Your weeds and your neighbor's : part 3 illustrated descriptive list of weeds . Poverty Grass. (P.) Juncus tenuis, Willd. Growing thickly along roadsides, in fields, andmany old meadows, this grass-like plant causes muchcomment among those who judge it to be a grass, yetone upon which cattle grow poor and almost leaves of this species will be found upon close ex-amination to be tubular and very different from thoseof any known grass. This species grows in damp places, and thoughit will yield to cultivation where the ground is not toomoist, it generally shows by its presence that dra
Your weeds and your neighbor's : part 3 illustrated descriptive list of weeds . Poverty Grass. (P.) Juncus tenuis, Willd. Growing thickly along roadsides, in fields, andmany old meadows, this grass-like plant causes muchcomment among those who judge it to be a grass, yetone upon which cattle grow poor and almost leaves of this species will be found upon close ex-amination to be tubular and very different from thoseof any known grass. This species grows in damp places, and thoughit will yield to cultivation where the ground is not toomoist, it generally shows by its presence that drainageis necessary. This measure properly carried out willkill out the weed. Poverty Grass. 182. Wood (P.) Luzuhi campcstris (Z.), DC. On dry fields and borders as well as in opens, this species,with its flat grass-like leaves is often mistaken for some strangegrass with peculiar straw-colored flowers. It is, however, a rushand of very little nutritive quality, and should be grubbed out orthe fields renewed and put in cultivation until such plants yield. CALLA 183. Skunks Cabbage. (P.) Spathyema foetida (Z.), Raf. This peculiar cabbage-like plant of low lands and wet mead-ows, the bruised leaves of which emit an odor strongly remindingone of the animal from which it has received its common name,throws up its peculiar purple calla-like flower in early spring, whichis soon followed by the rapid growth of its immense leaves. Theroots are large and deep, and the low growth of the spreading leavescrowds out ever5thing in the vegetable line that grows near it. Theplants should be grubbed out annually until they are conquered, un- 291 less the quantity of the growth is too great for such a measure, inwhich case, drainage should be resorted to, as these plants can notlive without more moisture than is needed by grasses or crops. The roots have long been known to form an excellent poul-tice when mashed and mixed with corn meal, for reducing the hard-ness and inflamation o
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