3'2S WEEDS or AGIIICTJLTUTIE. 



struction of colt's-fcot equally apjjlies to corn bindweed. 

 Paring and burning the surface, however, recommended in 

 the former case, will not be advisable here, as the light sandy 

 nature of the soil in which bindweed prevails would suffer 

 injury in its texture from the process. But a naked summer 

 fallow, with due attention to deep ploughing, and careful 

 forking out of the roots of the weed, are essential to begin 

 with, and the row culture and persevering use of the hoc 

 ever afterwards followed. 



1. WILD CARROT {daitcus carota). Bristles of the seeds 



slender; leaflets pinnatifid, with linear-lanceolate acute 

 segments ; when in seed concave. Root biennial ; 

 flowering in June and July. 



2. HEDGE PARSLEY {torilis infesta), sometimes called 



Dill. Umbels of many close rays ; general bracteas 

 scarcely any ; leaflets pinnatifid ; branches spreading. 

 The seeds are destitute of ribs ; covered irregularly with 

 ascending, awl-shaped, shortish, rigid yjrickles, or partly 

 with blunt, prominent, crowded granulations ; thajiaic- 

 ture channelled, close. 



3. COMMON FOOL'S PARSLEY. Lesser Hemlock 



(cBthnsa cynapium). Leaves uniform ; leaflets wedge- 

 shaped, decurrent, with lanceolate segments. Root 

 annual ; flowering in July and Augu.st. 



The seeds are ovate, moderately convex, with five rounded, 

 acutely-keeled ribs, and deep acutangular interstices ; their 

 inner surfaces dilated, flat-marked with a pair of coloured 

 longitudinal lines, and closely pressed together. 



4. SPINGEL or FENNEL {meum fccniculum), or Connnon 



Fennel. Leaves triply pinnate ; leaflets awl-shaped, 

 drooping; bracteas none. Root biennial ; flowering in 

 July and August. 



The names wild carrot and dill arc often applied by hus- 

 bandmen to the above four plants generally ; the third, or 



