192 PARASITIC PLANTS. 
One seedling placed upon a plant of Déelytra spectabilis 
did not twine or extend itself with much freedom, but, 
taking a turn or two near the extremity of one of the 
branches, it there expended its strength in perfecting 
a large conglomerate cluster of one hundred or more 
bells of unusual size and purity of color. In the process 
of transplanting from the earth to their aerial abode, we 
at first attempted to convey a ball of earth with each 
seedling, but this was soon found to be worse than use- 
less. 
C. Gronovii, the species under consideration, is found 
in low damp places, and by the side of brooks and 
ponds, twining and climbing over such plants as the Wil- 
low and Cephalanthus, Decodon and Lythrum, Solidago 
and Impatiens, to which it attaches itself by “tuberculous 
processes” or “radicating papille,” as its roots or suck- 
ers, under the partial knowledge of their nature, have 
hitherto been called. This plant grows often to the 
length of five or six feet, with its branching, leafless : 
stems, considerably resembling tangled cord, and are of 
a deep yellow or orange color, being thickly studded 
with cymose clusters of small white bell-shaped flowers, 
somewhat like those of the Lily of the Valley, but much 
more diminutive. We have seen this plant growing on 
the banks of Ipswich River and its brooklets, in great lux- 
uriance, stretching far over the water upon the deeply- 
immersed stems of the Button-bush and Decodon. 
This species of Cuscuta does not appear 
p> to have any partiality to particular species of 
foster-plants, but freely attaches itself to such 
as grow within its reach (Fig. 2). Its flow- 
ers, or little globose bells, consist of short 
five-lobed tubes, with calices similarly divided, and five 
