ENGELMANN—CUSCUTA. 471 
very distinct species of the flax fields of Europe, ae, 
sia! Sweden! Germany! France! England! Ireland! Spa 
= !) ge a into the Canary Islands Dice Finlay) ) 
t (Kralik! Figari!) and has als 
oo parts of the United ey I ery ma no ee 
mens from Asia, but Roxburgh’s C. aggregata, Fl. Ind. I. 
447, “introduced into the botanic garden of Calcutta with 
flax fr ad,” is most probably the same 
The Surscuars relied on for a generic separation of this 
species from Cuscuta, ee pegs or are founded on mis- 
take. The calyx is deeply 5-lobed, not 5-sepaled; the cap- 
sule is constructed fae as in the allied species ; the dissep- 
iment is complete till, at maturity, the larger, lower, ee 
separates from the upper substylar po rtion. The in 
stylar aperture penetraies into the capsule only at full mate. 
rity by aslit parallel to the Borel ec and sometimes by a 
second transverse one. The stigma is, at the flowering peri- 
od, almost vive as long as ag style, and at base of the same 
thickness, slightly taperin n obtuse point ; only in fruit, 
when me yl is a is stigma has the appearance of 
these have pedicelled, and not, like our species, slereiy sessile 
flowers. It is not Eapraleele that it originally came from 
or from Egypt. , 
Sec. 2. Epistigma: 
Styles n 
of the ovary 
Ported by a a single % bract | 
gegen here are all Asiatic; C. Arabica ex- 
say mto Egypt, where it tages fe, PP the: most oneyne 
