236 53. CONTOLTULACE^. 54. BOEAeiNACE^. 



as the cor.-tube. — K B; 8. 2850. C, densiflora Soy.-Willm. — 

 St. slender, nearly simple, pale green. PI. in rather small dis- 

 tant clusters, whitish. Scales bifid, with 4 — 8 teeth on each 

 lobe. Ventricose cor.-tube with 5 longitudinal prominences; 

 aegm. ventricose. Styles at first erect, soon bowing outwards ; 

 stigmas converging. — Parasitical upon Flax and very injurious 

 to the crop. A. VIII. Flax Dodder.'] E. S. I. 



2. C. Epithymum (Murr.); clusters of fl. sessile, cor.-tube 

 cylindrical, scales converf/ing equalling the tube of the cor. fringed 

 with teeth and rounded at the end close together belmo loith narrow 

 acute spaces, cal. bellshaped shorter than thecor.-tube. — <Si.slender, 

 red, twining irregularly. Fl. small, with a reddish thin cal., and 

 white cor. with spreading ovate-acute segments. Sep. broad, 

 ovate-apiculate, longer than their tube, with patent tips. Anth. 

 blunt or notched at the end. Scales broad; the connecting 

 membrane adpressed throughout. — Parasitical upon small 

 shrubby plants. A. VII. — IX. Zesser Dodder. E. S. 



t3. C. Trifdlii (Bab.) ; clusters of fl. sessile, tube of the cori 

 cylindrical, scales converging equalling half the tube of the cor. 

 fringed with teeth and rounded at the end distant below toith 

 rounded spaces, cal. narrowed below abotd as long as the cor.- 

 tube.—^. JB. 8. 2898. Not C. Epithymum 13. Trifolii R. xviii. 

 1342. — St. slender, branching, reddish yellow, clasping like a ring, 

 Fl. small, white. Oal; fleshy, usually tipped with red; sep. 

 lanceolate, about as long as their tube, adpressed. Anth. api- 

 culate. Scales narrow; connecting membrane not adpressed, 

 forming cuplike spaces between itself and the coroUa.— Parasi- 

 tical upon Clover chiefly. A. VII. — IX. Clover Dodder. E. 



[C hassiaca (Pfeifi:);^. stalked, cor.-tube bellshaped closed 

 with converging scales, stig. capitate ; Heliotrope-scented. — On 

 Lucerne in Essex. Introduced. A. VIII. IX.] E. 



Order LIV. BORAGINACE^. 



Fl. mostly in scorpioidal cymes, symmetrical. Cal. inferior, 

 4 — 5-parted, persistent. Cor. hypogynous, usually regular. 

 Stam. 5, inserted on the coroUa. Ovary 4-parted, 4-Eeeded ; 

 ovules pendulous. Style simple, from near the base between 

 the lobes of the ovary. Fr. separating in 4 nutlike or 2 bilocu- 

 lar portions. Seeds without albumen. — L. alternate. — Figures 

 of all the genera are in G. F. O. 0am. ii. 



Tribe I. CYN0GL088E^. Nuts 4, on the persistent base of 

 the style. — Stam. included. 



I. AsPEBtJGO. Cal. 5-cleft with alternate smaller teeth, en- 

 larged and compressed in fruit. Cor. funnelshaped with 



