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yellow bands. Bracts rather shorterthanthe calyx. — Sandv sea- 
shores. P. VI.— Vm. Sea-side Bindweed. E" S. I. 
2. Cttsctt'ta lAnn. Dodder, 
1. C. europa'a (L.) ; clusters of fl. sessile, cor. -tube cylindrical 
afterwards ventricose, scales adpi-essed to inside of tube bifid 
distant below with rounded spaces, cal. much shorter than corolla. 
— E. B. 378. — St. threadsliaped, branching, reddish. FL in rather 
large clusters, vellowi.sh. — -Parasitical upon herbaceous plants. 
A. Vin. IX. "Greater Dodder. . E. S. 
[G Epilimim (Weihe) ; clusters of fl. sessile, cor. -tube ven- 
tricose, scales adpressed fringed with teeth distant below with, 
rounded spaces, cal. with jieshy segments deltoid below nearly as 
long as the cor. -tube. — E. B. S. 2850. C. densijlora Soy.-Willm. 
— St. slender, nearly simple, pale green. Fl. in rather small 
distant clusters, whitish. Scales bifid, with 4 — 8 teeth on each 
lobe. Ventricose cor. -tube with 5 longitudinal prominences ; 
segm. ventricose. Styles at first erect, soon bowing outwards; 
stigmas converging. — Parasitical upon Flax and very injiuious 
to the crop. A. VIII. Flax Dodder.'} E. S. I. 
2. C. Epithg'mmn (Murr.) ; clusters of fl. sessile, cor. -tube 
cylindrical, scales converging equalling the tube of the cor. fiinged 
with teeth and rounded at the end close together beloio with nar- 
row acute spaces, cal. bellshaped shoHer than the cor.-titbe. — E. B. 
55. — St. slender, red, twining irregtdarly. 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. — Para- 
sitical upon small shrubby plants. A. VII. — ^IX. Lesser Dodder. 
E. S. 
t3. C. Trifolii (Bab.) ; clusters of fl. sessile, tube of the cor. 
cylindrical, scales converging equalling half the tube of the cor, 
fringed with teeth and rounded at the end distant helmv with 
rounded spaces, cal. narrowed below about as long as the cor.- 
tube.— i". B. S. 2898. C. Epithymum /3. Trifolii R. xviii. 1342 
is not this plant. — St. slender, brauchino^, reddish yellow, chsp- 
ing like a ring. Fl. small, white. Cal. fleshy, usuaUy tipped 
with red ; sep. lanceolate, about as loug as their tube, adpressed. 
Anth. apiculate. Scales narrow ; the connecting membrane 
not adpressed, but forming cuplike spaces between itself and the 
corolla. — Parasitical upon Clover chiefly. A. VII. — IX. Clover 
Dodder. E. 
[C. hassiaca (Pfeiff".) ; Jl. stalla'd, cor. -tube bellshaped closed 
with converging scales, stig. capitate ; Heliotrope-scented. — On 
Lucerne in Essex. Introduced. A. VIII. IX.] E. 
