168 AMONG THE WILD FLOWERS. 
colour, and dried it, when, as anticipated, it 
turned black. 
The Dodder genus, Cuscuta, also parasites, 
are of Nat. Ord. ConvoLvuLace&. Ona large 
scale the twining stems of Conxvolvulus Sepium, 
Great Hedge Bindweed, with their white bell- 
shaped flowers, are not wanting in resemblance 
to the Dodders with their stems attached to 
their favourite but doomed plants, and their 
little Convolvulus-like flowers ; the resemblance 
ceases in the other two species of Convolvulus, 
C. arvensis, which has often prostrate stems, 
and flowers beautifully variegated with pink 
and white; and C. soldanella, the Sea Bindweed, 
which has a short decumbent stem, and a hand- 
some pink flower with yellow bands. We 
may add respecting C. sepzum, though not a 
Parasite, that if unchecked in its growth, it 
threatens to exterminate other plants, by the 
multiplied development of its underground 
stems, and its strangling clasp of everything 
round which it twines. 
The only other plants of this Order are the 
Dodders, of which we have 3 native species, 
and two others, the Flax Dodder and the 
Lucerne Dodder, introduced. It is the habit 
