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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Fig. 209 (183), 



Great Burdock. Arctium Lappa L. A large, fine-wooly, coarse, biennial, 1-2 ni. 

 high; leaves large mostly heart shaped; heads clustered, 3-5 cm. broad, the outside 

 scales hooked at the top making a formidable bur; flowers purple. 



So far asjthe writer has observed, there are no plants of this species in the state, the 

 following species having heretofore passed for this one. Introduced from Europe. 



