VASCULAR PLANTS OF NORTH DAKOTA Ska 
Family 103. CUSCUTACEAE Dumort. Anal. Fam. 20. (1829). 
EPITHYMUM Plinius XXI: 8, also XXVI: 4, etc. Epithy- 
mon Diose. IV: 179. 
Cassytha Tragus, Hist. 196. (1552), not of ancient Romans. 
Cuscuta Dorsten, Tour., Linn. Gen. no. 170, Engelm. Cusc. 
(1859). : 
841. Epithymum arvense (Beyrich), Nwd. & LI. 
Cuscuta arvensis Beyrich; Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 77. (1834). 
Kulm (Brenckle). 
842. Epithymum plattense (A. Nels.) Nwd. & Ll. 
Cuscuta Platiensis A. Nels.’ Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 26: 131. 
(1899). 
Peninsula of Lake Ibsen, Pleasant Lake, Dunsieth, Jamestown, 
Minot. 
843. Epithymum Cephalanthi (Engelm.) Nwd. & Ll. 
Cuscuia Cephalanthti Engelm. Am. Journ. Sci. 43: 336. (1842). 
‘Towner. 
844. Epithymum Coryli (Engelm.) Nwd. & Ll. 
Cuscuta Coryli Engelm. Am. Journ. Sci. 43: 337. (1842). 
Turtle Mountains, Jamestown; Fort Ransom (O. A. Stevens). 
1217. Epithymum indecorum (Choisy) Nwd. & LIl. 
Cuscuta indecora Choisy, Mem. Soc. Gen. 9: 278. (1841). 
Fort Totten.) 
1218. Epithymum Gronovii (Willd.) Nwd. & LIl. 
Cuscuta Gronovit Willd.; R. & S. Syst. 6 :205. (1820). 
‘“Fargo....C. Plattensis seems closely related to C. Gronovit 
which it replaces west of the Red River valley, according to material 
at hand.’’*) 
*Vide Notes on the distribution and growth of North Dakota Cuscutae 
in Am. Journ. Bot. 3: 185—188. (1916), by Prof. O. A. Stevens. 
Family 104. POLEMONIACEAE DC. Fl. Franc. 3: 645. 
(1805). 
FONNA Adanson, Fam., Pl. 214. (1763). 
Phlox was used by Theophrastus as Phloginon or Phlogion 
for a Lychnis (acc. to Linnaeus). Anguillara called the Phlox 
Theoph. an Amaranth (Celosia?), others a pansy. Plukenett, 
Ray changed the name to Lychnidia |. Lychnides. Linnaeus took 
up Phlox, and he says in Hort. Cliff. 63: ‘‘ Phlox est nomen quoddam 
Theophrasti desumptum a floris flameo igneoque colore hine ad 
Lychnidum a plurimis relatum familiam quod cum ibi superfluum 
