Your weeds and your neighbor's : part 3 illustrated descriptive list of weeds . 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
Your weeds and your neighbor's : part 3 illustrated descriptive list of weeds . 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 of caked breasts. The leaves are said todraw out the poison when applied to places bitten or stung by rep-tiles or insects (4). The juice of the root is also said to be a sooth-ing medicine in consumption (160). SEDGE FAMILY. 184. Galingale. (A. or P.) Cyperus Plants of low moist groundand ditches characterized by theirgrass-like leaves and terminalbranching clusters of peculiar flat-tish cheat-like fruits on cylindricalor triangular stems. These are allplants of low grounds, which canonly be cleared of them with profitby proper underdrainage. Galingale. 185. Fovert3r Grass. (P.) Ehocharis tenuis(Willd.), Schult. Another rush-like form quite similar in general appearace toweed 181, but with harsher leafless scapes surmounted by verysmall purplish heads of minute flowers, the whole springing from amatted running root stalk. The treatment of lands infested withthis weed should be the same as that for 181. Scirpus, Bulrush is a well known formin this family growing in clumps in wetmeadows and along runs where good grasscan not thrive. Locations infested withthis weed need thorough drainage. Theonly measure through which such landscould possibly be rendered pr
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