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THE AMERICAN BOTANIST 



consisting of the slender twining stem and minute scale-leaves, 

 broken here and there by small clusters of whitish flowers. 

 These flower masses vary in the number of flowers, having 

 from two to twenty-five flowers in a compact cyme. The 

 individual flower is a small campanulate blossom, arranged 

 on the plan of five. In color it is a dull white with here and 



Stems and Flowers of the Dodder. 



there a pale greenish tinge. There are lacerate scales within 

 the flower throat, the stamens usually being attached just above 

 the scale. 



The dodder, of which there are in the State seven kinds, 

 was first collected here by Douglas. Most of our dodders are 

 forms which have come in with seed from Europe and have 

 spread rapidly from the centers of infection. The dodder 



