. Diseases of cultivated plants and trees. Plant diseases; Plants -- Wounds and injuries; Plants, Protection of; Trees -- Diseases and pests. PHANEROGAMIC PARASITES 71 certain substances which protect the parasite from toxins and injurious substances secreted by the host. Fraysse, A., New Gen. Bot., 19, p. 49 (1907). Peirce, G. T., Ann. Bot, 7 (1893). The broomrapes are simple or branched plants with rather stout stems eight inches to two feet high, and covered at the lower part with sessile, scale-like leaves, destitute of chloro- v:\. Fig. 10.—Lesser Broonirape [Orobanchc minor, Sutt.). Enti


. Diseases of cultivated plants and trees. Plant diseases; Plants -- Wounds and injuries; Plants, Protection of; Trees -- Diseases and pests. PHANEROGAMIC PARASITES 71 certain substances which protect the parasite from toxins and injurious substances secreted by the host. Fraysse, A., New Gen. Bot., 19, p. 49 (1907). Peirce, G. T., Ann. Bot, 7 (1893). The broomrapes are simple or branched plants with rather stout stems eight inches to two feet high, and covered at the lower part with sessile, scale-like leaves, destitute of chloro- v:\. Fig. 10.—Lesser Broonirape [Orobanchc minor, Sutt.). Entire plant, much reduced. {E?ig. Bot.) phyll. The upper part of the stem terminates in a spike of two-lipped flowers of a dull yellow, red, or purplish colour. In one species the flowers are blue. But little real injury to economic plants is noticed in this country. I have observed O. minor (= O. Hederae of some authors) growing most profusely on the roots of ivy in Kew Gardens for many years, without apparently causing the host- plant any inconvenience. I also had several tomato plants. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Massee, George, 1850-1917. New York : Macmillan


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