. Weeds and weed seeds illustrated and described [microform]. Weeds; Mauvaises herbes; Mauvaises herbes; Weeds. 54 WEEDS AND WEED SEEDS. Common Plantain (Plnntwio major L.) is a native perennial which occurs throunliout the Dominion, jjenerally in rich, moist soil, often in lawns and door- yards. Hootstock short and thick, hearing many thick-spreading roots and a large tuft of dark green, oval, long-stalked, coarsely-toothed, spreading or upward curving leaves, strongly nerved underneath, and several dense spikes, 'â i to 12 inches long, of inconspicuous tlowers with purple stamens, t^a'd caps
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. Weeds and weed seeds illustrated and described [microform]. Weeds; Mauvaises herbes; Mauvaises herbes; Weeds. 54 WEEDS AND WEED SEEDS. Common Plantain (Plnntwio major L.) is a native perennial which occurs throunliout the Dominion, jjenerally in rich, moist soil, often in lawns and door- yards. Hootstock short and thick, hearing many thick-spreading roots and a large tuft of dark green, oval, long-stalked, coarsely-toothed, spreading or upward curving leaves, strongly nerved underneath, and several dense spikes, 'â i to 12 inches long, of inconspicuous tlowers with purple stamens, t^a'd capsules oval, divid- ing about the middle. The seed is about ._, , of an inch long, greenish-brown, variable in" size an number in the cap- sule (which varies from 8 to Iti), rounded on the outer face, angular on the inner scar-bearing face; scar pale and cons))icuous. The surface of the .seed is finely netted with dark brown broken waved lines, which radiate from the scar. The seeds are a common impurity in timothy and clover seed. Plantain occurs in various forms, some of which niav be distinct in<licate(l by the difference in habit of growth and degree of hairi- It is found throughout the Dominion, generally in rich moist soils.. 0.« Common species, tv ness. It ommon Plan- of a paler or Pale Plantain {I'lnnlaijo Rwjilii Dene.) often occurs with ( tain. It is a rather larger plant with more erect, smooth leaves yellowish green, the leaf-stalks purple at the base. The spikes are longer and the flowers less crowded, the ca|)sules more pointed, 4 to '.(-seeded, opening below the middle. The seed is of the same anguhir sha|)e as that of the Common I'lantain but about twice as large and nearly black, with the surface inerely roughened, not lined and netted. It is very common 0 in timothy and alsike seed, even more so than Common I'lan- tain seed. Bracted Plantain (I'hutdiin mixtala .Michx.) is a western annual which is rather rare in Canada, although its seeds .are occasi