. A manual of weeds : with descriptions of all the most pernicious and troublesome plants in the United States and Canada, their habits of growth and distribution, with methods of control . Weeds. 138 CABYOPSYLLACEAE (PINK- FAMILY) capsule is one-celled, shaped like a tiny flask, opening at the top by six outward-curving teeth. Seeds many, very small, com- pressed, rough. (Fig. 89.) Means of control Ground preferred by Sandwort is not fit to grow much else, until it has been enriched and supplied with humus, which will enable it to retain moisture; better plants will then soon take the place o
. A manual of weeds : with descriptions of all the most pernicious and troublesome plants in the United States and Canada, their habits of growth and distribution, with methods of control . Weeds. 138 CABYOPSYLLACEAE (PINK- FAMILY) capsule is one-celled, shaped like a tiny flask, opening at the top by six outward-curving teeth. Seeds many, very small, com- pressed, rough. (Fig. 89.) Means of control Ground preferred by Sandwort is not fit to grow much else, until it has been enriched and supplied with humus, which will enable it to retain moisture; better plants will then soon take the place of the weed. GRASS-LEAVED STITCHWORT Stellaria graminea, L. (Alsine graminea, Britton) Other English names: Lesser Stitehwort, Grassy Starwort. Introduced. Perennial. Propagates by seeds and by rootstocks. Time of bloom: May to July. Seed-time: June to August. Range: Nova Scotia, Quebec, and Ontario, southward to New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Habitat: Fields, meadows, and roadsides. Graceful plants, which are usually found growing in small patches, as the rootstocks send up flowering stalks at intervals of a few inches. Stems two inches to two feet high, slender, weak, four-angled, and roughened on the. angles, simple below the flower-cluster. Leaves opposite, narrowly lance-shaped, broad- est just above the base, the lower ones smaller than those near the top. Flowers in loose, terminal, many-branching cymes, on very slender, spreading pedicels; sepals narrow and pointed, slightly shorter than the five white petals, which are so deeply cleft as to look like ten, the blossoms being nearly a half- inch broad; stamens usually ten, sometimes fewer; styles usually three, occasionally four or five. Capsules oblong-ovoid, exceeding the. Fig. 90. — Grass- leaved Stitehwort (Stellaria graminea). 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 perfec
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