. 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. 488 COMPOSITAE {.COMPOSITE FAMILY) beneath. Flowers in loose corymbose clusters, the heads on long, slender pedicels, about a half-inch broad, with six to fifteen white rays, notched at the tips; rays and disk-florets both fertile. Achenes compressed oblong, without pappus. Means of control the same as for common Yarrow. (Fig. 339.) MAYWEED Anthemis Cdtula, L. Other English names: Dog Fennel, Dog Fin
. 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. 488 COMPOSITAE {.COMPOSITE FAMILY) beneath. Flowers in loose corymbose clusters, the heads on long, slender pedicels, about a half-inch broad, with six to fifteen white rays, notched at the tips; rays and disk-florets both fertile. Achenes compressed oblong, without pappus. Means of control the same as for common Yarrow. (Fig. 339.) MAYWEED Anthemis Cdtula, L. Other English names: Dog Fennel, Dog Finkle, Dillweed, Fetid Chamomile, Stinking Daisy, White Stinkweed. Introduced. Annual and winter annual. Propagates by seeds. Time of bloom: June to October. Seed-time: July to November. Range: All over North America except the extreme North. Native of Europe, but widely distributed in Asia, Africa, and Australia. Habitat: Nearly all sous; invades almost all crops. In fields and along roadsides, and particularly in barnyards, where the soil is enriched with the constant droppings of cattle, this vile weed thrives; for no grazing animal will eat it because of its rank odor and acrid juices. The modern farmer rides his "self binder" through the grain fields and doesn't curse the Mayweeds as did the men who had to "cradle the wheat" and bind it with hand- twisted straw withes, and whose hands, arms, and feet became as though scalded from repeated contact with the acrid, glandular foliage of this weed and from its seedy tops sifting into their shoes as they swung the cradle or the scythe. "The Mayweed doth burn and the Thistle doth fret," wrote Thomas Tusser, sympathizing with his harvesters, nearly four hundred years ago; and there are localities in this country where the_ words are yet applicable. Stem six to twenty inches in height, smooth below but glandular and somewhat hairy above, much branched, and spreading. Leaves alternate, sessile, pinnate, t
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