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-COLLECTED DESCRIPTIONS OF CUSCUTA. 
y From the Botanische Zeitung, Vol. IV. No. 16, April 17, 1846. 
C* ctiPULATA, Engelm. in litt. : caule capillaeeo; gleraerulis multifloris, capiiatis, sessilibus ; floribus arete ses- 
silibns, pentameris ; calycis campannlatl, cupulati lobis transversim ovatis, apice carinatis, abrupte cuspidatis ; tubo 
corollse eampanulato, calyce breviore, lacimas limbi ovatas, acntiusculas, erectas, demum patentes sequante ; staminibus 
limbo brevioribus, filamentis filiformibm, antkeris orbicnlaribus ; squamulis truncatis, apiGe fimbriatis, convergentibus ; 
stylis enm atigmatibus ovarium globoso-depressum dupl© superantibus, apice divergentibus ; stigmatibus stylorum 
longitudine ; corolla circum capsulam globosam drcumsciasam mareescente. 
Biese, der G. Epithymum naher als der G. Europcea verwandte Art, wurde von Godet am Caucasua, von Lede- 
bour am Altai gesammelt. Choisy begreift sie mit Unreeht unter G. mayor. — A. Braun. 
From Gray’s Manual, ed. t, Boston and Cambridge, 1848. 
2. C. chlorocarp a, Engelm. : low, orange-colored ; 'flowers almost sepile, clustered; corolla mostly 4-cleft, 
open-bell-shaped, the tube about the length of the acute dobes and calyx teeth , remaining persistent around the base of the 
depressed pod, the scales cut-fringed or cleft ^rather small) ; stamens as long as the lobes, ffi. Polygonorum, Engelm .) — 
Low grounds, covering Pdlygona and other herbs, Ohio and westward. 
3. CL tenuiflora, Engelm. : much branched, twining high, pale-colored; flowers at length peduncled r 
and in rather loose cymes; tube of the corolla cylindrical |(ventricose after flowering), twice the length of the obtuse [351] 
spreading doles and of the ovate obtuse calyx-lobes, in fruit borne on the summit of the depressed pod; scales ovate, 
cut-fringed; stamens shorter than the lobes of the corolla. £0. Cephdlanthi, Eng elm.$ — Swamps, common through 
the Western States, on Gephalanthue and various tall herbs. 
From Gratis Manual, % ed., New York, 1868. 
3. CL INFLEXA, Engelm. : flowers peduncled, in umbel-like cymes, 1" long ; tube of the mostly deleft corolla [378] 
as long as the ovate acutish and minutely crenate erect infiexeddobes and the acute keeled calyx lobes ; scales minute 
and few-toothed, appressed; pod depressed, somewhat umbonate, of a thicker texture, brown, its top covered with the 
remains of the corolla. %G. Goryli , Engelm. G. umbrosa, Beyrich , and Ed. 2.) —* Prairies and barrens, in rather dry 
soil, on Hazels, Geanothus, and other shrubs or herbs ; from Western Virginia and Illinois southward and westward. 
From Parry’s Botanical Observations in Southern Utah, No. 5. (Amer. Nat., Vol. IX. 1875.) 
v/ 205. Cuscuta denticulata, XL. sp. : stems very slender, hair-like ; flowers few, in loose glomerules, on [348] 
short pedicels^small ^scarcely one line long), white ; lobes of the deeply divided globular calyx almost orbicular, 
overlapping, concave, thinly membranaceous, denticulate, covering the short campanulate t( finally urceolate) tube of 
the corolla ; lobes broadly oval, obtuse, spreading, at last reflexed, as long as the tube ; scales narrow, denticulate, reach¬ 
ing to the base of the ovate, almost sessile anthers ; styles slender, as long as the conical, pointed ovary, bearing slightly 
thickened (scarcely capitate) stigmas ; capsule covered by the withering corolla, indehisceut l(?), enclosing one or two 
seeds. — St. George, Utah, on shrubs and herbs Goleogym , Biscutelldfy in arid soil; the first addition to our Cuscuta- 
flora since my synopsis was published, 16 years ago. Apparently allied to G. applanata, Eng., of Arizona, but with 
much smaller Howers and an acute, not depressed ovary, different calyx, etc. 
206. G. CdliforniccL, var.i(?) squamigera , Engelm. Ouse. p. 499. On Sueeda diffusa, Watson. Originally found in 
the same region by Remy and in Arizona by Dr. Palmer, always on saline herbs .; no collector has obtained the fruit 
as yet. 
From the Botany of California, Vol. I. Cambridge, 1876. 
3. O. salina, Engelm. n. sp. : stems slender; flowers (If to 2§ lines long) pedicelled in loose cymes, [536] 
shorter and wider than in the next [C. subinclusa j; lobes of the calyx ovate-lanceolate, acute, as dong 
mens collected in Alabama and Georgia ; the notice in 
Silliman’s ’Journal, Vol. XL1V. p. 195, must therefore be 
corrected. —It is very near Guscuta {Lepidancho) adpressa, 
which thus far has only been found on the bottom lands of 
the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers. This is again a remark¬ 
able instance*of two nearly allied species; one growing in the 
mountainous region of the Southern States, the other in 
the western lowlands. Analogies offer in Baptisia alba and 
leucantha, Phacelia fimbriata sxA Purshii, and others. The 
mountain species is distinguished from its western relative 
by the closer and compacter glomerules, and much more slen¬ 
der and mostly smaller flowers. The tube of the corolla 
exceeds the compact scales of the calyx considerably, and is 
much narrower in proportion to its length; it gives, there¬ 
fore, to the capsule which it covers a much more pointed 
appearance, though the capsule itself is nearly globose. This 
appearance of the vestiges of the corolla on the eapsule dis¬ 
tinguishes this species from C. adpressa just after flowering. 
The corolla appears to be more 'membranaceous than in the 
western species, and remains whitish whoa well preserved in 
the herbarium ; the other usually turns reddish-brown. 
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