl. Suec. Mantissa prima 
(p. 8.), under the name of C. halophyta. It was discovered “ Ad litus marinum 
Norvegiæ australis, supra plantas salinas succulentas v. c. Chenopodiaceas. 
Dedit Blytt." For my specimen I am indebted to my friend Mr. R. B. Bow- 
man of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to whom it was given by Dr. Blytt himself, 
who gathered it “on the coast of the Fiórd near Christiania.” As Fries takes 
no notice of the scales in this plant, it gave me great pleasure to discover their 
existence in my specimen, in which the tube of the corolla is ventricose, and 
the scales are closely adpressed to its surface; they are very similar to those 
of C. epilinum, but are more deeply bifid, and have, as I believe, bifid not trifid 
segments; this, however, is very difficult to determine, on account of their 
perfect transparency and tenacity. Fig. 2. is intended to convey a general 
idea of the internal appearance of the corolla of this species, whose segments 
are broad and obtuse, and which has its stamens placed quite at the upper 
extremity of the tube, far above the scales, and apparently upon filaments 
which are alternately long and short. 
I would add to the specific characters of C. europea and C. epithymum, 
which are given in my former paper, the words—calyce corollà multó brevi- 
ori,—and give the following as the characters of the plants at present under 
consideration. 
C. epilinum, Weihe (in Boenningh. Prod. Fl. Monast. 75.) florum glomerulis 
bracteatis sessilibus, squamis palmato-subsexfidis tubo corollæ semper 
ventricoso adpressis, calycis laciniis carnosis basi deltoideis corollà vix 
brevioribus. Corolle lacinice acute. 
C. halophyta, Fries (Nov. Fl. Suec. Mantis. p.8.), * florum glomerulis subbrac- 
teatis” sessilibus, squamis bifidis: segmentis bifidis tubo coroll: ventri- 
coso adpressis, calyce corollà multó breviori.—Corollæ laciniæ ovate, 
obtuse. Calycis laciniæ obtuse. Styli duo. Glomerulos florum . . . ... 
bracteatos vidi plurimos." Fries. 
St. John's College, Cambridge, 
October 16, 1839, 
