100 SYSTEMATIC ARRANGEMENT OF THE SPECIES 
gulo arcte sessili late ovatis cuspidatis membranaceis adpressis sensim in sepala exteriora similia et interiora longiora 
obtusiora tubum cylindracev-obconicum «quantia transeuntibus ; staminibus brevioribus, antheris oblongo-linearibus 
filamenta subulata eequantibus ; squamis ovatis laciniato-fimbriatis medio tubo adnatis faucem excedentibus conniven- 
tibus ; stylis capillaceis ovario ovato-conico multo longioribus exsertis; capsula ovata apiculata 1-2-sperma corolle 
rudimentis calyptrata ; seminibus subglobosis lenticularibusve, hilo oblongo abbreviato. 
Fields and wastes on the Rio Grande, on Artemisia Ludoviciana, Patients ciliatus and other weeds, from El 
Paso, Wright ! 518 (coll. 1849) and 1628 (coll. 1852), Bigelow! Thurber! down to Presidio del Norte, Parry !— 
sters 5-6 lines in diameter, consisting of 8-12 flowers ; or sometimes small, only 2-3-flowered ; occasionally con- 
tinuous, in the manner of the next species ; flowers 24 lines long, similar in shape to those of the two last species, but 
osely sessile, in other respects much like the next, but bracts appressed, not squarrose. Seeds 0.6-0.7 line long ; 
subglobose when the capsule has only 1 seed, compressed when it contains 2, oblique but scarcely rostrate, with a very 
short re or transverse hilum, almost a mere dot. 
. C. atomErata, Choisy! Cuse. 184, t. 4, f. 1; DC. Prod. IX. 458. Lepidanche Compositarum, Engelm.! Sill. 
a: XLII. p. 344, t. 6, f. 30-35. C. Americana (monstruosa), Hook. in Comp. Bot. Mag. 1.173. C. paradoza, Rafin. 
Ann. Nat. 1820, p. 13, & DC. 1. c. 461 ?— Prairie regions of central North America, on Helianthus, Solidago, Vernonia, 
Silphium and other tall Composite ; rarely parasitic on any other plant : from Indiana, Dr. Clapp! to Illinois and Mis- 
souri, Drummond! Engelm.! Riehl! 15 & 16; Kansas, Hayden! the upper Arkansas region, Fendler! 657 ; south- 
ward to the Canadian, Bigelow! and to the Liano in western Texas, Lindheimer! Mr. Riebl found it very destructive 
-to the pear seedlings in his nursery. — This, the most striking of all Cuscute, has been so fully described 
that very little is to be added, The glomerules almost always form two parallel lines on both sides of the [511 (61) ] 
stem, wherever it is attached to the stem of the nurse and somewhat flattened, rarely in detached clusters, 
where the stem is free ; these clusters of flowers run completely together and form at last a continuous spiral coil, 6-10 
lines in thickness, and several inches in length ; the orange-red filiform stems have by this time entirely disappeared. — 
Flowers 24-3 lines long, surrounded by numerous squarrose bracts; lobes of corolla obtuse, not acute ; stylopodium 
larger (Sill. J. 1. ¢. f. 33), or smaller (1. c. f. 34) than ovary proper ; flowers often sterile ; seeds 2 or mostly 1 in each 
capsule, 0.5 line long, oval, more or less compressed, very slightly rostrate, small oval hilum transverse 
esque was no doubt the first to distinguish this species, and his name, a very appropriate one, would have 
the precedence over the later ones, if he, by his very incorrect description, had not enveloped the whole in so much 
obscurity, that Choisy’s later name is to be preferr 
66. C. compacta, Jussieu! in Hb. ; Choisy ! Cusc. 185, t. 4, f. 2; DC. Prod. IX. 458 ; Engelm.! Bost. Journ. 
N. Hist. V. 225. (C. remotiflora and C. Fruticum, Bertol. Misc. bot. X. 29. C. Americana, auct. var. C. imbricata, 
Nutt.! in Hb. C. coronata, Beyr.! in Hb. — From the banks of the St. Lawrence in the State of New York south- 
ward, and on the Alleghany mountains from Pennsylvania to Georgia and Alabama, almost entirely on shrubs, such as 
Corylus, Alnus, Andromeda, etc.; only accidentally on herbaceous plants. —Clusters in fruit often 3-1} inches in 
diameter, continuous and thickest where the stem is twined around the nurse, but also abundant where it is free ; tube 
of corolla slender, lacini oblong ; dead corolla raised on top of the acutish capsule, giving it a pointed appearance ; 
seeds 1-2, rarely 3-4, in each capsule, 0.8-1.0 line long, oval oblique, lenticular or carinate inside, scarcely rostrate ; 
hilum small, oblong, perpendicular or transverse. 
Var. 8. ADprEssA, Lepidanche adpressa, Engelm.! in Sill. Journ. XLV. p. 77. C. acaulis, Raf. Ann. Nat. 1820, 
p. 13 ?—Shady woods in rich bottom-lands along streams in the Mississippi valley, on Cephalanthus, Cornus, Salic, 
Bignonia, Vitis, Rhus Toxicodendron, Smilax, and some herbaceous plants ; western Virginia to Illinois and Missouri, 
and southward to western Louisiana and Texas. —Tube of ii ag wider, more deeply immersed in the calyx, lobes 
broader, capsule thicker, not so much pointed, and corolla not so much raised above it, so that the clusters, especially 
in fruit, appear more obtuse ; seeds of same size as in a., usually 2-4 in a capsule, compressed, scarce 
carinate, with a longer, transverse hilum. The difference in the seeds appears to be constant, and proves [512 (62)] 
again that in this genus not much reliance can be put on characters derived from them. 
Sect. 7. LOBOSTIGMA. 
Styles of nearly equal length, clavate towards the nae stigmatose top, which is divided into several unequal 
orbicular lobes, and depressed in the centre; capsule bacea’ 
Inflorescence a loose fasciculate cyme, bracts at the sr of the long pedicels; corolla enveloping and covering 
the capsule. 
The only species of this section is a native of Tasmania. 
67. C. Tasmanica, n.sp.: caulibus capillaceis ; cymis laxifloris umbellato-fasciculatis compositis ; pedicellis 
elongatis clavatis in calycem turbinatum profunde fissum abeuntibus; floribus glandulosis ; lobis calycis oblongis 
obtusis tubum equantibus ; laciniis oblongis obtusis patulis seu dont reflexis tubo longioribus ; staminibus 
