24 PENTANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Cuscuta. 

 133. CUSCUTA. Dodder. 



Linn. Gen. 66. Jiiss. 135. Fl. Br. 282. Tourn.t. 422. Lam.t.88. 

 Gcertn. t. 62. 



Nat. Ord. Camjjcmacea. Linn. 29 ? Allied to Coiivolvuli. 

 Juss. 43. ConvolvulacecB ; embryo destitute of cotyledons. 

 Br. Pr. 4-91. 



Cal. inferior, of 1 leaf, cup-shaped, in 5, sometimes only 4, 

 broad, more or less deep, permanent segments ; the base 

 fleshy. Cor. of 1 petal ; tube elliptical or cylindrical ; 

 limb in 5, sometimes 4, deep, spreading, equal segments, 

 which, in some species, are accompanied at the base with 

 as many inflexed scales, alternate with the segments, 

 closing the throat. Filam. 5, or 4, alternate with the 

 segments, and above each scale, if present, in the throat 

 of the corolla, awl-shaped, erect, equal, shorter than the 

 limb. Anth. roundish, 2-lobed. Germ, superior, roundish. 

 Styles 2, rarely solitary, sometimes 3, shorter than the 

 corolla, spreading. Stigm. either simple or capitate. Caps. 

 membranous, invested with the faded corolla, elliptical, 

 of 2 cells, bursting all round towards the base. Seeds 2 

 in each cell, large, obovate, erect; the emhryo spiral, 

 making about 3 horizontal convolutions (according to 

 Gaertner) round the central, globose, fleshy albumen^ and 

 perfectly simple, or monocotyledonous, as observed by 

 Linnaeus, Sp. PL 180, and confirmed by various eminent 

 botanists. 



Parasitical leafless herbs, with a twining stem, alternately 

 branched; and sessile lateral heads, or spikes, of pale 

 JlowerSy each Jio^er accompanied by a bractea. 



1 . C. em^opcEa. Greater Dodder. 



Flowers nearly sessile. Corolla without scales. Stigmas 

 acute. 



C. europsea. Linn. Sp. PL 180. fVilld. v. 1. 702. Fl. Br. 282. E7igL 



Bot.v.6.t.378. Gent. Mag. v.\9.349.t.3Dl. Hook. Lond.t.67. 



Scot. 86. Fl. Dan. t. 199. Ehrh. PL Off.362. 

 C. n. 654, major. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 291. 

 C. major. Bauh. Pin. 209. 

 Cuscuta. Matth. Falgr.v.2.6l6.f. Camer. Epit. 9S4.f. Gcr. 



Em. o77.f. 

 Cassutha. Fuchs. Hist. 3 47. t. 348. Dod. Pempt.554.f. Dalecli. 



Hist. \ 683. f. 

 Androsaces, vulgo Cuscuta. Trag. Hist. 810./. 



