Your weeds and your neighbor's : part 3 illustrated descriptive list of weeds . and fields. [ J It is hardly plentiful enough inthis State to consider it much of aweed, being included in this list prin-cipally for comparison with the otherforms described. Iiginia Thistle. 260 107. Pasture Thistle. (B.) Cnicus odoratus (MuM.), B. S. P. This large thistle much affected by young ladies, who makebeautiful pompons of the freshly opened flow-ers by stripping off the outer green scalesfrom the heads which allows them when dryto take the form of a soft downy ball. Thisspecies grows mostly in our glade
Your weeds and your neighbor's : part 3 illustrated descriptive list of weeds . and fields. [ J It is hardly plentiful enough inthis State to consider it much of aweed, being included in this list prin-cipally for comparison with the otherforms described. Iiginia Thistle. 260 107. Pasture Thistle. (B.) Cnicus odoratus (MuM.), B. S. P. This large thistle much affected by young ladies, who makebeautiful pompons of the freshly opened flow-ers by stripping off the outer green scalesfrom the heads which allows them when dryto take the form of a soft downy ball. Thisspecies grows mostly in our glade regions, butis also found on dry pasture lands and fieldsin the northern and eastern parts of the plant is very prickly, the heads arelarger than in any other of our species, andamply furnished with good size prickles andlarge leafy bracts at the base, the leaves arevery prickly, regularly scalloped, and thestem profusely branched. This species isreadily exterminated by cutting off the wholeplant before blooming, close below the crown Pasture Thistle. 0f the 108. CANADA THISTLE. (B.) Cnicus arvensis (Z.), Hoffm. This most execrable weed that has yet invaded the farms ofour country, is not a native of Canada as might be supposed fromits common name, but of Europe, where even as long ago as thetime of Linnaeu?, the first systematic Botanist of the world, it was considered Vitium agirorum apud nosprimarium est (the greatest pest of ourfields.) The plant is slender, grows 1 to 3feet high; has exceedingly prickly leaves,bears a large number of small rose-purpleflower heads in clusters at the summits of itsstem and branches, and is the lightest coloredof all the thistles. This thistle is one ofthose particularly aggressive weeds thathave the power of reproducing themselvesfrom the root as well as from the seed, andon that account as well as the extremevitality of the roots, it is very difficult toeradicate it when once it gains a footing. Canada Thistle. Its advent
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