PL ex, cor. 30. CONVOLVULACEiE. 103. Convol. 345 



Root creeping ; stem angular ; leaves rather bakl ; pe- 

 duncles bracteated in the middle ; flowers flesh-colour, 

 sweet-scented. 



2. Convolvulus miriculatus. "Eared convolvulus. 



Leaves linear, hastate, pointed ; barbs not nicked ; pe- 

 duJicles 4-sided, 1-flowered ; IradecB lanceolate. 



Convolvulus cirvensls rninimns, Raii Syn. 276. 

 Convolvulus arvcnsis /3, Lin. S. P. 232. 

 Convolvulus auriculatus, Lamarck Encyc. Me.th, 540. 



Hedges; perennial; June. 



heaves sTid flowers much smaller than those of C. ar- 

 vensis. 



B. CuscuTJE. Ovary \ \ capsule opening tranversely, two- 

 celled ; corculum spiral ; cotyledons ; plant leafless, pa- 

 rasitic. 



III. 104. CUSCUTA. Matthiolus. Dodder. 

 Calyx 4 or 5-cut; corolla funnelshape; tube short; limb 



4 or 5-cut; stamens 5; filaments inserted in the mouth, 

 with a scale near the bottom ; stigmata 2, pointed ; capsule 

 2-celled, 2-seeded, cut round. — Herb leafless, twining, pa- 

 rasitic ; flowers sessile, aggregate, capitate ; hractea 1 . 



Cuscuta minor. Small dodde?: 



Flowers sessile; nectariferous scale crenate; stigmata 

 pointed. 



Cuscuta major, Raii Syn. 281. 



Cuscuta sive cassuthe, Ger. em. 577, 



Cuscuta, Park: 10. 



Cuscuta eiiropasa |8, Lin. S. P. 180. 



Cuscuta europasa, Huds. Fl. Angl. 104. 



Cuscuta epithymum, Lin, Sys. Veg. a Murray, 167. 



Cuscuta campanulata, Stokes Jiot. Mat. Med. 239. 



Parasitic on heath ; perennial ; August. 



Stem twisted : floivers crowded ; calyx reddish ; corolla 

 white. — Herb purgative; but believed to partake, in some 

 measure, of the virtues of the plants on v/hich it grows. 



IV. 105. CASSYTHA. Gesner. Hellweed. 

 Calyx 5-cut ; corolla bellshape, 5-cut ; stame?is 5 ; fila- 

 ments inserted in the throat of the corolla, naked ; 5/ /o-- 

 mala 2, pointed; capside cut round, 2-celled, 2-seeded. — 

 S^em annual, leafless, twining, parasitic ;^0it'e?-5 peduncled, 

 aggregate, capitate; hractea 1. 



