54. BORAGINACE^. 
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coi: fringed with teeth and rounded at the end close together 
belov with narrow acute spaces, cal. bellshaped shorter than the 
cor.-tuhe. — E. B. 55. — St. slender, red. Fl. small, with a 
reddish thin cal., and white cor. with spreading ovate-acute 
segments. Sep. broad, ovate-apiculate, longer than their tube, 
with patent tips. Anth. blunt or notched at the end. Scales 
broad ; the connecting membrane adpressed throughout. — [See 
C. I'/icis (Godr.) : scales less than in Sp. 2 or 3, less deeply- 
fringed converging. Bull. Bat. Fr. xxiii.] — Parasitical upon 
small shrubby plants. A. VII. — IX. Lesser Dodder. E. S. I. 
t3. C. Trifolii (Bab.) ; st. clasping like a ri'ng, cor.-tube 
cylindrical, scales converging tisually eqtialling half the tube of 
the cor. fringed with teeth and rounded at the end distant below 
ivith rounded spaces, cal. narrowed below about a.s long as the 
cor.-tube.—^. B. S. 2898. Not C. Ejuthipnum /3. Trifolii R. 
xviii. 1343. — St. slender, branching, reddish yellow, forming 
dense broad circular patches. Fl. small, white. Cal. fleshy, 
usually tipped with red ; sep. lanceolate, about as long as their 
tube, adpressed. Anth. apiculate. Scales narrow ; connecting 
membrane not adpressed, forming cuplike spaces between itself 
and the corolla. — Parasitical upon Clover chiefly. A. VII. — 
IX. Clover-Dodder. E. 
[C. approodma'ta (Bab.) ; like Sp. 2 but scales divided by 
acute spaces and truncate, was found on Bockhara Clover. 
A. N. H. xvi. t. i. ; and C. sudveolens (Ser.) = C'. hassiaca 
(Pfeiff.) ; ./?. stalked, cor.-tube bellshaped closed with converg- 
ing scales, stig. capitate. Heliotrope-scented, on Lucerne. 
Both introduced. A. VIII. IX.] 
Order LIV. BORAGINACE.E. 
Fl. mostly in scorpioidal cymes, symmetrical. Cal. inferior, 
5-parted, persistent. Cor. hypogynous, usually regular. Stam. 
5, inserted on the corolla. Ovary of two 2-parted carp., with 
each lobe 1-seeded ; ovules pendulous. Style simple, from near 
the base between the lobes of the ovary. Fr. separating in 4 
nutlets or 2 bilocular portions. Seeds without albumen. — L. 
alternate. — Stip. 0. 
Tribe I. C YXOGLOSSE^E. Nutlets 4, on the persistent base 
of the style. — Stam. included. 
1. AspEECJGO. Cal. 5-cleft with alternate smaller teeth, 
enlarged and compressed in fruit. Cor. funnelshaped with 
