no PHLOX ORDER 



4, styles 2, rarely united below, capsule splitting or remaining closed; 

 flowers usually in dense clusters ; thread-like parasites with minute scales 

 in place of leaves, twining about herbs or shrubs. 



Cuscuta Linne 1753 Dodder 



(Probably of Arabic origin) 



PL 20, fig. 16. 



Characters of the family. 



1. Scales within the corolla projecting beyond the 



tube C. umbelldta 



2. Scales included in the corolla 



a. Stigmas thread-like ; fruit opening circularly C. gracilis 



b. Stigmas shield- or ball-like ; fruit remaining 



closed 



(1) Sepals separate, with similar bracts below 



them 



(a) Flowers stalked, in loose clusters; bracts 



entire C. cuspiddta 



(b) Flowers sessile, in dense rope-like clus- 



ters ; bracts finely toothed C. glomerdta 



(2) Sepals united 



(a) Flowers sessile or nearly so 



x. Scales within corolla tube ovate, fringed C. arvensis 



y. Scales none or much reduced C. polygonontm 



(b) Flowers stalked 



x. Tips of corolla lobes inflexed 



(x) Fruit enclosed by the corolla C. indecora 



(y) Fruit capped by the corolla C. coryli 



y. Tips of corolla lobes not inflexed 



(x) Scales shorter than corolla-tube, 



finely fringed all around C. cephaldnthi 



(y) Scales equaling or exceeding the 

 corolla-tube, long-fringed at the 

 top C. GronSvii 



SOLANACEAE POTATO FAMILY 

 Sepals 5, united, petals 5, united into a saucer-, bell-, funnel-, salver 

 or tube-shaped corolla, stamens 5, inserted on the tube and alternate wit 

 ihe lobes of the corolla, ovary with 2 cavities, ovules numerous, style I 

 slender, stigma terminal, fruit a berry or capsule; flowers solitary or' 



