ments, the limb of the corolla is also much shorter in propor- 
tion to the tube, with blunter-ended segments; but a far more 
material point is, that the Stamens in odorata are described 
and figured with filaments, while in chilensis the anthers are 
sessile; nor is any notice taken in either figure or description 
of odorata of the different lengths of the two styles so re- 
markable in chilensis. Both are natives of no very distant 
parts of the same continent. 
We are informed by the very intelligent superintend- 
ent of the Horticultural Society’s Garden, Mr. Monro, 
that the plant has been lately introduced from South Ame- 
rica. ‘The annexed figure, which was drawn in the above 
garden, represents it clinging to the Red Malabar Night- 
shade (BasEeLia rubra) which had been selected in the hot- 
house for the foster-plant. The flowers seem larger in pro- 
portion to the greater succulence of the plant on which their 
parent grows. . 
In the Banksian Herbarium we found an unnamed sample 
of the species collected by Mr. Menzies at Valparaiso, in 
Chili. The genus consists wholly of parasites, or, as they were 
formerly termed, superplants. The English species, which 
are two, are called Dodder. Dotter is one of the German 
names for them, though it belongs likewise to other very 
different vegetables. The Spanish Creoles of South America 
call them Cabellos de Angel (Angel's hair). 
Doddered, as an epithet to trees, has probably been used 
metonymically, being intended for a tree covered with any 
of the smaller kinds of superplants, such as Liverworts, 
&e. &e. Shakespeare applies the term to the Oak; but 
Dodders attend only upon herbaceous plants, and the smaller 
shrubs, and are never found upon trees. We suspect that 
Dodder was formerly a general appellation for all the 
lesser vegetable parasites. 
The seed should be sown near the intended support. 
Roots are soon sent forth, and the seedling is sustained by 
the soil until it has settled itself, when with the lower part 
of the stem, it withers away; and thus flowering, seed- 
‘ing, and withering at the bottom in succession, while it 
~ grows on at the top, it overruns and often either starves or 
stifles in the end the vegetable on which it has fed. 
