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Monograph]) of the North American Cuscutinece. 
II. Lepidanche. 
Last autumn I discovered a second species of this genus, which 
imposes ttie necessity of altering the generic character. It must 
now read: Capsule 2-celled, 1-4-seeded. 
The facies of the genus refers principally to the first species ; 
the second has more the appearance of a Cuscuta, but the flowers 
are also closely sessile. 
1. Lepidanche Compositarum. —Stems before flowering orange 
colored, soon decaying. ( Cuscuta glomerata , Choisy, Mem. Soc. 
Nat. Hist. Genev., ex adnot. A. Gray.) 
2. Lepidanche adpressa, n. sp. —Flowers sessile, glomerate, 
5-parted; )calycine scales seven to nine, imbricated, appressed, 
ovate or orfeiculate, slightly crenulate, the outer ones the largest; 
tube of the corolla cylindric, a little longer than the calyx, twice 
as long as the oblong obtuse spreading lobes; stamens shorter 
than the limb; scales laciniately pinnatifid, convergent,’covering 
the ovary; ovary with the stylopodium equaling the styles; cap¬ 
sule globose, shortly acuminate, covered by the marcescent co¬ 
rolla; 2-4-seeded. ( Cuscuta compacta , Choisy, 1. c., ex adnot. 
A. Gray. C. coronata, Beyr. ap. Hook.?) 
I discovered this species last autumn, in the fertile shady woods 
on the banks of the Mississippi, amongst a most luxuriant growth of 
vines and underbrush, on Bignonia radicans, Rhus toxicodendron, 
Laurus Benzoin, Yitis, Cornus, etc. Choisy describes it from spe¬ 
cimens collected in Alabama. 
The flowers are closely sessile, but distinct, and not in such 
dense clusters as in L. Compositarum. The^^merules either 
form a continuous line round the stem of the parent plant, or they 
are separate, consisting of from five to ten or more greenish white 
flowers. The filiform stout stems are whitish, and do not en¬ 
tirely disappear at the flowering time. The capsules are gener¬ 
ally 2-seeded; but as they are not so crowded as in the other 
species, they are also found 3-4-seeded. 
Plate YI, Yol. xliii.— The tube of the flower, fig. / ought to 
be a little^horter. The lpbes of the corolla, fig. IS, are too wide j 
at base; they should be more oblong. The ovary, fig. 24, should, 
be depressed like that in fig. 28. The calyx-segments ought to 
be marked in fig. 25. 
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