DESCRIPTIVE MANUAL 

 Corn Cockle (Agrostemma githago L.) 



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Description. — A hairy, annual weed, clothed with long, soft hairs ; 

 leaves linear-lanceolate, acute or long-acuminate ; flowers purple and 



Fig. 71. Corn Cockle (Agrostemma githago). In grain fields. 

 (After Clark and Fletcher.) 



