. Weeds and weed seeds illustrated and described [microform]. Weeds; Mauvaises herbes; Mauvaises herbes; Weeds. WEEDS AND WEKD SEEDS. 35 I, Sheep Sorrel (liumeT Accloi^flhi is nat now rommon in all parts of the country. It is j xtcnsively spreading, yellow, fleshy niotstoeks. Stems slender, (i to 18 inches, erect Or nearly so, branched above. Leaves with silvery ear-like appendages, spreading outward from "the base, narrowly arrow-head-shaped, toothless, 1 to 4 inches long, quite smooth and rather fleshy, on long stidks. Flowers numerous in |)anicle-like racemes, of two kinds on sepa
. Weeds and weed seeds illustrated and described [microform]. Weeds; Mauvaises herbes; Mauvaises herbes; Weeds. WEEDS AND WEKD SEEDS. 35 I, Sheep Sorrel (liumeT Accloi^flhi is nat now rommon in all parts of the country. It is j xtcnsively spreading, yellow, fleshy niotstoeks. Stems slender, (i to 18 inches, erect Or nearly so, branched above. Leaves with silvery ear-like appendages, spreading outward from "the base, narrowly arrow-head-shaped, toothless, 1 to 4 inches long, quite smooth and rather fleshy, on long stidks. Flowers numerous in |)anicle-like racemes, of two kinds on separate i)lants; the male flowers h.'ive conspicuous stamens; Mie female are much less showy and are tipped with three tiny, crimson, feather-like organs (the stigmas). The seeds, .is they occur among clover and grass seeds, are generally coveri'd by the three larger conspicuously veined i- visions whicii fit doselv over the seed. The naked' seed, when the calyx divisions are removed, is J,j of an inch long and nearlv as broad shining. The .seeds are of one the most' abundant .-iceds, being especially common in alsike. Kradi (ioo<i cultivation with hoed crops. Pasture w uralized from I'urope and is rennial and very [)ersistent by f â¦. .triangular-ovate, pale brown, impurities in and grass «(^((//. Application of lime, ith sheep. Lady's Thumb (PoIikjohiiw I'trsicnna ) is the country, especially in low fields and meadows and others of the Knolweeds and Smartweeds .are widely distributed, they are not seriously noxious in most field and "gardiii crops. Th'e stems are erect, ;shy. nearly smooth, hairless. L(>;ives lance-shaped, pointed, nearlv stalkless. the roughish, often dotted .-ind markccj with a triangular or round <pot near the centre. The mode of flowering is an cvoid or short cylindrical spike, dense, erect, of pink \\ ~ I IiuiiiIj I'l-l. I>, r-i. !ir\ "-\: â Â¥ n >:â about ,'_, of an inch in
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