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WEEDS OF THE FARM AND GARDEN 



branched stems, rarely a foot high, somewhat compressed ; 

 leaves flat or simply folded, linear, about six inches long, 



Fig. 90. Green foxtail (Setaria <viridis). (U. S. Dept. Agrl.) 



very finely toothed on the margins; sheaths, generally 

 longer than the internodes, hairy along the margins and 

 at the throat ; burs containing the spikelets, six to twenty, 



