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To the bean root the broom-rape seedling adheres, 

 and its stem swells into a bulb, as shown in the 



OROBANCHR SPECIOSA. 



drawing. Now, having established itself, it has only 

 to continue sucking nourishment from its host, grow- 

 ing and flourishing, and in the case of this foreign 



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