154 C0NV0LVULACEJ3. 



Cuscuta Linn. 

 1. C. europsea Linn. Great Dodder. 



C. major, E. C. 42. 0. officinarum, M. M. 70. C. ewro- 

 ■pma, M. PL 6. Belh. 108. 



Parasitical upon herbaceous plants. A. August, Sep- 

 tember. 



3. On potatoes at Whitiwell ; On beans at Coton; S.W.W. 

 Bourn (Mr Haycock); N. On Torilis Anthiscus at Bar- 

 ton; Eelh. — 4. On thistles at Madingley ; On the hop at 

 Oahington; On beans at Swavesey; Eelh. On beans at 

 Oakington; S. W. W. — 5. Swaffham Prior!; Eev. J. 

 Downes. Newmarket; Eev. J. Hemsted (Bot. Guide, i. 48). 

 — 6. Haddenham; N". Love Lane, and near the bridge, 

 Ely; H. 



2. C. Epithymttm Murr. Small Dodder. 



C. europcea 0, Eelh. ed. 1, 102. C. Epithymum, Eelh. 

 ed. 3, 108. 



Parasitical on small shrubby plants. A. July to Sep- 

 tember. 



3. Gamlhigay Heath. 



+ 3. C. Trifdlii Bab. Clover Dodder. 



Phytol. i. 467. Ann. Nat. Hist. xiii. 252. 



First noticed by C. 0. B. in 1842. 



Clover-fields; rarely on other herbaceous plants. A. 

 July to September. 



1. Balsham. Cambridge. — 2. Whittlesford ; Mr C. 

 Thurnall. — 3. Coton. Barrington. Barton. Toft!; Evers- 

 den; Kingston; Eltisley; upon Plantago lanceolata at 

 Long Stow (Eev. J. Eushton) ; 1ST. Malton ; D. B. — 4. Dry 

 Drayton; N. 



[C. Epilinum was introduced with the seed of flax at 

 Ely in 1853, but disappeared with that crop.] 



