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3. C. SoldaneTla (L.) ; I. reniform slightly angular fleshy, pe- 

 duncles l-flowered with 4 memhranous angles. — E. B. 314. — 

 St. short, proc-umbent. Fl. large, solitary, axillary, very hand- 

 some, pink with yellow bands. Bracts rather shorter than the 

 calyx. — Sandy sea-shores. P. VI. — VIII. Sea-side Bindweed. 



E. S. I. 



2. Ctjscit'ta Linn. Dodder. 



1. C. europts'a (L.) ; clusters of fl. sessile, cor.-tuhe cylindricsl 

 afterwards ventricose, scales adpressed to inside of tube bifid dis- 

 tant below with rounded spaces between them, cal. much shorter 

 than corolla. — H. B. 378.— St. threadshaped, branching, reddish. 

 Fl. in rather large clusters, yellowish. — Parasitical upon herba- 

 ceous plants. A. VIII. IX. Greater Dodder. E. S. 



[C JEpilinum (Weihe) ; clusters of fl. sessile, cor. -tube ventri- 

 cose, scales adpressed fringed with teeth distant below with 

 rounded spaces, cal. mth fleshy segments deltoid below nearly as 

 long as the cor.-tube. — J3. B. S. 2850. C. defisiflora Soy.-Willm. — 

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

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

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

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

 stigmas converging. — Parasitical upon Flax and very injurious 

 to the crop. A. VIII. Flax Bodder.l E. S. I. 



2. C JEptthymum (Murr.) ; st. twining irregularly, clusters of 

 fl. sessile, cor.-tube cylindrical, scales converging usually equalling 

 the tube of the cor. fringed with teeth and rounded at the end 

 close together below with narrow acute spaces, cal. bellshaped 

 shorter than the cor.-tube. — H. B. 55. — St. slender, red. 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. — [See C. Ulicis (Godr.) ; scales less than in Sp. 2 

 or 3, less deeply fringed converging. Bull. Bot. Fr. xxiii.] — 

 Parasitical upon small shrubby plants. A. VII. — IX. Lesser 

 Dodder. E. S. 



t3. C. Trifolii (Bab.) ; st. clasping liJce a ring, clusters of fl. 

 sessile, tube of the cor. cylindrical, scales converging usually 

 equalling half the tube of the cor. fringed with teeth and rounded 

 at the end distant below unth rounded spaces, cal. narrowed below 

 about as long as the cor.-tube.— .S. B. S. 2898. Not C. Ejnthy- 

 mum (3. Trifolii R. xviii. 1342. — St. slender, branching, reddish 

 yellow, forming dense broad circular patches. Fl. small, white. 



