2 Mr. Ch. C. Babington on some species of Cuscuta. 
tibus apice rotundatis fimbriatis convergentibus basi approximatis, 
stigmatibus filiformibus. (Pl. 1. fig. 2.) 
Calyx bell-shaped, thin, shorter than the tube of the corolla, 
usually tinged with red; segments broad, ovate-apiculate, longer 
than their tube. Tube of the corolla cylindrical, rather shorter 
than the ovate-acute spreading segments of the limb. Anthers 
roundish-oblong, without an apiculus, and even notched at the 
end. Corona closely adpressed to the tube of the corolla below ; 
its processes (usually called ‘ scales”) nearly as long as the tube 
of the corolla, broad, rounded, fimbriated and converging at the 
end, scarcely narrowed below, separated from each other by deep 
narrow interspaces, which are not rounded at the bottom, and the 
membrane at that point is closely adpressed to the corolla. Occa- 
sionally, as in some specimens from Norfolk, the divisions between 
the processes disappear, and the corona becomes a deeply-lobed 
membrane, the lobes of which exactly resemble the upper parts 
of the usual processes, and are fringed almost to their base, the 
line of connexion between the corona and corolla remaining un- 
altered. In one instance this change had extended still further, 
and a rounded emarginate projection occupied the place of the 
usual division, having down its centre an appearance of being 
thickened: unfortunately this curious specimen has been lost 
during its transmission for the inspection of a friend. “ Germen 
spherical.” Stigmas simple. 
The figures and descriptions of C. Epithymum differ so much 
from each other that I have considered it advisable to omit all 
synonyms, and give the authority for the name (Murray in Linn. 
Syst. Veg. ed. 13. 140) with considerable hesitation. The plant 
described above is probably that of Smith (Eng. Fl. i. 25), al- 
though the figure in ‘Eng. Bot.’ (t. 55.) will admit of doubt. 
It seems also to agree sufficiently with the description given by 
Bertoloni (Fl. Ital. i. 69); and is, I believe, identical with a spe- 
cimen from the neighbourhood of Hamburg, kindly sent to me 
by Mr. W. Sonder of that city. It is worthy of remark, that in 
that specimen the anthers have an apiculus, and that I have never 
detected such a structure in British specimens. 
The error committed in my former paper in describing the co- 
ronal processes as “ spathulatis basi distantibus” may perhaps 
admit of some excuse when it is remarked that, if a specimen is 
softened in water, spread out and then allowed to become dry in 
that position, the processes shrink in such a manner as quite to 
agree with that description. It is hoped that the figure of the 
interior of the flower now given will enable botanists to ascertain 
the similarity or difference of their plants from that described by 
me, as it is the opinion of some botanists that there is still, not- 
withstanding the separation of C. Trifoli and C. approximata, 
