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D I G Y N I A 



CUSCUTA. Gen.pLi'jo. 

 Cal. 4-fidus. Cor. i-petala. Cap/. 2-locularis. 

 €uropaa, cUSCUTA floribus feflllibus. Sp. pi 180. {Ger. 

 emac. p. 577. Oeder. Dan t. 19c). opt.) 

 Dodder. Anglis. 



It grows upon furze, heath, nettles, flax, thyme, 

 and other plants. Upon furze bufhes near 

 Mollance in Galloivay. Dr. Burgefs. O. VII. 

 VIII. 

 . It is a parafitical plant of a very fingular nature, 

 deftitute of leaves and roots. 

 It confifts only of red, fucculent, thread-like 

 flalks, twifting about the plant on which it 

 grows in a fpiral direction, contrary to the fun's 

 motion, and drawing its nouriftiment from it 

 by fmall (uck'ing papillcs, fix'd into the pores of 

 the bark or rind, thereby exhaufting the fofter- 

 plant of its juices, imbibing its virtues, and of- 

 ten deftroying it. 

 The flowers grow in thick fefllle cluflers on the 

 fides of the ftalks, and at the angles of the 

 • branches, of a whitifli or pale-red color ; the 

 calyx and corolla of each divided generally into 

 four, but fometimes five fegments. 

 The feed has no cotyledons or feminal lobes, but 

 fiioots out a fpiral thread without roots. 



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