. Farm weeds of Canada . PURPLE- COCKLE- (Lychnis G «//,) Plate 15. CHICKWE-&D IShellaria media, v«. v, ) PLATE 15. COMMON CHICKWEED. Slellaria media. Smith. Other English name : Chickweed. Othar Latin names : Alsinc -media, L.; Stellaria media, With. Introduced. Annual. Succulent, diffusely branching, hair-like and exceedingly tough. Leaves ovate, the lower ones withciliate-hairy petioles. Stems bearing a conspicuous stripe of articulatedhairs down one side. Flowers i inch in diameter, atar-shaped, numerous,solitary from the axils of the leaves, in old plants in termin
. Farm weeds of Canada . PURPLE- COCKLE- (Lychnis G «//,) Plate 15. CHICKWE-&D IShellaria media, v«. v, ) PLATE 15. COMMON CHICKWEED. Slellaria media. Smith. Other English name : Chickweed. Othar Latin names : Alsinc -media, L.; Stellaria media, With. Introduced. Annual. Succulent, diffusely branching, hair-like and exceedingly tough. Leaves ovate, the lower ones withciliate-hairy petioles. Stems bearing a conspicuous stripe of articulatedhairs down one side. Flowers i inch in diameter, atar-shaped, numerous,solitary from the axils of the leaves, in old plants in terminal leafy cymes;petals white, about the length of the thin-margined calyx lobes. Capsulesconic-ovoid, spreading or deflexed, longer than the calyx. Seeds [Plate 12—natural size and enlarged 8 times] small, ^ of an inch in diameter;wedge-kidney-shaped, flattened and coarsely tuberculate, the tubercles ar-ranged in regular curved rows, about 5 on each side and 4 on the edge. Col-our, yellowish brown to dark brown. Time of Flowering: At all times of the year,
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