POLEMONIACEAE (POLEMONIUM FAMILY) 329 
“Like a living skein enlacing, 
Coiling, climbing, turning, chasing,” 
will embrace anything from a tall New Eng- 
land aster to an onion, or even some shrubby 
plants, such as the willows, and it is a high 
climber. 
Stems deep yellow to orange, rather coarse. 
Flowers very numerous, in dense clusters; 
corolla bell-shaped, waxen white, and its five 
lobes, as well as those of the calyx, rounded 
instead of pointed, the scales within the 
tubes thickly fringed at summit, more spar- 
ingly at the sides; stamens exserted. Cap- 
sules globose or short-pointed ovoid. Seeds 
comparatively rather large. (Fig. 227.) 
Wherever the Common Dodder attacks 
cultivated plants, both it and they should 
be treated with scythe and fire before any 
seed ripens. 
SKUNKWEED 
Fie. 227. —- Common 
Navarrétia squarrésa, H. and A. Dodder (Cuscuta Gro- 
(Gilia squarrésa, H. and A.) novit). Xt. 
Other English names: Stinkweed, Pepperweed, Sticky Gilia. 
Native. Annual or biennial. Propagates by seeds. 
Time of bloom: May to July. 
Seed-time: June to September. 
Range: Washington, California, and Nevada. 
Habitat: Grain fields, meadows, and vineyards. 
A troublesome and most disagreeable weed, viscidly glandular 
and unpleasant to touch, very bitter to the taste, and emitting a 
strong, fetid odor. Hay and grain among which it grows are 
damaged by contact with it, for the offensive smell of-its sticky 
secretions is persistent and cattle reject not only the weed but 
also the hay that has been cured in touch with it. 
Stem eight to fourteen inches tall, erect, rigid, branching from 
the base, often of a ruddy or a brownish hue, and covered with 
glandular hairs. Leaves alternate, once or twice pinnatifid, the 
