Monography of the North American Cuscutinee. 73 
Arr. VIII.—Corrections and Additions to the Monography of 
Cuscutinea, in Vol. XLITI. of this Journal; by GroreE 
Eneeitmann, M. D.* 
A GaREFUL re-examination of this tribe during the past season, 
as well as the increased opportunity of examining specimens from 
different parts of North America, have discovered some errors, and 
made some corrections and additions necessary, which I should, 
indeed, prefer to withhold for the present, and subject to the test 
of another season’s study, if it were not important to correct such 
errors as soon as possible. A fuller description of the new spe- 
cies, with figures, I defer to another time. 
Tam now convinced, that, although many Cuscute prefer some 
plants to others, yet there is no constancy in this respect, but the 
same species often grows upon a great variety of widely different 
plants. I did wrong, therefore, to name them from the genera 
upon which they grew; and I should much prefer to see the 
names of C. Cephalanthi changed into C. tenuiflora, C. Corylt 
into C. incurva, C. Saururi into C. umbrosa, Beyr.? C. Polygo- 
norum into C. chlorocarpa, and Lepidanche Compositarum into 
EL. squarrosa, if they had not yet been published. 
I. Cuscuta, Linn. 
1. Cuscura CepHatantut.—Mostly 4-parted ; frequently only 
3-parted. 
2. Cuscuta Coryvit.—F ound in many places n near St. Louis, on 
Hazel, Willow, Desmodium, Teucrium, Solidago, ete. ‘The long 
styles observed in some dried specimens of this as well as other 
species, are the consequence of a continued vegetation in the 
plant-press!' The variety @. must therefore be stricken out. 
Flowers frequently 5-parted. 
3. Cuscura vuLervaca.—Certainly the most common species. 
The stylopodium is very remarkable in the living specimens 
which I have examined; and the capsule is oval, even a little 
pointed, less globose than any other of our Cuscute; but I am 
not prepared to say that this is the case with all varieties of this 
* The characters of the new species, é&c. here described, have been published in 
the London Journal of Botany for April, 1843, as an appendix to the original mo- 
nograph, there reproduced.—Eps. 
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