File:Farm weeds of Canada (1906) (14589605589).jpg

Identifier: farmweedsofcana00clar (find matches)
Title: Farm weeds of Canada
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Clark, George Harold, 1872- Fletcher, James, 1852-1908 Criddle, Norman Canada. Dept. of Agriculture
Subjects: Weeds Weeds Botany
Publisher: Ottawa : Published by direction of the Minister of Agriculture
Contributing Library: ASC - York University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries

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CURLE-D DOCK (Rumex cris p (j s,/.. i Plate 45
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SHEEP SORREL IRumex acel-ose I la ,/. ) PLATE 45. SHEEP SORREL. Rumex Acelcsella, L.Other English names: Sour-grass, Field Sorrel, Red Sone^ Introduced. Perennial, verj- persistent by extensively spreading yel-low fleshy rootstoeks. Stems slender, 6 to 18 inches, erect or ascendinp,ibranched above. Leaves with silvery 2-piirted stipules at the base, narrow-ly arrow-head-shaped, entire, 1 to 4 inches long, quite smooth and ratherfleshy, on long petioles. Flowers uunierous iu panifled racemes, of twokinds on separate plants : the male or anther-beariiig flowers have conspicu-ous anthers; the female or pistillate flowers are much less showy and are tip-ped with three tiny crimson feathery stigmas. Seeds (achenes) (Plate 54,fig. 38—natural size and enlarged 8 times), as they occur among clover andgrass seeds, generally covered by the three larger conspicuously veined calyxsegments, which fit closely over the seed. The three small segments whiclialternate with these, fit over the angles

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