OF THE GENUS CU&CUTA. 99 
Var. a. vulgivaga, the common form, as described and figured in Sill. Journ. and Chois. Cusc. It is Will- 
denow’s original G. Gronovii, in his Hb. nro. 3160, a very loosely flowered specimen. — On coarse herbs and shrubs, 
commonly in moist shady places, from Canada and Maine tff Florida, westward to Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas; 
I have seen no specimens from the Rocky Mountains or from the Pacific coast. Flowers 1 J-l \ lines long ; lobes of 
calyx usually carinate, and, like the lacinise, shorter than the very deeply campanulate tube of the corolla ; scales, 
mostly shorter than the tube, incurved over the ovary; corolla remaining at base of capsule. Variable in the size of 
the flowers ; a small-flowered form is G. polyantha , Shuttlew.! in PL Rugel from Alabama ; sometimes it occurs with 
4-parted flowers, var. tetrameris, Engelm. 1. c. 
Var. /3. latiflora. G. Saururi, Engelm.! 1. c. p. 336, t. 6, f. 17-21: calyx more membranaceous ; laciniee and 
stamens of equal length, as long as the shallow tube ; scales narrow and longer than the tube; in eastern specimens 
the flowers are smaller, in western sometimes larger than in var. a. — From Massachusetts to North Carolina, and 
westward to Illinois and Missouri. 
Var. y. galyptrata. G. Bonariensis, H. B . Carlsr. G. Ghilensis, H. B. Frib., not Ker.; similar to the first form, 
flowers even more deeply campanulate, usuallyglandulous, rather larger, in very loose panicles ; corolla remaining on 
top of capsule.—Western Louisiana, Gregg! Texas, Lindheimer! cultivated in several botanical gardens in Germany. 
Var. 8. V curta. G. umbrosa, Hook. 1. c. in part: flowers small, lj lines long, glandulous; calyx and short, 
broadly-oval lacinise half as long as the deeply campanulate tube ; anthers triangular-cordate; scales very short, bifid 
or truncate, oppressed to the tube ; styles one third or one fourth as long as the conic ovary ; corolla surrounding or 
covering the upper part of the large oval capsule ; intrastylar opening large ; seeds few and large, nearly 1 line long, 
compressed, somewhat rostrate, with a small, oblong, transverse hilum. — Northwestern America, Douglas! Fremont! 
I 79 Q845). — Perhaps a distinct species, taking the place of G. Gronovii on the Pacific side of the continent. 
61. C. rostrata, Shuttlew.! in sched,; Engelm.! in Bost. Journ. N. H. V. 225. G. oxycarpa , 
Engelm.! in sched. — In shady woods, on tall coarse herbs, rarely on shrubs, southern Alleghanies from [509 (59)] 
Maryland and Virginia to South Carolina, Rugel! Buckley ! Gray & SuUivant ! Curtis! —Nearly allied 
with the last, but flowers larger and wider, 2-3 lines long ; scales comparatively small, deeply incised-fringed; ovary 
elongated, bottle-shaped; capsule, with the elongated 2-pointed beak, 2£-3 lines long; seeds 1-4, when regularly 
developed 1-1J lines long, obliquely obovate, compressed, carinate on the inside, bluntly rostrate, somewhat reticulate, 
with a short oblong-linear mostly transverse hilum. 
§ 3. Lepidanche. 
Flowers pedicelled or, mostly, closely sessile; sepals free, similar to the surrounding sterile bracts, imbricate; 
ovary and capsule more or less conic, thickened and fleshy at the apex ; withered corolla covering the capsule like a 
hood. — Lepidanche, Eng. Sill. Journ. XLIII. p. 343. 
* Flowers pedicelled, loosely paniculate. 
C. cuspidata, Engelm.! in Bost. Journ. N. H. V. p. 224; Bot. Zeit. 1846, p. 277. — Parasitic on Iva , Ambro- 
' an( l many other herbs, on wet or dry prairies from southern and western Texas, Lindheimer ! 125 and 277, Wright! 
Schott! Thurber! to the upper Arkansas, Trecul! Fendler ! N. Mex. 659, b; Marcy ! Bigelow! and to the sandhills 
of the Platte, Hayden! — A well-marked and easily recognized species ; inflorescence loosely paniculate, with many 
sterile hyaline bracts on the pedicels and at the base of the calyx ; flowers membranaceous, 1£-2| (mostly 2) lines long; 
upper bracts and sepals ovate or orbicular, cuspidate or sometimes obtuse; ovary not globose, as I formerly described 
it, but oval, with a thick stylopodium; capsule thick and glandulous at the apex ; seeds rarely more than 0.4 line long, 
obovate, compressed, rostrate, with a very short oval mostly transverse hilum. The form from Platte river has the 
smallest flowers, and almost orbicular sepals. s 
Y 63 * C ; BRACTEATA > n - S P- : caulibus tenuiter filiformibus ; cymis spiciformibus paniculatis ; pedunculis pedicel- 
lisque crassis bracteis pluribus ovatis obtusis, superioribus lanceolatis acutatis stipatis ; sepalis similibus longioribus 
acuminatis serrulatis tubum corollse subcylindricum eequantibus ; laciniis lanceolatis acuminatis tubo brevioribus 
reflexis; staminibus multo brevioribus, antheris oblongo-ovatis filamento sequilongis ; squamis ovatis crispato-laceris 
medio tubo adnatis faueem attingentibus; stylis capillaceis ovario minuto multo longioribus inclusis, stigmatibus 
ovato-capitatis. . . 
Goyaz, Brazil, parasitic on shrubs, Gardner! 3348 in Hb. Hooker. — Similar to the last, but flowers I 
much larger, 2J-3 lines long in a rather contracted inflorescence ; peduncles remarkably thick in proportion [510 (60) ] 
to the stems ; stigmata oval, alinost twice as long as they are thick, a form that I have not seen in any js 
other species. The only specimen examined is barely in flower ; the ovary is probably shaped as in the last species. 1 
Y * * Flowers closely sessile, crowded in compact and often continuous clusters. 
64. C. squamata, n. sp. : caulibus filiformibus aurantiacis; glomerulis compactis ; bracteis 2-5 sub flore sin-® 
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