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Dead nettle (Lamium), Purslane, 



Hemp nettle (Galiqpsis'), Mallow, 



Elecampane, Darnel, 



Plantain, Poison hemlock, 



Motherwort, Hop-clover, 



Stramonium, Yarrow, 



Catnip, Wild radish, 



Blue-weed, Wild parsnip, 



Stick-seed, Chiccory, 



Hound's-tongue, Live-forever, 



Henbane, Toad-flax, 



Pigweed, Sheep-sorrel, 



Quitch grass, May-weed. 



and others less noxious. To offset this list we have- 

 given Europe the vilest of all weeds, a parasite that 

 sucks up human blood, tobacco. Now if they catch, 

 the Colorado beetle of us, it will go far toward pay- 

 ing them off for the rats and the mice, and for other 

 pests in our houses. 



The more attractive and pretty of the British, 

 weeds, as the common daisy, of which the poets have 

 made so much, the larkspur, which is a pretty corn- 

 field weed, and the scarlet field-poppy which flowers 

 all summer, and is so taking amid the ripening grain, 

 have not immigrated to our shores. Like a certain 

 sweet rusticity and charm of European rural life, 

 they do not thrive readily under our skies. Our flea- 

 bane (Erigenon Canadensis) has become a common 

 road-side weed in England, and a few other of our 

 native less known plants have gained a foothold in 

 the Old World. Our beautiful jewel-weed (Impa- 

 tiens) has recently appeared along certain of the Eng- 

 lish rivers. 



