. 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. SCROPHULARIACEAE (FIGWORT FAMILY) Is well but will leave the ground clean when the chemical "has leacned away. Do not use a cultivator in ground befouled with Toad-flax; it only serves to spread the weed; hoe and hand-labor are more effective. If the plants are kept persistently and deeply cut throughout the growing season, the underground stems will finally starve to death. MARYLAND FIGWORT Scr
. 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. SCROPHULARIACEAE (FIGWORT FAMILY) Is well but will leave the ground clean when the chemical "has leacned away. Do not use a cultivator in ground befouled with Toad-flax; it only serves to spread the weed; hoe and hand-labor are more effective. If the plants are kept persistently and deeply cut throughout the growing season, the underground stems will finally starve to death. MARYLAND FIGWORT Scrophularia marildndica, L. Other English names: Pilewort, Heal-all. Native. Perennial. Propagates by seeds. Time of bloom: July to September. Seed-time: August to October. Range: Massachusetts to South Carolina, Kansas, and Louisiana. Habitat: Lowland meadows, fence rows, and borders of woods. The knotted roots of this plant have long been reputed a cure for scrofula, piles, and other diseases, and are salable in the drug-market. The time for col- lecting is in autumn, when the summer's growth has stored the roots for winter's sustenance. Stem erect, slender, four-angled, smooth except for the glandular hairs on its flower stalks, usually much branched, often purplish red in color, three to eight feet tall. Leaves three inches to a foot in length, opposite, dark green, ovate, long-pointed, saw-toothed, with promi- nent veins and long, slender petioles. Flowers in long, open, leafless panicles at the summit of the stem and the branches; corolla about a quarter-inch long, dull green outside, glossy purple within, with spreading lower lip and Fig. 265. — Maryland Fig- *\ B . . .-, wort VSchrophularia man- uPPer one erect> two Pa""S of fertile landica). x i. stamens of unequal length and a sterile. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustration
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