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jf*-Monography of the North American Cuscutinece. 343 
:a indicated by the late Mr. Bey rich, and mentioned by Sir Wm. Hooker in his 
^. excellent Flora Boreali-Americana , (Vol. 2, p. 77,) and in the first volume of the 
*m&Cpmpanion to the Botanical Magazine . 
K,; C. umbrosa of Beyrich, in herb. Hook. (FI. Bor.-Am. 1. c.) from Canada, the 
rapNorth West Coast, as well as the United States, I am unable to determine from 
y the characters given. It may be either my C. Saururi, or C. vuigivaga, p. glome- 
grata : the length of the styles does not appear to afford constant characters in this 
. genus. 
j| C. arvensis of Beyrich, in herb. Hook. (C. Americana ? Hook.Jl. Bor.-Am. 1. c.) fc 
| is perhaps my C. vuigivaga, a. laxiflora. According to Hooker, Douglas collect- , 
v ed it in Oregon. 
P C. cor'onata, of Beyrich, in herb. Hook, is enumerated but not characterized in 
Hook. Compan. to Bot. Mag. l,p. 173. .New Orleans, Drummond, 1833, on the 
stems of Laurus Carolinensis. 
jp|\ P- Epilinum, Weihe, has been introduced, with flax, into some parts of this 
^ country, especially Chester County, Pennsylvania, fide, Darlington , Flora Ces- 
y trica, Ed. 2. ^ 
/ (2.) LEPIDANCHE* n. gen. f i 
. Calyx consisting of many imbricated scales, persistent. Co¬ 
rolla tubular, 5-cleft. Styles two. Capsule 2-celled, 2-seeded. 
; , Very similar to Cuscuta when young ; but different in appear¬ 
ance when in flower or fruit. The stem which connects the dif¬ 
ferent clusters of flowers having then disappeared, the latter 
only remain, consisting of innumerable crowded sessile flowers, 
and scarious scales, spirally and most tightly coiled (with one or 
several turns) around the stems of the supporting plknt, which ' 
at a distance appears as if a rope were twisted round it. The 
flowers are so crowded that many are abortive, and as it were 
Strangled, presenting nothing but a bunch of scales; and others, 
-which are apparently perfect, do not mature seed. 
. I The principal difference between this genus and Cuscuta con- 
; sists in the calyx, which is not monosepalous, but is composed of 
^numerous imbricated scales; of which the two or flve exterior, 
being much smaller, may be considered as bracts ; while the ten 
inner,; which are nearly equal in size and shape, crenulate, and 
with reflexed or squarrose summits, appear to constitute the 
proper calyx. The corolla astamens, with their scales, are 
entirely similar to the correspoi^bg organs in Cuscuta: so is the 
ovary ; but the unequal style^l^e generally longer in proportion, 
and the stylopodium is as large as the ovary proper, or even lar- 
From Kms a scale, and j 
which it grows. 
i strangle : a scaly plant, strangling those < 
