Cuscuta.'\ 



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1. C. septum Br. (g7'eat C, or IL) ; stem climbing, leaves 

 sagittate their lobes truncate, peduncles 4-sided single-flow- 

 ered, bracteas heart-shaped, stigmas short and obtuse. Con- 

 volvulus i, : E. B. t. 313, 



Moist woods and hedges. 1^. 6 — 8. — Flowers very large, showy, 

 pure white, sometimes rose-coloured, or striped with pink. 



2. C. Soldanella Br. (Sea-side C.) ; stem prostrate glabrous, 

 leaves reniform fleshy, peduncles 4-sided single-flowered their 

 anodes winged, bracteas ovale, stigmas ovate obtuse wrinkled. 



Convolvulus Z. : E. B, t. 314. 



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. Sea-shore in sandy places, frequent, 

 creeping. Flowers few, large, rose-coloured, 

 a ridge on eacli side in place of dissepiments. 



6 — 8. — Boot long, 

 Ovary 1 -celled, with 

 Stigmas large. 



3. CuscuTA Linn. Dodder. 



Ccd. 4 — 5-cleft. Cor. campanulate, 4 — 5-lobed, the tithe 

 usually furnished with scales on the inside. Styles 2 (rarely 

 united). Ovary 2-eelled, 4-ovuled. Cap'i. bur^^ting all round 

 transversely at the base, 2-celled. — Parasitical leafless ^Inxiis^ 

 7vith long tuHuijig Jilij'o?^m stems — Derived probably from its 

 Arabic name, lies hold ; or from the Hebrew chuz^ to hind or 

 surround. ■ , 



1. C. Europce'aJj. (greater B.) ; heads of flowers bracteated 

 sessile, styles included, corolla (at first) with a cylindrical tube 

 afterwards ventricose longer than the close-pressed calyx, 

 " scales adpressed to the tube bifid distant below with rounded 

 spaces " E. B. t. 378. » 



Parasitical on nettles, thistles, &c., not very common. 0. 7 — 9. 

 Stejns very long, red, having small tubercles or papilla, which serve 

 as roots. Flowers clustered, of a pale yellowish-rose colour. Scales 

 seem always to exist in the corolla, but from being adpressed are not 

 readily observed, 



. 2. C. * Hasnaca Koch (Lucerne D.) ; '^ stem branched, flowers 

 fascicled pedicellate, tube of corolla campanulate as long as the 

 limb closed with converirino- scales, limb 5 -cleft, segments 

 spreading with the points corniculate, styles 2, stigmas capitate " 



On Lucerne in Essex and Hertfordshire. 0. 8,9. — Flowers 

 ^vhite with the smell of tlie Heliotrope. Anthers yellow. Of this 

 we know nothing. It appears to have been introduced with Lticerne. 



3. C. "^Epilimim Weihe {Flax B.); heads of fleshy flowers 

 bracteated sessile, styles included, corolla with a globose tube 

 scarcely longer than the campanulate calyx, •'' scales adpressed 

 to the tube bifid fimbriated distant below with rounded spaces." 

 E. B. S. t. 2850. 



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On flax. Near Ellesmere, Salop ; Trelydan Hall, near Welsh 



