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8. Cuscuta Gronévii Willd. Gronovius’ 
Dodder. Love-vine. Fig. 3449. 
C. Gronovii Willd.; R. & S, Syst. 6: 205. 1820. 
Cuscuta vulgivaga Engelm, Am. Journ, Sci. 43: 
338. pl. 6. f. 12-16, 1842. 
_ Stems yellow to orange, slender, high-climb- 
ing; flowers usually short-pedicelled, numerous 
in dense cymes. Calyx not bracted, its lobes 
ovate, obtuse, shorter than the corolla-tube; 
corolla campanulate, about 13” long, the lobes 
ovate, obtuse, rounded, spreading, nearly as 
long as the tube, the scales narrow, equalling 
_ or longer than the tube, thickly fringed about 
the summit and sparingly along the sides with 
long slender processes; styles slender, not as 
long as the ovary; stigmas capitate; capsule 
globose, short-pointed or pointless, 13” in diam- 
eter, enveloped or capped by the withering 
deciduous corolla. 
On herbs and low shrubs, Nova Scotia to Mani- 
toba, Montana, Florida and Texas. Scald-weed, 
Devil’s-gut July—Aug. 
g. Cuscuta rostrata Shuttlw. Beaked 
Dodder. Fig. 3450. 
Cuscuta rostrata Shuttlw.; Engelm. Bost. Journ. 
Nat. Hist. 5: 225. 1845. 
Stems coarse, yellowish white; flowers larger 
than in any of our other species, loosely cy- 
mose, pedicelled. Calyx gamosepalous, 5-lobed, 
the lobes ovate-triangular, shorter than the 
corolla-tube; corolla campanulate, 2’~3” long, 
white, its lobes broadly ovate, obtuse, about as 
long as the calyx-lobes; scales narrow, some- 
times spatulate, shorter than the tube, heavily 
fringed at the summit and sparingly along the 
sides with long slender processes; stamens in- 
cluded; styles slender, about as long as the 
flask-shaped ovary; stigmas capitate; capsule 
oval, long-beaked. 
On herbs and shrubs, Maryland to South Caro- 
lina and Georgia. July—Sept. 
ro. Cuscuta cuspidata Engelm. Cuspidaté \ 
Dodder. Fig. 3451. 
Cuscuta cuspidata Engelm, Bost. Journ, Nat. Hist. 5: 
224. 1845. 
Plant yellowish; stems slender; flowers about 
14” long in loose panicled cymes. Calyx of 5 
distinct entire sepals, shorter than the corolla- 
tube, with 2-4 similar bracts at its base and cften 
others on the pedicels; sepals orbicular to lanceo- 
late, cuspidate, mucronate or acuminate; corolla 
nearly salverform, its lobes triangular-lanceolate 
or oblong, acute or cuspidate, spreading, about 
one-half the length of the tube; scales narrow, 
usually less than one-half as long as the tube, 
fringed all around with short irregular processes ; 
stamens not exserted; styles very selnder, longer 
than the ovary; stigmas capitate; capsule bearing 
the withered corolla on its summit. 
On coarse herbs, Nebraska to Missouri and Texas. 
July-Sept. 
