. The American journal of science and arts . ce 1838 in similarlocalities ; flowering in August and September. These varietiesmay prove distinct species; but for the present I am unable todistinguish them by more important characters than those givenabove. The flowers are always 5-parted ; the tube is not exactly cy-lindrical, but a little wider at the mouth than at the base, ratherobconic. The styles are longer than in any of our Cuscutas, andalmost always unequal ; they are inserted on a distinct stylopo-dium, which is larger than in any Cuscuta. The stigma is cap-itate, as in all American C
. The American journal of science and arts . ce 1838 in similarlocalities ; flowering in August and September. These varietiesmay prove distinct species; but for the present I am unable todistinguish them by more important characters than those givenabove. The flowers are always 5-parted ; the tube is not exactly cy-lindrical, but a little wider at the mouth than at the base, ratherobconic. The styles are longer than in any of our Cuscutas, andalmost always unequal ; they are inserted on a distinct stylopo-dium, which is larger than in any Cuscuta. The stigma is cap-itate, as in all American Cuscutas. * This is manifestly the Cuscuta Americana (from St. Louis) of Hookers ac-count of Drummonds collections, in the Companion to the Botanical Magazine,I, p. 173; of which it is remarked, that Some of the specimens seem to have allthe flowers abortive, and turned into scales, which are excessively crowded, andform a dense wreath of a pale slraw-color, around the branch of some shrub. .VMi jorfi. s Il. OCT. 1842. :xoiiTH A^vii-rnirAT^ (TrsnrnxF^ i>v jiv- irxGKLi\i,A^Tc. T., poSV Olb Catalogue of the Mammalia of Connecticut. 345 EXPLANATION OF PLATE VI. Fig. 1-6. Cuscuta Cephalanthi.—1. A tetramerous; 2, a pentame-rous flower. 3. Corolla laid open. 4. The ovary. 5. Vertical sec-tion of a half-grown capsule. 6. Capsule invested by the remains ofthe corolla. Fig. 7-11. —7. A flower. 8. Corolla laid open. 9. Ova-ry and styles. 10. Same of var. (?. 11. Capsule invested by the re-mains of the corolla. Fig. 12-16. —12-14. Flowers. 15. Corolla laid Ovary. Fig. 17-21. C. Saururi.—17. The flower. 18. Corolla laid open,with the inflexed scales. 19. Ovary. 20. Vertical section of the half-grown capsule. 21. Mature capsule. Fig. 22-24. C. pentagona.—22. Flower. 23. Corolla laid Ovary. Fig. 25. C. verrucosa.—Flower, Fig. 26-29. C. Polygonorum.—26. Flower. 27. Corolla laid Ovary. 29. Capsule.
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