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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



A List containing 



Common Name. 



Baru-yard grass, 



Carpet weed, 



Charlock, 



Chess, cheat. 



Cockle, 



Cocklebur, 



Couch-grass, 



Crab or finger grass, 



Daisy fleabane. 



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. 



Some of the Commoner Weeds of 

 Massachusetts. 



Botanical Name. 



Fanicum crusgalli. 

 Mollugo verticillata. 

 Brassica Sinapistrum. 

 Bromus secalinus. 

 Lychnis Githago. 

 Xanthium Canadense. 

 Agropyron repens. 

 Panicum sanguinale. 

 Erigeron annuus. 

 Taraxacum officionale. 

 Setaria viridis. 

 Leontodon autumnalis. 

 Erigeron Canadense. 

 Chenopodium album. 

 Hieraclum aurantiacum. 

 Lepidium Virginicum. 

 Amaranthus retroflexus. 

 Plantago major. 

 Portulaca oleracea. 

 Ambrosia artemisiaefolia. 

 Linaria linaria. 

 Plantago lanceolata. 

 Bursa bursa-pastoris. 

 Rumex acetosella. 

 Daucus carota. 

 Rudbeckia liirta. 

 Leucanthemum vulgare. 

 Paiiicum 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 extermina- 

 tion of weeds inasmuch as the individual characteristics of 



