ENGELMANN—CUSCUTA. 509 
southern Alleghanies from Maryland and Virginia to South 
Carolina, Rugel! Buckley! Gray & Sullivant! Curtis !— 
Nearly allied with the last, but flowers | ‘and wider, 2-3 
lines long, scales comparatively small, deeply incised-fringed ; 
ovary elongated, bottle-shaped ; capsule, arith 1 the elongated 
2-pointed beak, 21-3 lines long; seeds 1-4, se ori, ie y de- 
veloped 1-14 lines long, obliquely obovate, co cari- 
nate on the inside, bluntly rostrate, bier reticulate, 
with a short oblong linear mostly transverse hilum. 
§ 3. Lepidanche. 
Flowers pedicelled or, mostly, closely sessile ; free, similar to the 
sinned ng sterile oe imbricate ; ovary capsule more or less 
conic, thickened and fleshy at the apex; withered corolla covering the 
capsule like a = Weed scege tines, Eng. Sill. Jour. 43, p. 343. 
* Flowers pedicelled, my paniculate. 
62. C. cusprpata, Engelm. ! in Bost. Journ. n. h., V. 
p. 224; Bot. Zeit. 1846, p. o1—-Parasitie on Ambrosia 
and many other herbs, on wet or dry prairies from southern 
and western Texas, Lindheimer! 125 and 277, Wright! 
Schott! Thurber! ane the bn ir Arkansas, Trécul! Fendler! 
N. Mex. 659, low! rr a to the sandhills 
the Platte, Gaydak ioe! A etal an 
oosely 
see use; ovary not ce, ee Ded. 3 
oval, with a thick Saceatua: capsule ‘thick and glandu- 
lous at the € apex; seeds rarely more than 0.4 lime on co 
vate, compressed, rostrate, with a very short oval mostly 
transverse hilum. The form from Platte —— mal 
est flowers, and almost orbicular sepals. 
63. C, BRACTEATA, N. sp.: a snare 
cymis Smereign or: ulatis 3 a0 ned cell sque 
