lopo APPENDIX. 



D I G Y N I A 



CUSCUTA. Gen. pi. 1^0, 

 Cat. 4-fidus. Cor. \-petala. Cap/. 2-locularis. 

 europ^a. cUSCUTA floribus feffilibiis. Sp. pi. i8o. (Ger. 

 emac. p. 577. Oeder. Ban, t. 199. opt.) 

 Dodder. Anglis. 



It grows upon furze, heath, nettles, flax, thyme, 



and other plants. Upon furze bufhes near 



Mollance in Galloway. Dr. Burgefs. G. VII. 



VIII. 



It is a parafitical plant of a very Angular nature, 



deftitute of leaves and roots. 

 It confifts only of red, fucculent, thread-like 

 ftalks, twilling about the plant on which it 

 grows in a fpiral diredtion, contrary to the fun's 

 motion, and drawing its nourifhment from it 

 by fmall fucking jj>^pi//^, fix'd into the pores of 

 the bark or rind, thereby exhaufting the fofter- 

 plant of its juices, imbibing its virtues, and of- 

 ten deftroying it. 

 The flowers grow in thick feflile cluflers on the 

 fides of the ftalks, and at the angles of the 

 branches, of a whitifli or pale-red color i the 

 calyx and corolla of each divided generally into 

 four, but ibmetimes five fegments. 

 The feed has no cotyledons or feminal lobes, buC 

 Ihoots out a fpiral thread without roots. 



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