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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

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SWEET GRASS (Hierochloa borealis , ^*.«) Plate 50
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GRE-EN FOXTAIL iSeraria vind is ./av^hc i PLATE 50. GREEN FOXTAIL. Setaria viridis, Beauv. Other English name : Pigeon Grass. Other Latin names: Chwtochloa viridis (L) Scribn.; Ixophorus viridis(L) Nash; Chamceraphis viridis. Porter. Introduced. AnnuaL Stems several, erect, simple or branched frombelow, 1 to 2 feet high, leafy. Panicle condensed into a cylindrical com-pound spike. Spikelets single-flowered, or with a perfect flower and aneutral flower beside it, inside 3 empty glumes or scales, awnless, but witha cluster of -3 to 6 persistent green bristles below the florets on the slinrtpeduncle. The tough hard husk of the seed is about jV of an inchlong, oval, with the glume or outer scale rounded and folded over the highly,polished rounded edges of the pale or inner scale, which is flattened in Ihemiddle. Both scales of the husk are roughened crosswise with narrow ridges.The colour is very variable, according to the degree of ripeness—yellow, gray,brown or purplish, the darker se

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