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Halsted : Two Phaenogamous Parasites 



the timothy grass when associated, as it frequently is, with the 

 clover in the meadow. 



In looking over a large number of state and local floras 



this 



dodder is mentioned in but two. Beal and Wheeler's " Michigan 

 Flora," 1892, page 117, states "introduced at Salem with alfalfa 



seed. 



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223, and also in his " Preliminary Catalogue." The same author 

 in his " Illustrated Descriptive List of Weeds" figures the clover 

 dodder and states that " only one report of this dreaded parasfo 

 so detrimental to clover fields has come to me in this State ; that 

 from Greenbrier county where it was probably imported in clover 



seed from England." 



