212 EOS ACE AE (ROSE FAMILY) 



branches, six inches to a foot high, all armed with sharp prickles. 

 Leaves pinnately compound, with three to seven long-ovate or 

 rhombic leaflets, on very slender and often prickly petioles, rather 

 thin, prominently veined, finely double-toothed, dark green, 

 taking on a gorgeous red coloring in autumn. Flowers in terminal 

 clusters, or occasionally solitary, about an inch broad, with five- 

 parted calyx and five obovate, white petals ; stamens many ; 

 pistils many, closely set on a succulent "core" or torus which 

 elongates as they mature, each becoming a small pulpy drupelet, 

 containing one achene. These drupelets cohere and form the 

 fruit, black, sweet, juicy, often an inch long, dropping readily 

 from the stems when ripe. (Fig. 153.) 



Means of control 



The vines should be cut close to the ground, or, better, spudded 

 off below the surface, before the fruit is formed, and then piled and 

 burned. A handful of salt or a little kerosene on the cut surfaces is 

 discouraging to new growth. 



TALL HAIRY AGRIMONY 



Agrimdnia gryposepala, Wallr. 

 (Agrimbnia hirsuta, Bicknell) 



Native. Perennial. Propagates by seeds. 



Time of bloom: June to August. 



Seed-time: August to October. 



Range : Nova Scotia and Maine to Minnesota, southward to North 



Carolina. Also on the Pacific Coast. 

 Habitat: Woodland borders, thickets along streams. 



One of the many "stickseed" plants that vex the wool-grower, 

 and rather common in the rocky brush-lot pastures usually given 

 over to sheep. Stem two to four feet tall, slender, and covered 

 with fine, spreading hairs. Roots fibrous and clustered. Leaves 

 deep green, pinnatifid, mostly with seven sometimes five or nine 

 large, coarsely toothed, oblong to obovate leaflets, and three 

 pairs of smaller ones interposed between them ; petioles hairy, 

 with large, coarsely toothed stipules at the base. Flowers in long, 

 slender, spicate racemes, the rachis glandular-hairy, interspersed 



