13 ENGELMANN—CUSCUTA. [463] 
guished by the loose glomerules; pedicels aslong as calyx; 
lobes of calyx obtusish, scarcely as long as tube of corolla; 
son and Herb. nes = rent.—the only African form of the 
r. & ANGUSTATA 3 ai dis istinguish by this name an Italian 
which assumes diffrent shee gy. described under different form, 
names, It has and elongated lobes of the corolla 
and usually also of th the : halla whic is sleek longer than 
the tube of the corolla; the flowers are numerous and ses- 
sile, or ordinarily more or less pedicelled. Three varieties may 
i 
with a ge smaller Rowers, membrana- 
ceous sala This is the true C. alba, Presl! Del. Prag. 87, 
also of Tenore and ace ae Ttalian botanists, while most 
authors apply this name to the original C. planiflora, Ten. 
ied b 
thor, is very erroneous; but his own specimens, on Zizyphus 
ee in his collection at Prague, and in the imperial Her. 
arium at Vienna, leave no doubt about the identity of the 
plant. C. subulata, Tineo! in Gussone FI. Sic. II. 888, is ex- 
han in any other form 
j gin nap on <i pedicels with —_ ca- 
Iya; slender elongated tube, narrowly lanceolate acum 
lacinie, distinctly subulate filame ents, an yes rather small ace 
i 
In vat _ of Medicago near Padua, Visi 
ec. rubella, — Ae — oe a 
thicker nedabe This is C. planiflora, Koch fi, Gorn. ~ Dea 
Et. many ante: authors, but ‘not of Tenore. It h 
an 
often been collected in southern Tyrol on were ies: 
sia, etc.; it also occurs in the Abruzzi and in 
Var. « Korscnyr; C. “goose | tudes p- 56, 
(not C. Kotschyana Boiss); C. microcephala, Welwitsch! 
in se or. Lusitan, nro. 1048.—This plant is pee 
the original Epithymum of the old botanists, as it often 
oO us and other small frutescent esioon: 
It is well characterized by rather thick red stems, the 
to theories, nor languages in the closet. e actual necessities 
ofa bet ving people e are not tones ty aad tale te little as these 
prevail in the formation of nations, the present fashionable theory ot po- 
litical nationalities rtd mtrary notwithstanding. 
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