. Wild flowers of Canada [microform]. Wild flowers; Flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Fleurs; Botanique. C ^- I PI/ATE aSs. WILD PEPPERGRASS. LEPIDIUM VIRGINICUM. (CRESS FAMILY.) .Iiniual,- braHclling. ,ii slifUli piihr <,H,ilr, (,i/t, i.,;,!,, ilioil /'rliolf. rivl-lnitfs lyrdrpmn liJid,,a«Unr anjitul,-d. sharl-W irpLT};ra ;s, that small weed so common in fields and roadsides. Its first tiny while green blossoms open with the (lowers ol' May. The Golden rods and Ast( s find it still in flower. Often it perseveres nntil the first frost of autumn cuts sliort
. Wild flowers of Canada [microform]. Wild flowers; Flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Fleurs; Botanique. C ^- I PI/ATE aSs. WILD PEPPERGRASS. LEPIDIUM VIRGINICUM. (CRESS FAMILY.) .Iiniual,- braHclling. ,ii slifUli piihr <,H,ilr, (,i/t, i.,;,!,, ilioil /'rliolf. rivl-lnitfs lyrdrpmn liJid,,a«Unr anjitul,-d. sharl-W irpLT};ra ;s, that small weed so common in fields and roadsides. Its first tiny while green blossoms open with the (lowers ol' May. The Golden rods and Ast( s find it still in flower. Often it perseveres nntil the first frost of autumn cuts sliort its career. It comes early aiid sta\s late, ripening many minute .seeds and spreading ever farther afield. The Peppergrass is said to be an emigrant from the Southern States. If so, it has made itself well at home northward. The whole plant has the pleasantly p\ingent taste .so common in tlie family to which it belongs, and to this jx-jipery 11a\or it owes its name. Th; root especially abmuids in the acrid oil which is so ])leasing to the palate in Mustard, Horse-radish and The Peppergrass somewhat resembles in appearance its cousip the Shc'iilienl's Purse. Like the latter, it flowers through a great part of the It he easily distinguished, h ) , by its more bushy :.^rowth, and its rounde-1, rather than triangular, seed-pods. Lepidium, the botanical name of the J'eppergrass, is from a (ircek word signifying " a small ; There are many species in the % PI,ATE a86. â j_ LAMB'S QUARTERS. CHENOPODIIJM (GOOSEFOOT FAMILY.) strut ftfft. much f'tttnchftt, OHf lo lix feet hig,h. stt ialf, aUthrnus but ti 'lally " metllly" giatiitlat ; Ifu iii iottifiii -nrtitf ami ititfinlitt-lobrtl ot t<wtfifii, nfiffrmosl linear, fntirY, gla Niima ; Jlotifrs ,, s fffniilt, ptj'fcl. in panitM spiki's ; i-itlyx fivr-tobfii, lottos cattnatf. any plant is more commonplace in external appearance than the "Lamb's Quarters
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