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Volume 2 · 45 words · 1771 Edition

or Dodder, a genus of the tetrandra digynia clasps. The calyx consists of four segments; the corolla has but one petal; and the capsule is bilocular. The are two species, one of which is a native of Britain, viz. the Europæa, dodder, hell-weed, or devil's-guts.