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Fig. 7. 



Lamb's Quarteks, or Goose foot. 



Chen(ypodiu7n album (L). 



An annual weed widely distributed in cultivated land. It grows 

 to a height of from 2 to 6 feet. The stem is grooved and much 

 branched. The leaves are whitish green below and dark green above. 

 The flowers are inconspicuous and greenish in color. 



The seed (Fig. 7, a.) is black and shining, len^-shaped and roand, 

 about 1-16 in. in diameter. 



Time of flowering, June-October. 



Time of seeding, August-October. 



Distribution — by seeds, especially as an impurity in clover and 

 grass seeds. 



Eradication. Late cultivation is especially neces-ary in com- 

 bating this weed, as it flowers and seeds till very late in the season. 

 The land should be gang-plowed shallow and harrowed immediately 

 after harvest, and cultivated at intervals until late in the fall, when 

 it may be plowed or ribbed up for a hoed crop the following spring 

 Subsequent treatment the same as for Foxtail (Fig. 1.) 



