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ern Asiatic form, which I had ee distinguished under 
the name of C. cupulata, occu the Caucasus, the Altai, 
eems, throughout ‘Si ibis: (Ledebour! Godet! 
Becker! Karelin! 1721, ete.) ; flowers smaller in dense but 
small heads; calyx large, loose, almost entire, with broad and 
short lobes ; scales comparatively large and incurve 
Var. 8. ScHIRAZIANA ; traziana, Boissier! diag. or. 1.9, 
has loose and few flowered heads, rather m aceous 
flowers with the lobes of the deeply divided calyx and the 
roto pete and acute. e specimens examined by me, the 
that Boissier described, were collected in Persia by 
Kotschy! and distributed under 118 a 318. In some the 
lacinie are larger, in others shorter; scales larger and entire; 
or smaller, truncate and even bifid. —_ = gathered a speci- 
men of this form in Portugal on Ulex nanus, which has even 
longer lobes and a more deeply divided | calyx than the Per- 
p- 36, i 141; C. E isiaiotnntenn, bbe n Pl Bourge au, 1430. 
—This, ane with C. calyci Web other form o 
this s — seems to be the only ve Cuscuta Ca- 
= 
ae from Xan C. Epilinum has 
been introduced cen “Tt has been collected by Webb! 
Bourgeau! 18, 426, 459, 1430; De la sia at Bolle! and 
others. I have seen the same form rtugal, Deakin ! 
Welwitsch! 192.—In C. Tipsetncliaen the lobes of the calyx 
are a - completely united as in C. Epi mum. 
6, Tenorn; C. planiflora, ee Sil. FL. Neap. p. 128 
and Flor. Neap. II. p. 250, t. 220, f.3.—If I am not mistak- 
en, Kunze (Flora, 1846, p. 655, in Be Willk. nro. 303) was 
the only botanist who recognized Tenore’s plant; every oth- 
er author has bestowed the name fn some other forms of our 
plant or on some other species. C. planiflora, Koch! Germ. p. 
570, and Reichenb. Fl. Germ. eae nro. 2069, are forms of 
C. Epith ymum.—Tenore’s plant is most common in Sicily and 
north Africa, extending to “cng Canary Islands, to Spain, 
southern France, Italy and the Mediterranean islands, to 
Greece and Egypt, and undoubtedly also to Asia Minor and 
Syria. Itis one of the smallest Cuscute, the heads are com- 
king in the fresh or ed one. Flowers often less than 
1 line in length; grains very rough, 0. 4 lines in diame- 
— alba of most authors, but of Presl; 
‘ m not 
cuta, DesM. Et. 41 is a eee founded on an immature 
ith 
