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7. CuscutTa Gronovil Willdenow. Common dodder. 
[Figure V.] 
C. Gronovii Willdenow in Roemer & Schultes Syst., 6:205. 1820. 
This is the commonest of our Indiana species. It is frequently found in 
low wet places forming large mats of entangled, yellow stems. It seems to 
prefer Impatiens or Salix, but will utilize any host within reach haying 
been found on one occasion coiling about and penetrating the stems of 
Equisetum. It has been reported as causing slight damage to onions 
grown in muck soil. 
Fig. V.—Cuscuta Gronovii. x4. 
Specimens examined :—Delaware Co., Muncie (Brady in 1896); St. Joseph Co., 
Notre Dame (Niewwland 11,500), Clear Lake (Deam 26,391) ; Olio (Wilson in 1897) ; 
Jefferson Co., Hanover (Coulter in 1876), Manville (Deam 18,784); Franklin Co., 
Brookville (Deam in 1903) ; Posey Co., Mt. Vernon (Deam 22,339) ; Vigo Co., Ather- 
ton (Deam 24,014) ; Dubois Co., Huntingburg (Deam 28,267) ; Jackson Co., Vallonia 
(Deam 80,240); Knox Co., Vollmer (Deam 26,575) ; Marion Co., Indianapolis (Yunck- 
er in 1916); Porter Co., Waverly Beach (Deam 29,812); Wayne Co., Richmond 
(Deam 238,860); Clark Co., (Deam 5,473 & 7,600), Jeffersonville (Deam 238,800) 3 
Harrison Co., Elizabeth (Deam 26,831) ; Adams Co., Decatur (Deam 5,364, in part) ; 
Whitley Co., Shriner Lake (Deam in 1897), Blue River Lake (Deam 21,696) ; Steuben 
Co., Clear Lake (Deam in 1904), Gage Lake (Deam in 1906) ; Brown Co., Helmsburg 
(Deam 12,225) ; Noble Co., Albion (Deam 14,701) ; Lagrange Co., Pretty Lake (Deam 
14,888) ; Hamilton Co., Noblesville (Deam 12,129); Decatur Co., St. Paul (Deam 
9,535) ; Carroll Co., Monticello (Deam 15,339). 
8. CuscuTa HprrtymMuM Murray. Clover dodder. 
C. Epithymum Murray, Linn. Syst., 13 ed., p. 140, 1774. 
This species is usually found parasitic on leguminous crops, principally 
