346 WEEDS OF AGRICULTURE. 



5. COMMON BUTTER-BUR, or Pestilent-Wort {tuasi- 



lago peta sites). Moist meadows. 



6. COMMON RAGWORT, Ragweed, Staggerwort, St. 



James's Wort, Seggrum, Scotch Canker-weed, Stink- 

 ing Elshinder, &c. &c. (se/iecio Jacobaa). 



7. COMMON DAISY, Bairn Warts, Sec. {bellis perennis). 



8. COMMON BLACK KNAP-WEED, Black Mat- 

 Fellow, Bull-weed, Cock-Heads, Sec. {centaurea nigra). 

 It is said that horses are particularly fond of the hay 



of which this plant forms a part. 



9. BROAD-LEAVED DOCK (rumex obtusifolius). 



10. ORCHIS. Of this weed there are several species, viz. 



Orchis mascula, orchis maculala. These two orchises 

 furnish the tubers for the manufacture of salep. Orchis 

 latifolia, orchis morio, orchis pj/ramidalis : they are chiefly 

 confined to damp pastures that require draining. Man- 

 orchis, red-lead, and frog-wort, are the only English 

 names we have heard given to these weeds in damp 

 pastures, where they are but little formidable. In the 

 flower garden they are considered interesting orna- 

 ments. 



11. COMMON COW-PARSNIP, Hog-weed (heracleum 

 sphondylium). Leaves pinnate ; leaflets pinnatifid, cut, 

 and serrated. This very large and cumbrous plant 

 usurps a large share of the surface of moist meadows, 

 and sheds abundance of seeds. It is checked by 

 grazing late in the spring with sheep. 



12. SEDGE (carei). This is a numerous family of coarse, 

 grass- like plants, chiefly confined to damp, sour soils ; 

 they are innutritious, and but seldom or ever touched 

 by cattle. To enumerate all the different species of 

 this genus, of which there are upwards of fifty, would 

 here be of little or no utility. The essential family, or 



