CuscutaC] 
LVIII. CONVOLVULACE^E. 
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afterwards ventricose longer than the close-pressed calyx, 
“ scales adpressed to the tube bifid distant below with rounded 
spaces." E. B. t. 378. 
Parasitical on nettles, thistles, &c„ not very common. 0. 7 — 9. 
Stems very long, red, having small tubercles or papilla;, which, serve 
as roots. Flowers clustered, of a pale yellowish-rose colour. Scales 
seem always to exist in the corolla, but from being adpressed are not 
readily observed. 
2. C. *Hassiaca Pfeiff. ( Lucerne D.) ; “stem branched, flowers 
fascicled pedicellate, tube of corolla campanulate as long as the 
limb closed with converging scales, limb 5-cleft segments 
spreading with the points corniculate, styles 2, stigmas capitate.” 
On lucerne in Essex and Hertfordshire. ©. 8,9. — Flowers 
white, with the smell of the heliotrope. Anthers yellow. Of this 
we know nothing. It appears to have been introduced with lu- 
cerne. 
3. C. *Epilvium AVeihe ( Flax D.) ; heads of fleshy flowers 
bracteated sessile, styles included, corolla with a globose tube 
scarcely longer than the campanulate calyx, “ scales adpressed 
to the tube bifid fimbriated distant below with rounded spaces.” 
E. B. S. t. 2850. 
Parasitical on flax, in various places, and very injurious to the 
crop. ©. 8. — Steins simple, yellowish-green. Flowers fewer in 
a head, much more succulent than in C. Eurnpcea, and cellular 
when seen under a lens. Tube of corolla always globose ; filaments 
very short. Calyx broad and spreading, with 5 broad acute teeth. 
4. C. Eptlhymvm L. (lesser D .) ; styles exserted, heads of 
many small flowers bracteated sessile, corolla with a cylindrical 
tube longer than the campanulate calyx, “ scales converging 
as long as the tube of the corolla fimbriated and rounded at 
the end approximate below with narrow acute spaces.” C. 
Europasa Sm. : E. B. t. 55. 
Frequent on furze, heath, and thyme in exposed situations in 
England and Scotland. ©. 7 — 10. — Smaller than C. Europaa 
and C. Epilinum, especially in the flowers. Calyx-segments acuminate. 
5. C.*Trif6lii Bab. (Clover -D.) ; styles exserted, heads of 
small flowers bracteated sessile, “tube of the corolla cylindrical, 
scales converging half as long as the tube of the cor. fimbriate 
and rounded at the end distant below with rounded spaces, 
calyx narrowed below as long as the tube of the corolla.” 
E.'B. S. t. 2898. 
On clover chiefly. Norfolk ; Suffolk ; Essex ; Sussex ; Isle of 
Wight. ©. 7 — 9. — Supposed to have been introduced with clover- 
seed from the Continent. It is obviously very near the last, and 
chiefly differs by the form of the spaces between the scales; but 
