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FIG. 7. 



LAMB'S QUARTERS, OR GOOSEFOOT. 

 Chenopodium 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 unconspicuous and greenish in color. 



The seed (Fig 7, a.) is black and shining, lens-shaped, and round, 

 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 necessary in combating 

 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 treat- 

 ment the same as for Foxtail (Fig. 1). 



