. The Indiana weed book. Weeds. 80 THE INDIANA WEED Fig. 46. Showing flower, fruit and seed. (After Britton and Brown.). 40 Alsinb media U Common Chickweed. (A. I. 2.) Spreading or half erect, tufted, much branched, 4-12 inches long .mooth except a line of hairs along the stem; leaves oval, J to 21 inches long, the upper sessile. Flowers very small, white, the petals 2-parted, shorter than the calyx. Capsule egg-shaped, longer than the calyx; seeds brown, kidney-shaped, flattened, 1/24 inch across, the sides coarsely tuberculate. (Figs. 12, h and 46.) Frequent in rich moist soil in gard
. The Indiana weed book. Weeds. 80 THE INDIANA WEED Fig. 46. Showing flower, fruit and seed. (After Britton and Brown.). 40 Alsinb media U Common Chickweed. (A. I. 2.) Spreading or half erect, tufted, much branched, 4-12 inches long .mooth except a line of hairs along the stem; leaves oval, J to 21 inches long, the upper sessile. Flowers very small, white, the petals 2-parted, shorter than the calyx. Capsule egg-shaped, longer than the calyx; seeds brown, kidney-shaped, flattened, 1/24 inch across, the sides coarsely tuberculate. (Figs. 12, h and 46.) Frequent in rich moist soil in gardens, lawns, meadows and pas- tures. Jan-Dec. A winter annual, blooming at all seasons. In some places used as a barometer as it ex- pands its flowers fully when fine weather is to follow but "if it should shut up, then the traveler is to put on his great ; In Eu- rope it is much used for feeding cage-birds, which are very fond of both seed and leaves. Remedies: early and thorough spring cultivation; reseeding lawns; crowd- ing out by some winter-growring crop, as rye or crimson clover. The Crowfoot or Buttercup Family.—RANUNCTJLACEiE. Annual or perennial herbs with acrid sap; leaves usually alter- nate, often compound. Flowers with the parts all distinct and unconnected; petals 3-15, sometimes wanting, in which case the calyx is colored like the corolla; sepals the same number, often falling when unfolding; stamens numerous; ovaries 1-many, 1- celled, usually 1-seeded. Fruit of our weeds an achene. (Fig* 14, /, g.) About 50 species of the family occuc-in Indiana. Among them are many of our common wild flowers of early spring and summer, as the liverworts, marsh-marigolds, larkspurs, columbines, bane- berries, anemones, clematis, buttercups and meadow-rues. Most of these are harmless plants, covering the bare places of mother earth with their green leaves and posies gay. "With us only one may as yet be listed as a weed, though others of its kind occasionall
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