CHAPTER XX. 

 Tab. XXXVI. — cuscuta europjea. 



This plant is a native of our own country, and is found in 

 hedges, on clover, or on beans, vs^here it proves exceedingly 

 injurious to the crop. It flovrers from June to August. The 

 drawling w^as taken from a specimen which grew in the Physic 

 Gardens, Oxford. It is represented twining about some net- 

 tles, on which it annually attaches itself. 



" Of all the parasitical plants, the dodder (cuscuta) tribe 

 are the most singular, trusting for their nourishment entirely 

 to those vegetables about which they twine, and into whose 

 tender bark they insert small villous tubercles serving as 

 roots, the original root of the dodder withering away entire- 

 ly, as soon as the young stem has fixed itself to any other 

 plant ; so that its connexion with the earth is cut off." Eng- 

 lish Botany, p. 55. 



