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nulate tub?of the corolla; lobes of the corolla long acuminate, 
some whatx longer than the tube; stamens half as long as the 
limb ; scaled ovate fimbriate, rather larger than the tube ; ovary 
globose, depressed, without,stylopodium; capsule depressed.—The 
tissue of the corolla is composed of large irregular cells. 
6. Cuscuta hispidula, n. sp. —Stem low; cymes loose, few 
flowered, hairy or nearly smooth; flowers very long peduncled 
(small), 5-parted; tube of the corolla turbinate-campanulate, 
twice the length of the ovate subacute segments of the calyx, 
shorter than the long acuminate somewhat crenulate spreading 
lobes; stamens half as long as the limb; scales ovate, fimbriate, 
nearly ^equaling the tube; ovary with a stylopodium and short 
styles. r 
Texas, in dry and sterile prairies west of Houston. Flowering 
in April and May. Compare the remarks made in YoL.xlih,' p. 
341*, under C. verrucosa. 
7. Cuscuta neuropetala, n. sp. —Cymes uhibelliformj/sfep'poth, 
flowers pedunculate (large), 5-parted ; tube of the corolla campa- 
nulate, nearly equal in length to the ovate-lanceolate acute cari¬ 
nate segments of the calyx, and the ovate short-acuminite one- 
nerved crenulate spreading lobes; stamens rather shorter than 
the limb; scales ovate, fimbriate, incurved, as long as.the tube; 
styles rather longer than the ovary with the stylopodium. 
Texas, in wet prairies near Houston; on different Composite, 
such as Liatris, Solidago, Helianthu^. Rudbeckia, and,on Myrica 
cerifera; flowering in August; F. hindheimer. 
Flowers rather large, but variable in size; segments of calyx 
always very acute, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, somewhat shorter 
6r a little longer than the tube of the corolla. Anthers yellow 
or purple; stigmas purple. 
This and the last species resemble in the structure of the corolla 
the more northern C. Coryli; they have the same crenulated 
margin, the same fleshy cellular texture, similar incurved tips of 
the acute lobes, and the same white color, which isjjot altered 
in well-dried specimens. 
C. neuropetala is distinguished from C. hispidula by its per¬ 
fect smoothness, its flowers being twice or three times as large, 
its more compact, umbelliform cymes; the whole plant is taller, 
(in my specimens twelve to eighteen inches high.) The calyx 
segments, at least the three outer ones, are carinate; the lobes of 
