CONVOLVULACE.E 



of the soil, and thereupon the parasites sent aerial roots 

 right into the flax and their natural roots dwindled and 

 perished. Thereafter their true parasitical growth was 

 most rapid to the detriment of the foster plant." 

 Ada Georgia has a pointed account of the plant: 

 "This species is probably the most widely known of its 

 tribe. Like the Field Dodder, it seems indifferent as to its 

 hosts and 



"Like a living skein, enlacing, 

 Coiling, climbing, turning, chasing, 



will embrace anything, from a tall New England Aster to 

 an onion or even some shrubby plant, such as the willows, 

 and it is a high climber." "Wherever it attacks cultivated 

 plants, both it and they should be treated with scythe 

 and fire before any seed ripens." 



One other member of the Convolvulus Family has been 

 reported. 



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