944 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
localities a sixty and seventy years ago, and in some 
instances was very destructive to crops of — and sie nai it 
is apparently nowhere permanent. This is not becau 
ot grow on a variety of enamarse native plaiitss Schlechtondal 
enumerates, in the moi cited above, more than a dozen different 
plants, belonging to nearly as many families, on which it had 
been observed. Bromus —— and cereals are sone the hosts 
named. So far as we know, Mr. s discovery of 
C. suaveolens at Reigate in 1900 is the only secant seed for this 
ount He found it in a waste field that may have been under 
Suen piotiouly, though not, he thinks, the year before. 
But it disappeared after the season of 1900, and co wi any. 
vations of various botanists it disappears because it ¢ har 
Mohl states that the frosts of the middle of October: amore fl 
destroyed the plant in the Duchy of sm and it is elsewhere 
noted that it does not seed freely in Euro C. suaveolens has 
al n found in New Zealand, and it Maiablished itself j in some 
parts of California upwards of thirty years ago. 
B. Cuscura Trver Insenga (syn. C. breviflora Visiani). 
I have already mentioned ey Mr. Hedger Wallace sent a 
Fame: of a dodder to Kew in 1906, which was then named 
n question was the Chilian dodder, C. racemosa (C. suaveolens). 
The latter name, supplied by Kew, i is reproduced, p. 5, in te un- 
pers i form of ‘‘ Marcobus.” 
Cuscuta Tinet was the second species with capitate stigmas 
found in = tka ope, and there is a strong presumption that it may 
also of American origin. Indeed, Engelmann reduces it to 
C. obtusiflora H. B. K. Nov. Gen. iii. 122, 1818, which was 
described from specimens cllected in in the Andes of Peru. But he 
retains C. breviflora Vis. (C. Tinet) as an iceman species, 
a course which will be followed here. As thus limited, the 
synonymy is still considerable, though Coste cites only C. bidentis 
Berthiot and Grammica bidentis Royer. 
onymy. 
Cuscura Trver Insenga in Tineo Pl. Rar. Sic. 1846, 
Cc. gre Visiani Fl. Dalm. 1847, ii. 231; ae ‘Ondedk FI. 
Cc. POET Requien; Bertol. Fl. Ital. 1847, vii. 623. 
C. Cesatiana Bertol. Fl. Ital. 1847, vii. 623; Boiss. Fl. Or. 1879, 
iv. 121; Nym. Consp. Fl. Eur. 508 (s ubspecies ). 
