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THE HISTORY OF THREE CASUAL DODDERS. 
By W. Bortine Hemstey, F.R.S., F.LS. 
(PLATE 493.) 
A. Cuscura SUAVEOLENS Seringe (syn. C. hassiaca Pfeiffer). 
Tue first record of the occurrence of this plant in the British 
Islands i is by E. G. Varenne, in the Phytologist, 1851, iv. 382. It 
was taken from a field of lucerne at Witham, in hig and there 
In 1867 Mr. H. E. Fox found the same species growing on lucerne 
in the allotment grounds near the station at Cambridge, and there 
é specimens a =a collecting in the Watson Herbarium and at 
ee British Mus 
e next Sonia, in point of date, is in this —e for 1868, 
p- 348. It is to the ‘effect that the Rev. J. F. Crouch had observed 
the lucerne dodder in abundance near Pembridge, in n Herefordshire, 
and that Dr. H. G, Bull had made alg Sg of th Thi 
together with a description, appears in the Tcmattiins of the 
Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club for 1868, p. 122. Purchas & Ley 
(Flora Heref. 1889, 206) state that this dodder had not since been 
found in the county. 
In the Gardeners’ Chronicle as! 1869, p. 1038, there is an 
editorial statement that a correspondent had forwarded specim 
of Cuscuta hasstaca, collected at Adwell, Oxfordshire, and ies 
is made to “its clear orange stems and abundant, pure white, 
cage rns scented flowers.” 
his Zeca for 1870 (p. 355) is a record by F. E. Kitchener 
that this dodder “ had appeared last year, and again this year, ina 
field of lucerne near Rugby, belonging e Mr. K. Edwards.” This 
it had been found that summ Mr. John Dovaston at Wig- 
marsh, near Westfelton, Shropshire. This is the last indexed 
and of the Bot 
the latter for 1878. ee ty pee who was <r interested in 
the genus Cuscuta, r ity i 
the fourth edition of his Manual (1856), and the slit is repeated 
in successive editions, even to the ninth (posthumous) edition, 
under the same name, without synonyms and without any further 
localities. 
After an interval of nearly thirty years Mr. C. E. Salmon found 
C, hepsi as we Wi ceforth call it, in a waste field at the 
top of Colley Hill, i Surrey, parasitic on Prunella vulgaris, 
Cnicus arvensis, Ranunculus repens, &c., and it is recorded in the 
* Gibson (Flora Sa Essex, 1862, p. 208) records this et _— Witham, 
Rawreth, and Hull Bridge : all on the authority of E. G. V: 
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