. 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. 422 GOMPOSITAE (COMPOSITE FAMILY) A more slender plant than the preceding, erect, smooth, many- branched, one to two feet tall. Leaves narrow lance-shaped or the lowermost ones slashed into narrow, pointed lobes, the upper ones approaching to linear, but all acute at the apex, sharply toothed, sessile or clasping. Heads about an inch broad, with perfect djsk florets and numerous narrow yellow rays, p
. 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. 422 GOMPOSITAE (COMPOSITE FAMILY) A more slender plant than the preceding, erect, smooth, many- branched, one to two feet tall. Leaves narrow lance-shaped or the lowermost ones slashed into narrow, pointed lobes, the upper ones approaching to linear, but all acute at the apex, sharply toothed, sessile or clasping. Heads about an inch broad, with perfect djsk florets and numerous narrow yellow rays, pistillate and fertile; bracts of the involucre very slender and awl-shaped, only the outer row spreading and the inner ones erect; achenes smooth, two-toothed, with a pappus of one or two awns. Means of control the same as for the Broad-leaved Gum Plant. MARYLAND GOLDEN ASTER Chrysdpsis mariana, Nutt. Native. Perennial. Propagates by seeds. Time of bloom: August to September. Seed-time: September to October. Range: Southern New York and Penn- sylvania, southward to Florida and Louisiana. Habitat: Dry, rather sterile fields, mead- ows, and pastures. A very handsome, conspicuous plant with numerous golden flower-heads, often an inch broad, upheld in terminal, branching, flat-topped clusters. Cattle refuse to eat the plant, whether as green forage or cured with hay. Stem stout, one to two feet in height, set with silky hairs when young, but nearly smooth when old. Leaves alter- nate entire, oblong to lance-shape, or those near the base spatulate and nar- rowed to a petiole, the upper ones sessile, all silken-hairy when young but becom- ing smooth with age. Heads in co- rymbose clusters on viscid, glandular Golde°n ArteT (Chrlsopsia Peduncles, and the pointed involucral mariana). x |. bracts also are sticky-hairy; rays six-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of thes
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