C 813 } 
Digynia. 
Cuscuta, Gen. Plant. N°. 156. 
Cufcuta floribus feffilibus, Sp. Plant, p. 1 24. 
Cufcuta major C. B. pin. 219. R. Syn. p. 281. 
Dodder. 
It is not a common plant in thefe parts. It is 
found upon the common nettle in fome of the 
back lanes about Leicefter. 
Dodder is really the fame plant wherever it is 
found j though authors have been ufed to call it by 
as many different names as there are different 
plants upon which it is found. It is fubjedt to 
variation in the colour of the ftalks, which at firff 
are yellowifh, afterwards purple : the colour of 
the flower is variable too, and thefe accidents have 
been the fources of feveral fpecies. M. Vaillant, 
though commonly averfe to the multiplication of 
fpecies, yet enumerates three kinds of Dodder in 
the Botanicon Parifienfe, p. 43. But Linnaeus, 
Haller, and M. Dalibard agree in referring them 
all to the Cufcuta major of Cafpar Bauhine here 
mentioned, which is really the only fpecies found 
in Europe. Cufcuta tingit purpurafcente colore, 
Amaen. Acad. vol. I. 3 59. 
PENTANDRIA 
monogynia. 
Lithospermum, Gen. PI. N°. 166. 
Lithofpermum feminibus laevibus, corollis calycem 
vix fuperantibu^ foliis lanceolatis. Hort. Cliff. 
46. Sp. Plant, p. 132. 
Vol. 49. y L 
Lithof- 
