72 PENTx\NDRIA DIGYNIA. Cuscuta. 



Bark of branches even. Trunk and branches rugged, crooked. 



As the fruit advances, the Is. appear. Ls. alternate, short stalked, 



egg-rhomboid, unequal at the base, one to three inches long. Fl. 



clusters, numerous, dense. Bract, fringed. Cal. light-red, or 



brownish. Stam, four, anth. large, roundish, purple. 



Wood hard, tough, durable in wet situations. Decoct, of inner 



bark in Dropsy, in Lepra icthyosis. The dried ground bark mixed 



with meal (JVith.^ for bread during a scarcity. Well adapted for 



shady walks, as not destroying the grass, its Is. acceptable to 



cattle ; should be gi'afted on the Ulmus glabra to prevent the roots 



sending out suckers. Thrives in an open situation, black, clayey 



soil : bears transplantation. Caterpillar of Pap. Polychloros, large 



Tortoiseshell Butterfly, and of Pap. Comma Album feed on the Is. 



Young h. food for silk-worms. Wood less liable to splinter than 



even oak; hence used in ship-building, naves of wdieels, &c. 



*U. suherosa. Common Cork-harked E. Leaves pointed, 

 rough, doubly and sharply saw-toothed. Flowers 

 stalked, four or five cleft, Capsule almost circular, 

 deeply cloven, naked. Branches spreading ; their bark 

 corky. E. B. 216 1. U. vulgatissima, folio lato 

 scabro. Goodr. in G. E. 1480. 



Hedges, occasionally. 



Tree. March. 



Branches, — bark fissured. 



U. montdna. Broad-leaved E. Wych Hazel. Leaves 

 taper pointed, rough, doubly saw-toothed. Flowers 

 stalked, loosely tufted, five or six cleft. Capsule some- 

 what circular, slightly cloven, naked. Branches droop- 

 ing ; their bark even. E. B. 1887- U. effusa. Sb. 

 U. folio latissimo scabro. Goodr. in G. E. 1481. 

 Woods, hedges. 

 Tree. A^ml. 



Tree large, branches spreading, drooping ; bark even. It flowers 

 under thirty feet lugh. U. campestris seldom until after a 

 greater height, and age. Timber less valuable than that of U. 

 campestris. Ls. larger than in U. camp, less rough, with longer 

 points. Fl. somewhat larger, on rather longer stalks, blush- 

 coloured. Stam. five to six. Fruit larger than in U. (^mp. 

 more skinny, and hop-like. 



Magdalen College Elm, Oxford, two feet above ground, mea- 

 sures twenty-seven feet, four : breast high, twenty-one feet. 

 1831. R. W. A remarkably fine elm also at Fyfield, Oxfordshire. 



CUSCUTA. Dodder. 

 C, europcea. Great D. Flowers nearly stalkless. 



