. Common weeds of Canada [microform] : a pocket guide. Weeds; Mauvaises herbes, Lutte contre les; Weeds; Mauvaises herbes. COMMON WEEDS OF CANADA 87 moist soils. It has been introduced from Europe, where it is sometimes grown for pasture purposes, and is now naturalized on lawns, by roadsides, and in meadows and pastures in most of the settled parts of Canada. It is considered a bad weed, especially when it appears on , and since he «eeds of it are very common in grass and clover seed, persons buying the latter chould examine such closely and guard against plantain seeds. Group No. 30—Ma
. Common weeds of Canada [microform] : a pocket guide. Weeds; Mauvaises herbes, Lutte contre les; Weeds; Mauvaises herbes. COMMON WEEDS OF CANADA 87 moist soils. It has been introduced from Europe, where it is sometimes grown for pasture purposes, and is now naturalized on lawns, by roadsides, and in meadows and pastures in most of the settled parts of Canada. It is considered a bad weed, especially when it appears on , and since he «eeds of it are very common in grass and clover seed, persons buying the latter chould examine such closely and guard against plantain seeds. Group No. 30—Madder Family. BLUETS, OR INNOCENCE. Houstonia ccerulea, (L). Smooth, slender, erect, :{-.') inches entire, oblong; stijuiles l)etween Root.—Fibrous. Stem high. Leaves.—Opposite, leaves. Flowers.—Light-blue, purplish or almost while, with yellowish eye; corolla salver-form; 4 stamens; 2 stigmas. Fruit.— A pod somewhat 2-lobed, its upi)er half free, ojiening across the top; few seeds in each cell. Seeds. — Saucer-shaped or thimble- shajjed, with a deep hole occupying the face, small, brownish. Duration.—Annual. Flowering. — May — September. Seeding.— June — October. Propagation.— liy seeds. Dispersal.—Seeds carried by birds and winds. Eradication.—> ireful cultivation. Bluets was named by Linnaeus for P" Houston, an English physician, who botanized on the coast of Mexico, and Hied there. Bluets is a delicate, pretty little plant found on mossy banks and in grassy places. This little plant is not usually listed with weeds. Dr. Jas. Fletcher, of Ottawa, said: "Surely bluets is not a weed"; but in some sections old fields and roadsides are in early spring tinted blue by the pretty flowers of bluets. Galium, Bedstraw, or Cleavers, named from the Greek for milk, \vhich some species 'vill curdle, is a member of the Madder BLUSTS, OR INNOCBNCB Houstonia camUa, (L) f i- ? '. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned pa
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