Monography of the North American Cuscutinee. 77 
II. LepiwancuHe. 
‘Last autumn I discovered a second species of this genus, which 
imposes the necessity of altering the generic character. It must 
now read: Capsule 2-celled, 1—4-seeded. 
The facies of the genus refers principally to the first species ; 
the second has more the appearance of a Cuscuta, but the flowers 
are also closely sessile. 
1. Leripancue Composirarum.—sStems before flowering orange 
colored, soon decaying. (Cuscuta glomerata, Choisy, Mem. Soc. 
Nat. Hist. Genev., ex adnot. A. Gray.) 
2. LePIDANCHE ADPRESSA, 7. sp.—E lowers sessile, glomerate, 
5-parted ; calycine scales seven to nine, imbricated, appressed, 
ovate or orbiculate, slightly crenulate, the outer ones the largest ; 
tube of the corolla cylindric, a little longer than the calyx, twice 
as long as the oblong obtuse spreading lobes; stamens shorter 
than the limb; scales laciniately pinnatifid, convergent, covering 
the ovary; ovary with the stylopodium equaling the styles; cap- 
sule globose, shortly acuminate, covered by the marcescent co- 
rolla; 2-4-seeded. (Cuscuia compacta, Choisy, l.c., ex adnot. 
A. Gray. C. coronata, Beyr. ap. Hook. ?) 
I discovered this species last autumn, in the fertile shady woods 
on the banks of the Mississippi, amongst a most luxuriant growth of 
vines and underbrush, on Bignonia radicans, Rhus toxicodendron, 
Laurus Benzoin, Vitis, Cornus, etc. Choisy describes it from spe- 
cimens ccllected in Alabama. 
The flowers are closely sessile, but distinct, and not in such 
dense clusters asin L. Compositarum. 'The glomerules either 
form a continuous line round the stem of the parent plant, or they 
are separate, consisting of from five to ten or more greenish white 
flowers. The filiform stout stems are whitish, and do not en- 
tirely disappear at the flowering time. ‘The capsules are gener- 
aily 2-seeded; but as they are not so crowded as in the other 
species, they are also found 3—4-seeded. 
Plate VI, Vol. xumr.—The tube of the flower, fig. 4, ought to 
be alittle shorter. The lobes of the corolla, fig. 18, are tgp wide 
at base; they should be more oblong. ‘The ovary, fig. 24 should 
be depressed like that in fig. 28. The calyx-segments ought to 
‘be marked in fig. 25. 
