Your weeds and your neighbor's : part 3 illustrated descriptive list of weeds . forkedspikes of minute yellowish-green flowers ; is ageneral habitant of rich fields, where, if leftto itself it forms a dense growth choking outmost other plants. It will yield to frequentcutting which should be done before the topsflower. This species is especially enjoyed byhorses and hogs, which seem to find in it atonic bitter pleasant to their palates. Hall Rag-weed. 88. Rag-weed. (A.) Ambrosia artemisiaefolia, £,. A low omnipresent species with doubly divided leaves, manybranches, and numerous spikes of gree
Your weeds and your neighbor's : part 3 illustrated descriptive list of weeds . forkedspikes of minute yellowish-green flowers ; is ageneral habitant of rich fields, where, if leftto itself it forms a dense growth choking outmost other plants. It will yield to frequentcutting which should be done before the topsflower. This species is especially enjoyed byhorses and hogs, which seem to find in it atonic bitter pleasant to their palates. Hall Rag-weed. 88. Rag-weed. (A.) Ambrosia artemisiaefolia, £,. A low omnipresent species with doubly divided leaves, manybranches, and numerous spikes of greenish yellow flowers. This isone of the very few weeds the vulgar name of which is rag-weed is the commonest weed of the stubble field, and canonly be subdued by constant and careful cultivation. Sheep ap-pear to be very fond of it, and in some counties of this State it isharvested and stacked to serve as a winter fodder for them (see?chapter on Weeds as Fodder for Stock in part 2 of this bulletin.) The medical uses of this plant are but slight, the principal. 251 being as a bitter astringent for diarrhoea (30), and summer com-plaint (224). It has met with some uses in fevers (181), and inMaryland was once used as a substitute for quinine, but with littlesuccess. It is claimed to be a successful application to partspoisoned by poison ivy, if rubbed in until the skin is discolored byits juice. Of late years much attention has been called to the species ofthis genus—especially this and the preceding plant—as being,through their pollen, the cause of hay-fever, many people affectedwith this troublesome disorder laying the charge direct. It is truethat when the pollenation of this plant is begun, this disorder gen-erally commences in those people subject to it, and only ceases whenthe plants are out of flower. We have had the pleasure of curingseveral patients with this disease, all of whom had asthmanic symp-toms at the height of the trouble, with drop doses of the
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