CUSCUTA HASSIACA. 
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1. Lepidanqhe Compositarum. — Stems before flowering orange-colored, soon decaying. {Cuscuta , 
Choisy, Mem. Soc. Nat.; Hist. Genev., ex adnot. A. Gray.) 
2. Lepidanche adpressa, n. sp.: flowers sessile, glomerate, 5-parted; calycine scales 7 to 9 r imbricated, 
appressed, ovate or orbiculate, slightly crenulate, the outer ones the largest; tube of the corolla cylindrie, a little 
longer than the calyx, twice as long as the oblong obtuse spreading lobes; stamens shorter than the limb ; scales 
]|aciniately pinnatifid, convergent, covering the ovary ; ovary with the stylopodium equalling the styles ; capsule 
globose, shortly acuminate, covered by the marcescent corolla ; 2-4-seeded. (Cuscuta compacta, Choisy, 1. e., 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* Lauras Benzoin, Yitis, Comus, 
etc. Choisy describes it from specimens collected in Alabama. 
The flowers are closely sessile, but distinct, and not in such dense clusters as in L. compositarum. The glome-- 
rules 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 entirely disappear at the flower¬ 
ing time. The capsules are generally 2-seeded ; but as they are not so crowded as in the other species, they are also 
found 3-4-seeded. 
Plate VI. Yol. XLIII. — The tube of the flower, fig. 1, ought to be a little shorter. The lobes of the corolla, 
fig. 18, are too wide 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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