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CHAPTER XX. 
Plate XXXVI. — cuscuta europjea. 
This plant is a native of England, and is found in hedges, on 
clover, or on beans, where it proves exceedingly injurious to the 
crop. It flowers from June to August. The drawing was taken 
from a specimen which grew in the Physic Gardens, Oxford. It 
is represented twining about some nettles, on which it annually 
attaches itself. 
u Of all the parasitical plants, the dodder (cuscuta) tribe are the 
most singular, trusting for their nourishment entirely to those veg¬ 
etables about which they twine, and into whose tender bark they 
insert small villous tubercles serving as roots, the original root of 
the dodder withering away entirely, as soon as the young stem has 
fixed itself to any other plant; so that its connexion with the earth 
is cut off. ” English Botany, p. 55. 
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