312 Annual Report for 1908 of the Consulting Botanist. 
and produced seeds on the clovers, while the other plants 
only provided food for the parasite for a time. The grasses 
suffered least from the attack; they supported the dodder plants 
from twenty-one to thirty-four days in a condition vigorous 
Fig. 2.— Rye-grass attacked by dodder. 
FIG. 3.— Red clover attacked by dodder. 
FIG. 4.— Kale attacked by dodder. 
