. 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. 86 URTIOACEAE {NETTLE FAMILY) perianth but have six to eight stamens and a one-celled ovary, sunk in the fleshy rachis of the spike and having three or four spreading stigmas; each flower is subtended by a minute white bract. The whole plant has a very pungent, spicy odor. Fruit a berry or capsule, with three to four carpels each containing six to ten very small rounded seeds. (Fig. 46.) Means of con
. 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. 86 URTIOACEAE {NETTLE FAMILY) perianth but have six to eight stamens and a one-celled ovary, sunk in the fleshy rachis of the spike and having three or four spreading stigmas; each flower is subtended by a minute white bract. The whole plant has a very pungent, spicy odor. Fruit a berry or capsule, with three to four carpels each containing six to ten very small rounded seeds. (Fig. 46.) Means of control Drainage; followed by intensive hoe-cultivation, alternated with heavy seeding to grass or HEMP Cdnnabis satlva, L. Introduced. Annual. Propagates by seeds. Time of bloom: July to September. Seed-time: August to November. Range: New Brunswick to On- tario and Minnesota, southward to North Carolina, Tennessee, and Kansas. Habitat: Barnyards, waste places. Seeds of hemp are often an impurity of other seeds, notably of oats, particularly if grown in the hemp-raising districts of the country. The writer first saw the plant flourishing finely in a vacant lot behind a city livery stable. (Fig. 47.) Stem three to ten feet in height, rather stout, erect and holding its branches nearly upright, the inner bark fibrous and extremely tough and strong, the whole plant rough-hairy and strong- scented. Leaves compound, with five to seven very slender leaflets, Fig. -Hemp (Cannabis sativa).. 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 perfectly resemble the original Georgia, Ada Eljiva, 1859-1921. New York : Macmillan
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