DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS 138 



c. C. lute'olus Gray. Stems often twining over high bushes, 

 smooth, blooming at all seasons. Peduncles as long as the leaves, 

 ivith a pair of linear or lanceolate bracts a little below the flower (no 

 bracts directly nnder the calyx). Corolla pale cream-color, or 

 (when growing near the coast) light or deep rose-color. Through- 

 out California. 



n. CUS'CUTA, Dodder, Love Vine 



Parasitic plants with yellow or orange stems, scales in place of 

 leaves, and densely clustered small white flowers. Calyx 5-cleft 

 or parted. Corolla bell-shaped or tubular. Stamens inserted 

 on the throat of the corolla, with fringed scales below. Ovary 

 2-celled, containing 4 ovules. Styles 2, distinct. Embryo with- 

 out cotyledons, thread-like, spirally coiled in hard endosperm. 

 The seeds germinate in the soil, but do not form roots there. 

 Instead, they attach themselves to the other plants by means of 

 little roots, and take all their nourishment from their hosts. 



a. C. sali'na Engelm. Salt-marsh Dodder. Corolla having a 

 shallow bell-shaped tid)e. Capsule pointed. This grows in salt 

 marshes on plants belonging to the Chenopodiacece. 



b. C. subinclu'sa Durand & Hilgard. Corolla ivith a rather long, 

 urn-shaped tube. Capsule conical. This grows on shrubs or coarse 

 herbs. 



HYDROPHYLLA'CE^. Baby-eyes Family 



Herbs, or rarely shrubs, Avith alternate leaves without stip- 

 ules (rarely opposite). Flowers in coiled spikes or racemes, 

 usually showy. Calyx 5-parted, or of 5 separate sepals. 

 Corolla 5-lobed. Stamens on the corolla tube, and alternate 

 with its lobes and shorter. Styles 2 or 2-cleft. Capsule 1 or 

 2 celled, with 2 parietal placentae, splitting along the back of 

 each valve. 



I. HYDROPHYL'LUM, Waterleaf 



Herbs from fleshy, running rootstocks. Leaves large, alter- 

 nate, pinnately compound. Flowers white or blue, in close or 

 open cymes, on long peduncles. Corolla bell-shaped, with a 

 honey-gland at the base of each lobe. Stamens and style 

 longer than the corolla. Filaments bearded at the iniddle. 

 Styles 2-cleft. Ovary 1-celled. 



