Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 850
DODDER ATTACKING CLOVERSTEM. (GREATLY ENLARGED) The rate of growth is prodigious, and sooneven the strongest clover plant is over-whelmed. Not only is the draining powerof the dodder very weakening, but thethreadlike shoots increase so abundantlythat the victim is practically smothered, forits… … THE PLANT TEN DAYS LATER tion, and before its first victim has suc-cumbed, the parasite has secured a freshhold on neighboring plants. During thesummer the dodder produces its clusters ofwhite flowers, and these are followed byseeds. An unusually wide distribution of the seedis brought about by the…
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