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Flowers fleshy, with the cells convex-lens shaped ; corolla lobes iiprighr, tips 

 inflexed 4. Cusciita Coryli. 



Flowers not as al)ove 5. (Uisrutd I'oliinojionini . 



Capsules globose or depressed-globose (not pointed); corolla lobes reflexed, 

 acute, with inflexed tips '. . 6. Cuscuta pentuf/oiHi. 



Capsules ovoid or globose-pointed ; corolla iobes upright to spreading, ob- 

 tuse 7. Cuscuta Oronovii. 



Usually found parasitizing legumes (ordinarily clover or nlfaira') ; styles, in- 

 cluding the stigina, exceeding the length of the ovary 8. Ciisnitti Kiiiilnnnum. 



Usually parasitizing flax; styles, including the stigma, not cxccidiiiL; tlir Iciitrth 

 of the ovary U. Cii^i-ntn Epiliuum. 



1. Cuscuta glomerata Choisy. Glomerate dodder. 



Fig. I. — Cuscuta glomerata. x4. 



[Figure I.] 



C. glomerate Choisy, Mem. Soc. Phys. et Hist. Nat. Geneve, .9 :2S0. pi. h fig. 1. 1S4I. 

 Indiana marks the eastern limits of this, the most conspicuous of our 

 species. The yellow, rope-like clusters of the flowers are not infrequently 

 one to one and a half inches in thickness. It produces but few seeds, most 

 of the ovules being abortive. Bessey (Amer. Nat. IS: 1145. 1881) pointed 

 out the fact that the flowers are produced endogenously breaking forth iti 

 two more or less parallel lines. This species favors tall Compositae. 



Specimens examined: — Lalve Co.. Whiting (Chase .}22) : Floyd Co.. New All)an.v 

 (Clapp) : Marshall Co.. Lal^e Maxinl^uckee {Clark in 1909) ; Wells Co. {Dcam in 

 1901) ; McCallon's (Clapp in 1837). 



