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the blossoms very small, with silvery white, five-parted calyx, 

 subtended by three dry, white, papery bracts ; the pistillate 

 flowers are densely white-woolly at the base and much longer 

 than the bracts. Seed small, nearly globular, with valveless 

 utricle, included in the calyx. (Fig. 79.) 



Means of control 



Close cutting or pulling in early summer before any seed has 

 matured. Enrichment and cultivation of the ground, providing 

 humus which will enable the soil to retain moisture and support 

 better plants. 



FRCELICHIA 

 Frcelichia floridana, Moq. 



Native. Annual. Propagates by seeds. 

 Time of bloom: June to September. 

 Seed-time: July to November. 

 Range : Southern Wisconsin and Minnesota 



to Colorado, southward to Texas and 



Florida. 

 Habitat : Dry, sandy soil ; cultivated crops, 



fields, waste places. 



An unpleasant, woolly-hairy plant, closely 

 related to the Rough Pigweed and nearly as 

 troublesome, intruding in all sorts of crops 

 and, by its long flowering season, compelling 

 late tillage. 



Stem rather slender, erect, one to three 

 feet tall, with a few ascending branches 

 near the base, or often simple, leafless near 

 the top. Leaves opposite, rather thick, 

 narrowly lance-shaped, sessile, or the lower- 

 most ones somewhat spatulate and tapering 

 to margined petioles, entire, downy on the 

 under side. Flowers very small, perfect, 

 three-bracted, on densely crowded spikes 



disposed oppositely in branching panicles; FJ(J 80 . _ Frcelichia 

 calyx densely woolly, tubular, nve-toothed (Frcelichia floridana). 

 at the apex, and has irregular toothed wings x J. 



