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63. CT7SCTTTACEJE. 
erect and parallel , rarely subclivergent. — Murr. in Linn. Syst. 
Veg. (ed. 13) 140 ; EB. 378 (text at bottom of page, not fig.) ; 
EBS. t. 2898 at bottom (except the narrow acute interspaces of 
scales in the middle fig.) ; Pers. i. 289 ; Hook. El. Sc. i. 86 ; Sm. 
E. FI. ii. 25 ; Spr. i. 865 ; Rchb. Iconogr. t. 499 ; WB. iii. 36 ; 
Koch 569 ; Coss. et Germ. 261 ; Gren. et Godr. ii. 504 ; Bab. 
225 P ; Willk. et Lange ii. 520. C. europcea , epithymum (3 Linn. 
Sp. 180 ; /3. minor Lam. Diet. ii. 229, 111. t. 88 ; b, Yill. Daupli. 
ii. 311 ; A, I)esf. i. 147. C. europcea EB. t. 55. C. minor Vaill. 
Par. 43. nos. 2, 3 ; DO. ix. 453. il Epithymum s. Cuscuta minor 
Bauli. Pin. 219;” FI. Dan. t. 427. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, r; 
PS. reg. 3, r. Mad., Brazen Head, on Mercurialis ambigua L. 
&c., Ilheo de Fora or do Pkarol (P ta de S. Lourenyo) on Calen- 
dula maderensis DC. chiefly (most abundant immediately below 
the Lighthouse) ; PS. on Cheiranthus arbuscula Lowe on S.W. 
ascent of Pico Branco ; on Hypericum glandulosum Ait. on E. 
side of Pico d’Anna Ferreira (Barao do Gastello de Paiva). 
Feb.-April. — Overspreading and often destroying the pi. or 
weeds which it infests with a thick tangled filamentous mass or 
web of a pale straw-colour, rarely subrubescent ; the extremely 
fine capillary branches fulvous or deep golden-y. towards their 
free produced and loosely flaunting ends, but lower down intri- 
cately intertwining amongst themselves in tangled cobwebby 
masses rather than twisting in distinct coils or rings round the 
st. or branches of the pi. which they infest. Heads of fl, either 
sparse and remote or densely massed and crowded, size of a 
small pea, w. or pale, with a small inconspicuous ovate or ovato- 
lanceolate membranous br., at first w. then brown, at their base. 
Fl. rarely 4-merous, perfectly scentless. Cal. little more than 
half the length of the cor. ; tube short, gr. only at the base ; 
lobes without nerve or keel, thick and fleshy, shining w. and 
pellucidly vesicular-granulate like the cor., elliptic and acute or 
clavate and obtuse, nearly or quite as long as the cor.-tube, loose 
or spreading. Cor. pellucid shining w. or pale ; tube short, at 
first cylindric, then urceolate ; lobes abruptly and shortly acu- 
minate, scarcely longer than broad, shorter or not longer than 
the tube. Anth. bright chrome-y., shortly oblong or oval, ob- 
tuse or retuse not apiculate, exserted above the cor.-tube or 
stigmas and reaching half the length of the cor.-lobes ; scales at 
base of their w. iil. spathulate, obtuse or truncate, sometimes 
subacute, filmy-w. pellucid, glandular-fimbriate or irregularly 
capitato-ciliolate, connivently indexed over the ov., distant be- 
low with widely arc u a tel y -rounded interspaces, not (as described 
by Bab. 1. c. 225 and figured in EBS. t. 2898) “approximate 
below with narrow acute spaces,” but exactly as figured on the 
same plate above for C. trifolii 1 lab. Styles filiform-eylindric 
thickish continuous or confluent with the obtuse or subtruncate 
not more thickened stigmas, distinct quite to the base, erect 
