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A List containing Some of the Commoner Weeds of 

 Massachusetts. 



CoMJiON Name. 

 Barn-yard grass, 

 Carpet weed, 

 Charlock, 

 Chess, cheat, 

 Cockle, 

 Cocklebur, 

 Couch-grass. 

 Crab or finger grass, 

 Daisy lleabane, 

 Dandelion, 

 Green pigeon-grass, 

 Fall dandelion. 

 Horse-weed, fleabane. 

 Pigweed, 



Orange hawkweed, 

 Pepper-grass, 

 Pigweed, redroot. 

 Plantain, 

 Purslane, pusley, 

 Roman wormwood, 

 Ramsted, butter and eggs, 

 Rib-grass, English plantain, 

 Shepherd's-purse, 

 Sorrel, 

 Wild carrot. 

 Yellow daisy. 

 White daisy, 

 Three finger. 

 Dyer's green-weed, 

 Money-wort, 



Botanical Name. 

 Panicuni crusgalli. 

 Molhcgo verticillata. 

 Brassica Sinajnstrum. 

 Bromus secalinus. 

 Lychnis Oithago. 

 Xanthium Canadense. 

 Agropijron rei^ens. 

 Panicum sangumale. 

 Erigeron annuus. 

 Taraxacxcm officionale. 

 Setaria viridis. 

 Leontodon autumnalis. 

 Erigeron Ccmadense. 

 Chenopodium album. 

 Hieraciuni cmrantiactim. 

 Lepidiiim Virginicum. 

 Amaranthus retrojlexus. 

 Plantago major. 

 Poriulaca oleracea. 

 Ambrosia artemisiaefolia. 

 Linaria linaria. 

 Plantago lanceolata, 

 Bursa bursa-pasioris. 

 Rumex aceiosella. 

 Daucus carota. 

 Rudbeckia hirta. 

 Leucanlhemum vulgare. 

 Panicum glabrum. 

 Genista tinctoria. 

 Lysimachia nummularia. 



Of this list of thirty plants six are troublesome on lawns ; four 

 in gardens, twelve in hay fields, and eight are unsightly plants in 

 waste places. Of course such a classification is not wholly accurate, 

 as some of the weeds recorded as growing in waste places are at 

 times found in poor grass land. 



Methods of Eradication. 

 No general methods can be employed for the extermination of 

 weeds inasmuch as the individual characteristics of the plant must 

 be taken into consideration. Various kinds of cultivation have 

 been devised to meet the requirements of weed, and an attempt has 

 even been made to kill weeds by powerful electrical machines. 

 Such appliances are not practical, as the enormous voltage of twenty 



