LXIV. 



CUSCUTA EUROP^A. 

 Greater Dodder. 



Clans V. Pentandhia. — Order II. Digynia. 



Nat. Ord. Con'volvulacejE. 



Gen. Char. Calyx four or five cleft. Corolla campanu- 

 Jate, four or five lobed. Capaule two-celled, bursting 

 all round transversely at the base ; cells two-seeded. 



Spec. Char. Flowers sessile. Corolla destitute of scales, 

 four or five cleft. Stigma acute. 



SYXOXTMES, 



Greek .... e^slsay^n ? Theophrastus. x.a,3s\jia. 



f Cuscuta major. Bauh. Pin. 217. ■??«" Syn. 281. 

 Cuscuta sive Cassutha. Ger. Em. 577. 



, Cassutha sive Cuscutha. Fucks. 343. c 132. 



I Epithymbra, Epithymnin et Cassitha Plinii. Lob. Obs. 233. 



j Androsaces, vulgo Cusaita. Trag. 810. 



I. Cuscuta Europaea. Liji. Sp. PL 180. Fl. Brit. 282. 

 French..., Cuscute ; Cuscute d'Europe ; Goutte du lin. 

 Italian .... Cuscute ; Androsace. 

 Spaiiish . . .. Cuscuta. 

 German.... Flacksseide ; Fitzkrant. 

 Dutch .... Schorfte ; Filtkruid ; Wrange. 

 Stceduh . . . Silke. 

 Bohemian... Kokotice. 

 Polish .... Kania Przedza ; Pawiliza. 

 Russ Pawiliza. 



Descriptiok. — Dodder is a parasitical plant, furnished with a 

 fibrous root when it first springs up from the seed, but which 

 soon perishes and leaves the plant to provide for itself. The 

 leafless and lierbaceous stems twine around flax, nettles, liemp, 



