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1The New York Botanical Garden and Department of Botany, Columbia University
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This investigation was supported in part by a research grant from the National Microbiological Institute of the National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service. The authors wish to acknowledge the technical assistance of Marvin Cohen, Jane Bancroft and Alice Hesse.