CUSCUTA. 217 
—E. B. 313. Calystegia R. Br.—St. twining, many feet long, 
with large rather distant leaves. Fi. solitary, axillary, large, 
white, rarely ae Bracts quite inclosing the calyx. Fr. im- 
ala 2-celled through the shortness of the dissepiment.— 
edges and thickets. P. VII. VIII. Great Bindweed. 
3. C. Soldanella (L.); 1. reniform slightly angular fleshy, pe- 
duncles 1-flowered with 4 membranous angles, bracts ovate close 
to the flower.—E. B. 314. Calystegia R. Br.—St. short, pro- 
cumbent. Fl. large, solitary, axillary, very handsome, pink with 
yellow bands. Bracts rather shorter than the calyx.—Sandy sea- 
shores. P. VI.—VIII. Sea-side Bindweed. 
2. Cuscuta Linn. Dodder. 
1. C. europea (L.); clusters of fl. bracteated sessile, tube of 
the cor. at first cylindrical afterwards ventricose, scales adpressed 
to the inside of the tube bifid distant below with rounded spaces, 
cal. much shorter than the corolla.—E. B. 378.—St. thread- 
shaped, branching, reddish. FI. in rather large clusters, yellow- 
ish.—Parasitical upon herbaceous plants. A. VIII. IX. Greater 
Dodder. E. 
+2. C. Epilinum (Weihe); clusters of fl. bracteated sessile, 
tube of the cor. ventricose, scales adpressed fimbriated distant 
below with rounded spaces, cal. with fleshy segments deltoid 
below nearly as long as the tube of the corolla.—E. B.S. 2850. C. 
densiflora Soy. Willm.—St. slender, nearly simple, pale green. Fi. 
in rather small distant clusters, whitish. Scales bifid with 4—8 
fimbrize on each lobe. Ventricose tube of the cor. with 5 longi- 
tudinal protuberances ; segments ventricose. Styles at first erect, 
soon bowing outwards, the stigmas ee aaah upon 
flax and very injurious to the crop. A. VIII. Flax Dodder. 
3. C. Epithymum (Murr.); clusters of fl. bracteated sessile, tube 
of the cor. cylindrical, scales converging as long as the tube of the 
cor. fimbriated and rounded at the end approximate below with 
narrow acute spaces, cal. bellshaped shorter than the tube of the 
corolla—E. B. 55.—St. slender, red. FI. small, with a reddish 
thin cal., and white cor. with spreading ovate-acute segments. 
Sep. broad, ovate-apiculate, longer than their tube. Anth. blunt 
or notched at the end. Lower part of the corona adpressed 
throughout ; scales broad.—Parasitical upon small shrubby plants. 
A. VIL—IX. Lesser Dodder. E. 8. 
+4. C. Trifolii (Bab.); clusters of fl. bracteated sessile, tube 
of the cor. cylindrical, scales converging half as long as the tube 
of the cor. fimbriated and rounded at the end distant below with 
rounded spaces, cal. narrowed below about as long as the tube of 
the cor.—E. B. S. 2898.—St. slender, branching, reddish~yel- 
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