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In contrast ,those areas around Vercelli where I first saw them in masses are now 

 abandoned and all overgrown with alder and willow. Since then I have found them in 

 two places which are located between cultivated fields but without any sign ofimported 

 seeds and the surroundings made up ofold meadows ; and, as I said, the rye- and 

 cornfields planted with native seed. I was otherwise in favorofthe introduction ofthe 

 GuanO'fertilization as a factor but the earliest place I found the plant ( already in the fall 

 of 1829) is against that but I found the plants now easily recognized by me about 100 

 Steps further down the bend in an area I had examined weekly for a variety of 

 mushrooms found in ??-grass. Finally somebody from my audience who is himselfan 

 ardent botanist found the controversial Cuscuta in a small unimportant village near 

 Oldenico about a mile north ofhere in a valley between Sefia and its thbutary Cervo, 

 growing in masses in an imgation dam that he himselfhad established in 1831. He did 

 not repognize the Speeles; but it appeared to be quite different from Cuscuta major 

 and attracted his attention even ifhis f armers told him that it 

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