106 COLLECTED DESCRIPTIONS OF CUSCUTA. 
From THe Boraniscue Zeirunc, Vou. 1V. No. 16, Aprin 17, 1846. 
C. cuputata, Engelm. in litt. : caule capillaceo; glomerulis multifloris, capitatis, sessilibus ; floribus arcte ses- 
silibus, pentameris ; calycis campanulati, cupulati lobis transversim ovatis, apice carinatis, abrupte cuspidatis ; tubo 
corollz campanulato, calyce breviore, lacinias limbi ovatas, acutiusculas, erectas, demum patentes equante ; staminibus 
limbo brevioribus, filamentis cicero antheris orbicularibus ; squamulis truncatis, apice fimbriatis, convergentibus ; 
stylis cum stigmatibus ovarium globoso-depressum duplo superantibus, apice ~iesaiana 3 stigmatibus stylorum 
longitudine ; corolla cireum am globosam circumscissam marcescente. 
Diese, der C. Epithymum niiher als der C. Europea verwandte Art, stints von gy am Caucasus, von Lede- 
bour am Altai gesammelt. Choisy begreift sie mit Unrecht unter C. major. — A. 
From Gray’s ManvaAt, ed. 1, Boston and Cambridge, 1848. 
2. C. cHLorocarRPA, Engelm.: low, orange-colored ; flowers almost sessile, clustered ; corolla mostly 4-cleft, 
open-bell-shaped, the tube about the length of the acute lobes and calyx teeth, remaining persistent around the base of the 
depressed pod, the scales cut-fringed or cleft (rather small) ; stamensas long as the lobes. (C. Polygonorum, Engelm.) — 
Low grounds, covering Polygona and other herbs, Ohio and westward. 
3. C. reNuIFLoRA, Engelm.: much branched, twining high, pale-colored; flowers at length peduncled 
and in rather loose cymes; tube of the corolla cylindrical fatatticies after flowering), twice the length bd = obtuse [351] 
spreading lobes and of the ovate obtuse calyx-lobes, in fruit borne on the summit of the depressed pod ; ate, 
cut-fringed ; stamens shorter than the lobes of the corolla. (C. Cephalanthi, Bact breiak s common through 
the Western States, on Cephalanthus and various tall herbs. 
From Gray’s MAnvuat, 5 ed., New York, 1868. 
3. C. INFLEXA, Engelm. : flowers peduncled, in umbel-like cymes, 1” long ; tube of the mostly ihe oo [378] 
as long as the ovate acutish and minutely crenate erect inflexed lobes and the acute fected calyx lobes ; scales 
and few-toothed, appressed ; pod depressed, somewhat umbonate, of a thicker texture, brown, its top eee cn the 
remains of the corolla. (C. Coryli, Engelm. C. wmbrosa, Beyrich, and Ed. 2.) — Prairies and barrens, in rather dry 
soil, on Hazels, Ceanothus, and other shrubs or herbs ; from Western Virginia and Illinois southward and westward. 
From Parry’s BoranicAL OBSERVATIONS IN SouTHERN Uran, No. 5. (Amer. Nar., Vor. 1X. 1875.) 
205. CUSCUTA DENTICULATA, n. sp. : stems very slender, hair-like ; flowers few, in loose glomerules, on [348] 
short pedicels, small (scarcely one line long), white ; lobes of the deeply divided globular calyx almost orbicular, 
overlapping, concave, thinly membranaceous, denticulate, covering the short campanulate (finally urceolate) tube of 
the corolla ; lobes broadly oval, obtuse, spreading, at last reflexed, as long as the tube ; scales narrow, denticulate, reach- 
ing to the base of the ovate, almost sessile anthers ; styles slender, as long as the conical, pointed ovary, bearing slightly 
thickened (scarcely capitate) stigmas ; aaa derveteel by the withering corolla, indehiscent (?), enclosing one or two 
seeds, — St. George, Utah, on shrubs and herbs (Coleogyne, Biscutella) in arid soil; the first addition to our Cuscuta- 
flora since my synopsis was published, 16 years ago. Apparently allied to C. applanata, Eng., of Arizona, but with 
much amsaller flowers and an acute, not depressed ovary, different calyx, ete. 
C. Californica, var. (’) squamigera, Engelm. Cuse. p. 499. On Sueda diffusa, Watson. Originally found in 
the same ae by Remy and in Arizona sii Dr. Palmer, always on saline herbs ; no collector has chiaiciet the fruit 
as yet. 
From THE Borany or Carrrornia, Vot. I. Cambridge, 1876. 
3 SALINA, Engelm. n. sp.: stems slender; flowers (14 to 24 lines long) pedicelled in loose eymes, [536] 
shorter and wider than in the next [C. subinelusa]; lobes of the calyx ovate-lanceolate, acute, as long 
mens collected in Alabama and Georgia; the notice in der and mostly smaller flowers. The tube of the corolla 
Silliman’s Journal, Vol. XLIV. p. 195, must “ayers — exceeds the compact seales of the calyx ata iis, and is 
— It is very near Cuseuta (Lepidanche) ad, much narrower in proportion to its length; it gives, there- 
which thus far has only been found on the bottom Py of fore, to the capsule which it covers a much more pointed 
the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers. This is again a remark. appearance, though the capsule itself is fa globose. This 
able instance of two nearly allied species; one growing in the appearance of the vestiges of the corolla on the capsule dis- 
mountainous region of the Southern States, the in in tinguishes this species from C. adpressa just after flowering. 
the western lowlands. Analogies offer in Buptisia alba and | The corolla appears to be more membranaceous than in the 
leucantha, Phacelia Jimbriata and Purshii, and others. The western species, and remains whitish when well dali in 
ountain species is distinguished from its western relative the herbarium ; the other usually turns reddish-b 
by the closer and compacter glomerules, sad much more slen- 
