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- Poisonous plants. Loco-weed. cf. Bur. Pl. Ind. Bull. 246 - Atriplex polycarpa. Grinnell shows me a scrap of a plant from Los Banos which must be this species. Could not be A. lentiformis. Might be A. torreyi but I have seen no torreyi (genuine from San Joaquin. All S. J. material looks more like or is lentiformis. - Feb. 1913. - Madrono. Greene in Man. Bay. Reg. speaks of this as a samll tree. He had never seen it in Mendocino Co.
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- Teratologicl forms. L. Daniel in Trav. Sci. Univ. Rennes, [Travaux scientifiques de l'Universite de Rennes] 5 (1906), No. 2, pp. 81-98 gives the cause of teratological forms. The factors considered include the effect of over-nutrition, pruning, mutilation, and other means of disturbing the equilibrium of plants, as shown by their subsequent development. His article is on the Experimental Production of Plant Monstrosities.
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