O. A. STEVENS 
Our spec'mens of C. coryli have been confused with other species, 
usually C. gronovii Willd. In most of the manuals the capsule is 
described as ''pointed." Small/ however, gives "much depressed," 
which agrees with our plants. The size of the capsules and shape of 
the calyx lobes are quite variable. The fruiting clusters vary from a 
Text-figures i, 3, 5, 7, of flowers X about 5, and of portion of corolla (figs. 2, 4^ 
6, 8) showing one scale X about 10; the latter draw^n from camera lucida sketch. 
Flowers from preserved material except i and 2. 
1-2. Cusctita coryli. 3-4. Cuscuta indecora. 5-6. Cuscuta plattensis. 7-8. 
Cuscuta gronovii. 
few capsules to loose, long-stalked cymes or dense masses i to 3 inches 
thick. Specimens collected at Fargo and also some grown in the 
garden were examined by Mr. F. H. Hillman, of the U.S. Departrnent 
of Agriculture. 
Cuscuta cephalanthi Engelm. Walhalla; also from Towner 
(Lunell) on Artemisia frigida. 
Cuscuta plattensis A. Nels. Lisbon, Jamestown, Leeds, Pleasant 
Lake, Turtle Mts., and Minot. On Solidago canadensis, S. serotina, 
Aster panimlatus, Artemisia gnaphalodes, Steironema ciliatum, Convol- 
vulus sepium, LatJiyrus palustris, Clematis virginiana, Humulus lupulus, 
Symphoricarpos occidentalis and Salix cordata. 
^ Small, J. K., Flora of the Southeastern United States, p. 968, 1903. 
