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The dodder is given a plate in the report of the Botanist of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture for 1890 and is men- 

 tioned as prevalent in Missouri. 



These notes only increase the value of a record of the out- 

 break that was experienced by the farmers in New Jersey in 1897. 



The second flower-bearing clover parasite is the broom-rape 

 {Orobanche minor J. E. S.). Mr. L. S. Davis, a college student 

 from Cumberland county, brought me specimens of this plant 

 which he found growing in some abundance upon the red clover 

 m the southern part of the State near Shiloh. 



While a somewhat familiar plant in the Old World this clover 

 parasite is rarely met with in the United States. After an exam- 

 ination of a long list of state and local floras the writer fails to find 

 't listed outside of New Jersey, except in Ward's Guide to the 

 Flora of Washington and Vicinity and Holm's Additions to Flora 

 of Washington in which it is recorded that Prof. E. S. Burgess 

 found it at Mount Vernon Square. Gray's Flora of North 



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not being recorded with the specimens that are in the herbarium. 



In Britton's Flora of New Jersey mention is made of three 

 ot her localities in the State where the broom-rape has been taken. 



From all that is learned the Shiloh region is the only one 

 u 'here the parasite has become so abundant in the United States as 

 to attract attention and prove destructive to the clover. If the Oro- 

 oanche minor is more widely distributed than the above note would 

 Su ggest the writer would be pleased to learn of its range. 



« is also remarked that the broom-rape made its presence felt 

 ln ^e same year when the dodder of the same host was most abun- 

 dant for a long time. The peculiarities of an excessively wet July 

 w hen the rainfall was 1 1 .42 inches and more than double the aver- 

 age amount, may have had something to do with the outbreak in 

 e °* D °th of the phaenogamous parasites. 



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