The Bulletin 



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Stinking Mayweed. 



Anthrmis Cotula L. 



Other names are Dog Fennel, 

 Dog's Chamomile. A membor of 

 the Sunflower family, closely re- 

 lated to the Daisy. An ill-smell- 

 ing, much branched annual, one 

 to two feet high. Leaves finely 

 divided. Flower heads white with 

 a yellow center, about one inch 

 wide, rays ten to eighteen. Seeds 

 small, brown, oblong, or obovoid, 

 with ten longitudinal warty ribs. 

 Throughout the State. A vile 

 weed around dwellings, farm- 

 steads and in fields. June to 

 November. 



CONTROL 



Tliis is a bad weed in pastures, 

 but never bothers the cultivated 

 fields. As it comes from the seed 

 each year, the preventing of seed- 

 ing will destroy it. 





No. 12. STINKI.Nn M.\YWEED OR 

 ANTUK.MIS COTULA L. 



