216 54. CONVOLVULACE.®. 55. BORAGINE^. 
cumbent. FI. large, solitary, axillary, very handsome, pink with 
yellow bands. Bracts rather shorter than the calyx. — Sandy sea- 
shores. P. VI. — VIII. Seaside Bindweed. 
2. CuscuTA Linn. Dodder. 
1. C. europcea (L.); clusters of il. bracteated sessile, tube of 
the cor. at first cylindrical afterwards ventricose, scale.s adpressed 
to the inside of the tube bifid ibstaut below with rounded spaces, 
cal. much shorter than the corolla. — E. B. 3JS. — St. thread- 
shaped, branching, reddish. FI. in rather large clusters, yellow- 
ish.^ — Parasitical upon herbaceous jdants. A. VIII. IX. Greater 
Dodder. E. 
f2. C. Epilinum (Weihe); clusters of fl. bracteated sessile, 
tube of the cor. ventricose, scales adpressed fimbriated distant 
below with rounded sj>aces, cal. with fleshy segments deltoid 
below nearly as long as the tube of the corolla. — E. B. S. 2860. C. 
densiflora Soy. Willm. — St. slender, nearly simple, j)ale green. Fl. 
in rather small distant clusters, whitish. Scales bifid with 4 — 8 
fimbriae on each lobe. Ventricose tube of the cor. with 5 longi- 
tudinal ])rotuberances ; segments ventricose. Styles at first erect, 
soon bowing outwards the stigmas converging. — Parasitical upon 
flax and very injurious to the crop. A. VlII. Flax Dodder. 
3. C. Epithymum (Murr.) ; clustersof fl. bracteated sessile, tube 
of the cor. cylindrical, scales converging as long as the tube of the 
cor. flmbriated and rounded at the end approximate below with 
narrow acute .spaces, cal. bcllsha})cd shorter than the tube of the 
corolla. — E. B. 55. — St. slender, red. Fl. small, with a reddish 
thin cal. and white cor. with spreading ovate-acute segments. 
Sep. broad, ovate-a])iculate, 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. VII. — IX. Lesser Dodder. E. S. 
t4. C. Trifolii (Bab.); clusters of fl. bracteated sessile, tube 
of the cor. cylindrical, scales converging half as long as the tube 
of the cor. flmbriated and rounded at the end distant below with 
rounded spaces, cal. narrowed below as long as the tube of the 
cor. — E. B. S. 2898. — St. slender, branching, reddish-yellow. 
Fl. small, white. Cal. fleshy, usually ti])j)cd with red ; sep. lan- 
ceolate, about as long as their tube. Anth. aj)iculate. Connect- 
ing membrane of the corona not ad])ressed but forming cuplike 
spaces between itself and the cor. ; scales narrow. — Parasitical 
upon clover chiefly. A. VII. — IX. Clover Dodder. E. 
Order LV. BORAGINE.E. 
Cal. inferior, 4 — 5-parted, persistent. Cor. hypogynous, re- 
