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Cuscuta europaea L.
Engl.: greater dodder, beggarweed, common dodder, devil's guts, European dodder, hellweed, scaldweed, strangle tare.
Deu.: Nessel-Seide.
Sven.: nässelsnärja, nässelsilke, snarreva, vanlig nässelsnärja.
Suom.: humalanvieras.
Bot. syn.: Cuscuta halophyta Fr.

Pre-Linnaean: The English flora, 1825, by Sir James Edward Smith:
Cuscuta europaea. Linn. Sp. Pl. 180. Willd. v. 1.702. Fl. Br. 282. Engl. Bot. v. 6.378. Gent. Mag. v. 19. 349. t. 351. Hook. Lond. t. 67. Scot. 86. Fl. Dan. t. 199. Ehrh. Pl. Off. 362.
Cuscuta .n. 654, major. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 291.
Cuscuta major. Bauh. Pin. 209.
Cuscuta. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 616. f. Camer. Epit. 984. f. Ger. Em. 577. f.
Cassutha. Fuchs. Hist. 347. t. 348. Dod. Pempt. 554. f. Dalech. Hist. 1683. f.
Androsaces, vulgo Cuscuta. Trag. Hist. 810. f.